Need help (badly) on installing Spark on CentOS6.3
 

Hi

Need help on installing Spark on my CentOS6.3 desktop. Already tried searching for steps but still no go.

I tried the steps here http://community.igniterealtime.org/.../196969#196969 but nothing happens.

Am I missing some steps here... Please help... Complete noob here...

Spark comes prepackaged with Java.

There is an RPM package available for download. Why are you not using that?

What steps have you actually taken specifically? Giving a link doesn't really tell what exactly you've tried. What error messages do you get when you run ./Spark?

Here's what i get when i "java -varsion"

java version "1.6.0_24"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.4) (rhel-1.49.1.11.4.el6_3-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

Please re-read my second post. I have edited it since you last posted likely.

i already tried using the RPM version and i got this error :

Spark-2.6.3.12555-1.x86_64 requires libodbc.so
Spark-2.6.3.12555-1.x86_64 requires libodbcinst.so

i already tried this command : yum install libstdc++.so.5

and when I do ./Spark nothing happens, no error whatsoever. it just immediately goes to prompt again.

Not a valid command. No package is named libstdc++.so.5 . That's a file name.
Please use : yum provides */libstdc++.so.5
The reply is the package name : compat-libstdc++-33
# yum install compat-libstdc++-33


But why not install Spark with yum ?
# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck <path-to-spark>/spark-2.6.3.rpm
.... or whatever the Spark package name is.
I.e. yum will also install all the dependencies.

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i just tried the "yum localinstall" and got this error :

Error: Package: Spark-2.6.3.12555-1.x86_64 (/spark-2.6.3)
Requires: libodbcinst.so
Error: Package: Spark-2.6.3.12555-1.x86_64 (/spark-2.6.3)
Requires: libodbc.so
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

i also tried using "--skip-broken" and it did complete the installation but nothing happened when I tried "./Spark", again no error just went to prompt again...

The package is for a 64bits OS. ( x86_64 ).

May be your CentOS 6 is 32bits ? ( i686 ).

This command will tell : uname -m

here's what i have :

[root@pc24 Spark]# uname -m
x86_64
[root@pc24 Spark]#

Thanks for helping me out!!!

OK, there is an error in the Spark-2.6.3.12555-1.x86_64 install files.

This will do :
# yum install unixODBC.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libX11.i686 libXau.i686 \
libXext.i686 libXi.i686 libXp.i686 libXtst.i686 libxcb.i686

# rpm -Uvh --nodeps spark-2.6.3.rpm

$ spark : The "Spark GUI" will open.

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it's working now!!! THANKS A BUNCH!!!!!!

one last thing... when I close the terminal, Spark also closes... is it suppose to do that?

one last thing... when I close the terminal, Spark also closes... is it suppose to do that?

That sometimes happens if an application doesn't properly handle that (in fact most applications are like that). You could create a .desktop shortcut add spark to $PATH and launch it from the launcher (Alt+F2) if you didn't want to launch it from a terminal. Your file manager might even be set up to launch it when you open the Spark script.

WoW thanks! I forgot all about the "create Launcher" option... Thanks again!

Or if you are using KDE, you can add Spark to your "start menu" by right
clicking the start menu and clicking "add items".