How To Install Spark on Mac os
1. Introduction
Today, I will introduce the way to install spark on mac os. I will achieve the calculation of the data of MovieLens, it is the part of my undergraduate project. The topic of my undergraduate project is Design and Implementation of Recommendation System Based on Collaborative Filtering Algorithm
. Because I choose MovieLens as my DataSet(190mb), so I have to use spark as analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Thus, it is neccessary to install Spark on mac os.
So, ler’s start.
2. Install Java JDK
We must install java JDK at first, we should download .dmg
from official website, the link is shown as follow:
The website is shown like this:
Choose MAC OS X x64
, then download it. When download process is finished, click .dmg
files, and follow hints to finish install process.
Then you can use command java -version
to confirm whether it is successful to install java JDK.
Aferwards, we start settle environment variables. First of all, we need to find profile
files, its path is /etc/profile
. We can use vim or something else to revise profile
, we must add the path of java into profile, you should add following text:
JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home"
export JAVA_HOME
CLASS_PATH="$JAVA_HOME/lib"
PATH=".$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin"
After you save profile, use command source /etc/profile
to make sure your revise to be valid. Finally, you can use following command to get the path of java:
$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home
From now, we can use java JDK on you mac os.
3. Install Scala
I will add details.