Question

Hello Guys I am trying to figure out why i am gettings this error when I am trying to run this API from Shell on my linux System.

[~/public_html/test/]# java -jar jodconverter-cli-2.2.2.jar Amritpal.doc sample.pdf

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/cli/CommandLineParser
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLineParser
    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: com.artofsolving.jodconverter.cli.ConvertDocument. Program will exit.

Answer 1

You need to do this in order to include the Apache Commons CLI library in your classpath:

java -cp '.:/path/to/cli.jar' -jar jodconverter-cli-2.2.2.jar x.doc y.pdf

If you’re on Windows, use a semicolon ; instead of the colon : in specifying the classpaths.