Cassandra Client Error

Problem:

Starting Cassandra Client

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/cassandra/cli/CliMain

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain

        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)

        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)

Could not find the main class: org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain.  Program will exit.

Solution:

                Set CASSANDRA_HOME=<path/to/cassandra/home>

Works for me.