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Installing Spark

Installing Spark - Scala Tutorial

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Installing Spark

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- [Instructor] Now it's time to install Spark. Here I've opened a browser and navigated to spark.apache.org. And from the main page, I'm going to select the Download option, and that will bring me to another page where I can choose from among several different downloads. And I'm just going to accept all of the defaults in terms of the Spark release, the package type, and the download type. And I'm going to click on the link that is provided here to download Spark. Now that Spark has finished downloading, I'm going to go over to my download directory and I have a compressed file here, so I'm going to open that. Now that creates a new folder, and this has a fairly long name so I'm going to rename this and I'm just going to call it Spark, which is sufficient for our purposes. Now also, Spark is now in my download directory. I'm just going to drag it over to my home directory. Okay, so now I have in my home directory, I have the Spark folder, so I'm going to move to my terminal window and…

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