I was having same issue then realized that the version of commons-io getting picked up was lower than what I need (2.4)....I need to Override the already managed version as below to get the right one picked up:

<dependency>
     <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
     <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
     <version>2.4</version>
 </dependency>

it started working now. I downloaded commons-io-2.4 from a different resource and imported to my project. Thanks

If you can use Maven or Gradle, then you can include the library as a dependency:

$ tree
.
|-- pom.xml
`-- src
    |-- main
    |   `-- java
    |       `-- test
    |           `-- App.java
    `-- test
        `-- java
            `-- test
                `-- AppTest.java

7 directories, 3 files

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
  <artifactId>myArtifact</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>deleteme</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
      <version>3.1</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

IntelliJ automatically adds the dependencies to the classpath.

If you open the pom.xml file as a new project in IntelliJ, the dependency will automatically be added to the classpath.

Edit

Otherwise, if you edit your project settings in IntelliJ, go to the modules section, and then the dependencies tab. You can add your dependencies there. See here.

This is the problem:

Copyimport org.apache.commons.math3;

That's trying to import a package - you can't do that. You have to either use a wildcard import:

Copyimport org.apache.commons.math3.*;

or import a specific type:

Copyimport org.apache.commons.math3.SomeTypeHere;

In your case it sounds like you actually want:

Copyimport org.apache.commons.math3.distribution.EnumeratedIntegerDistribution;

I've tried a sample class with just that import and the jar file downloaded from Apache, and it works fine.

You need to have the Commons IO Jar in the classpath when compiling, for example:

javac -cp .:path_to_commons_io_jar Main.java

Don't use Maven or Gradle if you can't even manage adding a JAR to your project manually.

You should acquire those JARs (containing .class byte code files, not .java source), add them a folder in your project named /lib, and add that directory as a JAR source location in your project. They'll be in the CLASSPATH then.

You need to add the /lib folder to an artifact when you run. Be sure you know how to do that as well.