(Much delayed) thank you Costin. Indeed, on Ubuntu, changing ES_CLASSPATH to include hadoop and hadoop/lib directories in /etc/default/elasticsearch (and exporting it in /etc/init.d/elasticsearch) and installing light plugin version did work.
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