I cant speak to the quick start , however I found the following very helpful when I was getting started.
http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/03/13/running-a-multi-broker-apache-kafka-cluster-on-a-single-node/ On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have tried to use kafka both building form source via gradle as well as > un tgz-ing the tarball. Either way, none of the scripts work in the way > described in the Quick Start section. > > Following is an example : > > 6:15:40/kafka:91 $bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/zookeeper/server/quorum/QuorumPeerMain > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) >
