Did you try sqoop version instead of sqoop -version? Also, try sqoop help once to see all the available commands.
From: apurva sharma [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 12:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Sqoop 1.4.3 with Hadoop 1.0.1 installation issue : NoClassDefFoundError Hi All, I am running into installation errors while installing Sqoop1.4.3 on a single node Hadoop cluster running Hadoop 1.0.1 Here are the installation steps I did: 1. Get the sqoop tarball cd /usr/local curl -O http://www.apache.org/dist/sqoop/1.4.3/sqoop-1.4.3.bin__hadoop-1.0.0.tar.gz 2. Unpack the file tar -zxvf sqoop-1.4.3.bin__hadoop-1.0.0.tar.gz 3. Set up a symlink ln -s /usr/local/sqoop-1.4.3.bin__hadoop-1.0.0/ /usr/local/sqoop 4. Add the following to bashrc export SQOOP_HOME=/usr/local/sqoop export PATH=$PATH:$SQOOP_HOME/bin 5. reload bashrc 6.. -bash-3.2$ sqoop-version Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/sqoop/Sqoop Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) Could not find the main class: org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop. Program will exit. There are links like : http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/sqoop-user/201207.mbox/%3ccah-_ydjzhkc3gsmf9ufazbbfa-l6dh0jnq7zr9tu0nhwj-0...@mail.gmail.com%3E but they are not entirely clear to me. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Apurva -- Regards, Apurva ______________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer:This email and any attachments are sent in strictest confidence for the sole use of the addressee and may contain legally privileged, confidential, and proprietary data. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender by replying promptly to this email and then delete and destroy this email and any attachments without any further use, copying or forwarding
