Installing Spark from binaries

Spark can be either built from the source code or precompiled binaries can be downloaded from http://spark.apache.org. For a standard use case, binaries are good enough, and this recipe will focus on installing Spark using binaries.

Getting ready

All the recipes in this book are developed using Ubuntu Linux but should work fine on any POSIX environment. Spark expects Java to be installed and the JAVA_HOME environment variable to be set.

In Linux/Unix systems, there are certain standards for the location of files and directories, which we are going to follow in this book. The following is a quick cheat sheet:

Directory

Description

/bin

Essential command binaries

/etc

Host-specific system configuration

/opt

Add-on ...

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