Installing Spark on Windows

Question

Hi. I am new to Hadoop and trying to learn Spark. I don't want to use Linux system. Can someone tell me how to install Spark on Windows machine?

Answer 1

Follow the below steps to install Spark on Windows:

Download Spark from the official website: http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html

After Downloading, extract the compressed file, you will have a folder extracted.

Copy this extracted file to C drive.

Next step is to set Environment Variables for Spark. Search for Environment Variables in the search bar of windows and click on it. Then follow the below screenshots:

Next, download winutils from this link: https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils

Download the same version as that of Spark.

Move this file to Spark folder\bin:

That’s it. Spark is installed. To run spark, open command prompt and run

> spark-shell

and to run Spark2, run:

> spark2-shell