Troubleshoot NoClassDefFoundError in Java

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This is due to your classpath, which will default to the current directory. When you run java Main from /home/user/program it finds the class in the current directory (since the package seems to be unset, meaning it is the default). Hence, it finds the class in /home/user/program/Main.class.

Running java /home/user/program/Main from /home tries to find the class in the classpath (the current directory) which will look in /home/home/user/program expecting to find the file Main.class containing a definition of the Main class with package .home.user.program.

Extra detail: I think the java
launcher is trying to be nice by
converting /-notation for a classname
to the .-notation; and when you run
java /home/user/program/Main it is
actually running java
.home.user.program.Main for you. This
is because you shouldn’t be specifying
a file, but a fully specified
classname (ie including package
specifier). And when a class has a package
java expects to find that class within a
directory structure that matches the package
name, inside a directory (or jar) in the
classpath; hence, it will try to look in
/home/home/user/program for the class file

You can fix it by specifying your classpath with -cp or -classpath:

java -cp /home/user/program Main

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