Followed instructions of Flume installation on line and received the following ERROR after the installation.

I have a Linux box running RedHat which will serve as Flume agent. I've installed Flume and Flume-Node on it, but I get the following ERROR message when I try to start Flume-node:

{prompt} sudo /etc/init.d/flume-node start
Starting Flume node daemon (flume-node): starting node, logging to /var/log/flume/flume-flume-node-storsrv5.lab.netapp.com.log
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/util/PlatformName
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName. Program will exit.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration

I also get ERROR for "flume dump console" command. {prompt}

flume dump console
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/util/PlatformName
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName. Program will exit.

Do I need to install Hadoop (CDH3) for Flume to work?!