Thank you all... I have installed Sqoop. I also installed mysql in ubuntu, and created a database called ranjith and table as ran.
ranjith@ranjith-System-Product-Name:~/sqoop-1.4.3$ bin/sqoop import -connect jdbc:mysql://localhost/ranjith --table ran -m 1
Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated.
13/03/23 21:43:55 INFO manager.MySQLManager: Preparing to use a MySQL streaming resultset.
13/03/23 21:43:55 INFO tool.CodeGenTool: Beginning code generation
13/03/23 21:43:55 ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load db driver class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load db driver class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:716)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.execute(SqlManager.java:605)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.execute(SqlManager.java:628)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.getColumnTypesForRawQuery(SqlManager.java:235)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.getColumnTypes(SqlManager.java:219)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.ConnManager.getColumnTypes(ConnManager.java:283)
at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.getColumnTypes(ClassWriter.java:1255)
at org.apache.sqoop.orm.ClassWriter.generate(ClassWriter.java:1072)
at org.apache.sqoop.tool.CodeGenTool.generateORM(CodeGenTool.java:82)
at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:390)
at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:476)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:145)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:181)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:220)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:229)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:238)
ranjith@ranjith-System-Product-Name:~/sqoop-1.4.3$
The possible work around i tried was, i downloaded the below jar and placed in the lib folder of sqoop, but still i get the same error...Kindly help me with this.
nagu.