http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/setting-up-a-cassandra-cluster-with-the-datastax-ami
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Eldad Yamin <elda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install Cassandra on Amazon EC2 without success, this is what > I did: > > Created new "Small" EC2 instance (this is just for testing), running Ubuntu > OS - custom AIM (ami-596f3c1c) from: > http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/11.04/release/ > Installed Java: > # sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" > # sudo apt-get update > # sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts > openjdk-6-jre > Upgraded: > # sudo apt-get upgrade > Downloaded Cassandra: > # cd /usr/src/ > # sudo wget > http://apache.mivzakim.net//cassandra/0.8.2/apache-cassandra-0.8.2-src.tar.gz > # sudo tar xvfz apache-cassandra-* > # cd apache-cassandra-* > Config (according to README.txt) > # sudo mkdir -p /var/log/cassandra > # sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/log/cassandra > # sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/cassandra > # sudo chown -R `whoami` /var/lib/cassandra > RUN CASSANDRA > # bin/cassandra -f > > The I got Exception: > "ubuntu@ip-10-170-31-128:/usr/src/apache-cassandra-0.8.2-src$ bin/cassandra > -f > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/cassandra/thrift/CassandraDaemon > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) > Could not find the main class: org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon. > Program will exit." > > Any idea what is wrong? > Thanks! -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com