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## Configuring Flink with Hadoop Classpaths

Flink will use the environment variable `HADOOP_CLASSPATH` to augment the
classpath that is used when starting Flink components such as the Client,
JobManager, or TaskManager. Most Hadoop distributions and cloud environments
will not set this variable by default so if the Hadoop classpath should be
picked up by Flink the environment variable must be exported on all machines
that are running Flink components.

When running on YARN, this is usually not a problem because the components
running inside YARN will be started with the Hadoop classpaths, but it can
happen that the Hadoop dependencies must be in the classpath when submitting a
job to YARN. For this, it's usually enough to do a

```
export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=`hadoop classpath`
```

in the shell. Note that `hadoop` is the hadoop binary and that `classpath` is an argument that will make it print the configured Hadoop classpath.

Document how to set HADOOP_CLASSPATH for Flink
[FLINK-8668] Document how to set HADOOP_CLASSPATH for Flink
