Error: Could not find or load main class org.red5.server.Bootstrap

[Jessica Nash]

Hello all-

 I am new to red5 and ubuntu. Everything I have read about installing red5 says download the tarball, extract anywhere, and then run the red5.sh. Server will start and goto IP/port and tada!

I am missing something, when I do this on Ubuntu Trusty 14... I keep getting the error:

Running on  Linux
Starting Red5
Error: Could not find or load main class org.red5.server.Bootstrap


Is there a place I need to set a path?

Thank you

Jessica

[Chris Allen]

Usual this sort of error has to do with an older version of Java installed on your machine. In other words, the Red5 classes are compiled with a higher version than your system has installed.

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[Mondain]

I run Ubuntu 14.04 with JDK 8. I would first make sure you grabbed one of the tarballs (tar.gz) from the releases section here:

https://github.com/Red5/red5-server/releases

Right now, I suggest milestone 5 here: https://github.com/Red5/red5-server/releases/tag/v1.0.7-M5

The red5.sh included will have the correct path for the red5-service.jar which contains the Bootstrap.class. 

[Jessica Nash]

So Thank You. I ended up removing the old version of red5 and  installing release 1.0.6. I also took your advice and did install Java8... however I cannot seem to get Ubuntu 14 to point to it with update alternatives. Still researching that one.

Thanks for the response. It got me thinking in the right direction

[Mondain]

Look at the stackoverflow ubuntu site, search for removing other java installs if using just jdk 8 will work for your other endeavors.

[Rajdeep Rath]

Well I am a Windows user but installed a Linux box for myself for red5 ffmpeg etc last year. Ubuntu 14 LTS.

Sharing my Java installation version info, if that helps.