I have set the variable in ~/.bashrc export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$HADOOP_CLASSPATH:/usr/lcoal/Hbase/lib/hbase-client-1.2.4.jar but when i compile the code java -cp $HADOOP_CLASSPATH:/home/hadoopuser/Downloads/myjar.jar com.bigdata.uniquecoder.WordCountClass It still gives me this error. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HBaseConfiguration at com.bigdata.uniquecoder.WordCountClass.main(WordCountClass.java:57) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 1 more Any help will be highly appreciated. ... View more