solr installation issue

Question

Hi I'm a fairly new programmer whos trying to install Solr on Mac osx 10.6.8.

I'm following this tutorial: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_1_0/tutorial.html

The only two requirements are a Solr release and Java 1.6 or better. I have installed Solr, and used java -version to see what my java version is, which is 1.6.0_33.

I have cd'd into the solr/solr/example folder, which works fine. Then I use java -jar start.jar as it says in the tutorial but get:

Unable to access jarfile start.jar

Why is this doing this? My java version is as up to date as it says it should be?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

If you're already in solr-4.1.0/example directory and you can't find any start.jar , there is a big chance that the solr copy on your machine is incomplete. Try to download it again and redo the steps.