Compilation error on Ubuntu/AWS #8

I'm getting the following compilation error when I try to set up Benchmark on an AWS Ubuntu instance:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/ILoggerFactory
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer$SLF4JLoggerFactoryProvider.get(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:873)
at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.lifecycles.PlexusLifecycleManager.getSLF4JLogger(PlexusLifecycleManager.java:231)
at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.lifecycles.PlexusLifecycleManager$2.injectProperty(PlexusLifecycleManager.java:111)
at org.sonatype.guice.bean.inject.BeanInjector.injectMembers(BeanInjector.java:53)
at com.google.inject.internal.MembersInjectorImpl.injectMembers(MembersInjectorImpl.java:128)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:117)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.access$000(ConstructorInjector.java:32)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector$1.call(ConstructorInjector.java:91)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProvisionListenerStackCallback$Provision.provision(ProvisionListenerStackCallback.java:100)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProvisionListenerStackCallback$Provision.provision(ProvisionListenerStackCallback.java:115)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProvisionListenerStackCallback.provision(ProvisionListenerStackCallback.java:55)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:89)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:259)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$3$1.call(InjectorImpl.java:990)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1043)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$3.get(InjectorImpl.java:986)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.getInstance(InjectorImpl.java:1025)
at org.sonatype.guice.bean.reflect.AbstractDeferredClass.get(AbstractDeferredClass.java:45)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderInternalFactory.provision(ProviderInternalFactory.java:84)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalFactoryToInitializableAdapter.provision(InternalFactoryToInitializableAdapter.java:52)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderInternalFactory$1.call(ProviderInternalFactory.java:70)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProvisionListenerStackCallback$Provision.provision(ProvisionListenerStackCallback.java:100)
at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.lifecycles.PlexusLifecycleManager.onProvision(PlexusLifecycleManager.java:138)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProvisionListenerStackCallback$Provision.provision(ProvisionListenerStackCallback.java:108)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProvisionListenerStackCallback.provision(ProvisionListenerStackCallback.java:55)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderInternalFactory.circularGet(ProviderInternalFactory.java:68)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalFactoryToInitializableAdapter.get(InternalFactoryToInitializableAdapter.java:45)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter$1.call(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:46)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1043)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.get(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:40)
at com.google.inject.Scopes$1$1.get(Scopes.java:59)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.get(InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.java:41)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$3$1.call(InjectorImpl.java:990)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1036)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$3.get(InjectorImpl.java:986)
at org.sonatype.guice.bean.locators.LazyBeanEntry.getValue(LazyBeanEntry.java:83)
at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.locators.LazyPlexusBean.getValue(LazyPlexusBean.java:49)
at org.sonatype.guice.bean.locators.EntryListAdapter$ValueIterator.next(EntryListAdapter.java:112)
at java.util.AbstractCollection.addAll(AbstractCollection.java:341)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getLifecycleParticipants(DefaultMaven.java:538)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:270)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.slf4j.ILoggerFactory
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy.loadClass(SelfFirstStrategy.java:50)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.unsynchronizedLoadClass(ClassRealm.java:259)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:235)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:227)
... 53 more

For info:

java -version
java version "1.7.0_80"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_80-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.80-b11, mixed mode)

mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.5
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.7.0_80, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.13.0-48-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

This is the default lowest level general-purpose Ubuntu image. I'll try with some of the other ones...