title: Solr Quickstart tutorial: "Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI"
body: <p>I am following the <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/quickstart.html" rel="nofollow">solr quickstart tutorial</a>, and I was unable to even make it halfway down the page before running into issues.</p>
  
  <p>I downloaded the tarball <a href="http://supergsego.com/apache/lucene/solr/6.0.0/" rel="nofollow">here</a> using wget, and then ran a tar -xvf on it.</p>
  
  <p>I attempted the VERY first command...</p>
  
  <pre><code>bin/solr start -e cloud -noprompt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And get hit with the error</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.solr.util.SolrCLI
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>I googled the error message, and found similar, but not the same, error messages. Please help.</p>