Solr Quickstart tutorial: "Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI"

Question

I am following the solr quickstart tutorial , and I was unable to even make it halfway down the page before running into issues.

I downloaded the tarball here using wget, and then ran a tar -xvf on it.

I attempted the VERY first command...

bin/solr start -e cloud -noprompt

And get hit with the error

Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI

To be honest, this is quite frustrating. Java is not my forte, so I am unsure what to do here. I was hoping this would be pretty plug and play, but I suppose not.

I googled the error message, and found similar, but not the same, error messages. Please help.

Answer 1

The issue here is not with Solr, solr is pretty much plug and play .

You have misaligned the instructions with download, Solr changed the way the binaries are organized and command line instructions . You have download binary with version 6.0 . while the instruction set you are using for 5.3 and that's exactly whats frustrating you .

Either download the solr 5.3.1 version Solr 5.3.1 Download or use instructions for 6.0 Solr 6.0 Instructions and you should be good to go.