How to setup Scala on Ubuntu

Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computational framework that is created to provide faster computational results. It is an in-memory computational engine, meaning the data will be processed in memory.

Spark supports various APIs for streaming, graph processing, SQL, MLLib. It also supports Java, Python, Scala, and R as the preferred languages. Spark is mostly installed in Hadoop clusters but you can also install and configure spark in standalone mode.

In this article, we will be seeing how to install Apache Spark in Ubuntu-based distributions.

Install Java and Scala in Ubuntu

To install Apache Spark in Ubuntu, you need to have Java and Scala installed on your machine. Most of the modern distributions come with Java installed by default and you can verify it using the following command.Install Apache Spark in Ubuntu

Install Apache Spark in Ubuntu$ java -version

If no output, you can install Java using our article on how to install Java on Ubuntu or simply run the following commands to install Java on Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install default-jre
$ java -version

Install Apache Spark in UbuntuNext, you can install Scala from the apt repository by running the following commands to search for scala and install it.

By default, Scala is available in the Ubuntu base repository. Now run the following command below to install the Scala programming language on your system:

$ sudo apt install scala
$ scala -version

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Scala. Thank you for using this tutorial to install Scala programming language on Ubuntu. For additional help or useful information, we recommend that you refer to the official website of Scala.