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+How to create a Slider package?
+
+Replace the placeholder tarball for Accumulo.
+  cp ~/Downloads/accumulo-1.5.1-bin.tar.gz package/files/
+  rm package/files/accumulo-1.5.1-bin.tar.gz.REPLACE
+
+Create a zip package at the root of the package (<slider enlistment>/app-packages/accumulo-v1_5/) 
+  zip -r accumulo_v151.zip .
+
+Verify the content using  
+  unzip -l "$@" accumulo_v151.zip
+
+While appConfig.json and resources.json are not required for the package they work
+well as the default configuration for Slider apps. So its advisable that when you
+create an application package for Slider, include sample/default resources.json and
+appConfig.json for a minimal Yarn cluster.
diff --git a/app-packages/hbase-v0_96/README.txt b/app-packages/hbase-v0_96/README.txt
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+How to create a Slider package?
+
+Replace the placeholder tarball for Accumulo.
+  cp ~/Downloads/hbase-0.96.1-hadoop2-bin.tar.gz package/files/
+  rm package/files/hbase-0.96.1-hadoop2-bin.tar.gz.REPLACE
+
+Create a zip package at the root of the package (<slider enlistment>/app-packages/hbase-v0_96/) 
+  zip -r hbase-v096.zip .
+
+Verify the content using  
+  unzip -l "$@" hbase-v096.zip
+
+While appConfig.json and resources.json are not required for the package they work
+well as the default configuration for Slider apps. So its advisable that when you
+create an application package for Slider, include sample/default resources.json and
+appConfig.json for a minimal Yarn cluster.