Hadoop Error Could not find or load main class com sun tools javac Main

Question

I am trying to compile my java file using hadoop but when i do that, i get the following error:

Error: Could not find or load main class com.sun.tools.javac.Main

How to solve this?

Answer 1

It looks like the path is not set right. Try this:

export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar