Installing - Apache Spark on macOS Sierra

Installing - Apache Spark on macOS Sierra

This is my step by step guide to installing Apache Spark 2.0.0 on macOS Sierra.

Pre-Requisirtes

Hardware

  Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1

  Processor Name: Intel Core i7

  Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

  L3 Cache: 4 MB

  Memory: 16 GB

Software

OS: macOS Sierra - OS X 10.12. - pre-release version

Package Manager: Home Brew - 1.18

Big Data: Hadoop

Cluster Computing Framework: Apache Spark 2.0.0

Installation

Install Xcode 8.0.

Xcode can be updated from

  https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/

If 8.0 is installed, you may need to:

  sudo xcode-select --switch /path/to/Xcode-beta.app

bash-3.2$ sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode-beta.app 

Install Home Brew

Open a terminal in MAC.
CMD + Space & type Terminal or open terminal from launcher

Install Spark

bash-3.2$ brew install spark

==> Auto-updated Homebrew!

Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).

==> Updated Formulae

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Warning: You are using OS X 10.12.

We do not provide support for this pre-release version.

You may encounter build failures or other breakages.

Please create pull-requests instead of filing issues.

==> Using the sandbox

==> Downloading https://github.com/holman/spark/archive/v1.0.1.tar.gz

==> Downloading from https://codeload.github.com/holman/spark/tar.gz/v1.0.1

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🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/spark/1.0.1: 5 files, 6.3K, built in 3 seconds

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