As I know, the demos are not compiled by default in the release (because they show how you use Lucene and are so included as .java source files in the binary distribution). You have to build the demos using ANT.
Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > -----Original Message----- > From: nga pham [mailto:nga.p...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:37 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Getting started with Lucene > > Hi, I have a project that involve Lucene. > Currently I, > 1) downloaded Lucene-2.4.1. into my CentOS 4.7 box. > 2) succesfullly downloaded java, version 6. > 3) successfully completed setting CLASSPATH > > as I ran the command : java org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles > > I get an error saying: > Exception in thread :main: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/lucene/demo/SearchFiles > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native > Method) > ect. > Could not find the main class. org.apache.lucene.demo.SearchFiles. > Program > will exit. > > > Thank you, > Nga P. > > note: I think I am in your mailing list --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org