I am trying to run kafka on windoes 10 but erros shows Error: Could not find or load main class Files\kafka\libs\activation-1.1.1.jar;C:\Program

Question

I am trying to install and run kafaka locally but it is showing the error it could no load activation class

Answer 1

You have an unquoted path. Some where you have a path like C:\Program Files\Path\To\File.jar

It needs to be quoted as "C:\Program Files\Path\To\File.jar"

The other option is to put your Kafka installation into a simpler path e.g. C:\kafka\...

This is one of the old annoyances of Windows paths and some of the Apache Software Foundation "batch" files.