Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/internal/HasIdentity

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Hi All,

I am getting this error on executing my appium script. How to resolve this issue

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/internal/HasIdentity
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.(AndroidDriver.java:41)
at conquest.login.main(login.java:28)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.openqa.selenium.internal.HasIdentity
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
… 26 more

Appium Version: 1.4.16.1

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your appium version is 2 years old (20 Nov 2015) while OS version you are testing in most cases not more then 1 year old. pls move to latest.

also you did not mention code that cause this. it will be helpfull.

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Oh but it does not give me any update on launching as it says no latest version.

Can you give me the URL for the latest appium version so that I can download and reverify above issue as may be caused due to the version issue

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and my operating OS is windows

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install appium via npm (Appium v1.6.5)

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can you help me the steps to install the same on windows

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we can install same via command line on windows.

npm install -g appium

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first install nodeJS. then in command line “npm install -g appium@beta” for latest appium