Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile sbt/sbt-launch-0.13.5.jar - scala

Question

I have been trying to install spark using the tutorial and everytime I run the command sbt/sbt assembly, I get the error "Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile sbt/sbt-launch-0.13.5.jar"
I have tried everything: seperately adding the sbt file to the sbt folder in the spark folder, installing sbt individually, checking the download and reinstalling it over again, but in vain. Any advice about what I am doing wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

Ok, After playing around for a while I finally got it and hopefully this will work for you aswell. That tutorial builds spark, where they do provide prebuilt binaries. I'm using Spark 1.2.0 just as a note (1.4.1 wouldn't work for me)
This is on Ubuntu 15.04 but should work on 14.04 the same
1) Remove the following lines from your bashrc
export SCALA_HOME=/usr/local/src/scala/scala-2.10.4
export PATH=$SCALA_HOME/bin:$PATH
2) Remove and reinstall scala
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/src/scala
# The following line is only needed if you installed scala another way, if so remove the #
# sudo apt-get remove scala-library scala
wget http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/scala-2.11.7.deb
sudo dpkg -i scala-2.11.7.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install scala
3) Download PreBuilt Spark and extract
wget http://d3kbcqa49mib13.cloudfront.net/spark-1.2.0-bin-hadoop2.4.tgz
tar -xzvf spark-1.2.0-bin-hadoop2.4.tgz
4) Run spark-shell
cd spark-1.2.0-bin-hadoop2.4/
./bin/spark-shell
Sources (basically where I've read from, this solution has been trial and error)
https://chongyaorobin.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/step-by-step-of-installing-apache-spark-on-apache-hadoop/
https://gist.github.com/visenger/5496675

Answer 2

If you have downloaded spark package from http://d3kbcqa49mib13.cloudfront.net/spark-1.1.0.tgz then cross check file - "sbt/sbt-launch-0.13.5.jar". If it just contains small (5-6lines) html content then you need to download jar file manually. This html file just indicate that required jar file was not found. You may use follow following steps for centos:
Download jar manually:
wget http://dl.bintray.com/typesafe/ivy-releases/org.scala-sbt/sbt-launch/0.13.1/sbt-launch.jar ./sbt/sbt-launch-0.13.5.jar
Prevent automatic downloading of jar file:
sed -i '47,68s/^/#/' sbt/sbt-launch-lib.bash
Install spark again:
sbt/sbt assembly
It worked for me without altering scala installation. Hope it helps.

Answer 3

The sbt script does not download properly sbt-launch-0.13.5.jar because there must be something wrong with the URLs it is using. As a result the file that it downloads contains just an HTML header (wither 400 or 302 codes). Until a better solution becomes available, as a workaround I would download manually sbt-launch-0.13.5.jar beforehand.

Answer 4

In the SPARK_HOME/sbt/sbt-launch-lib.bash script replace line 53 to line 57 with following
if hash curl 2>/dev/null; then
(curl --fail --location --silent ${URL1} > ${JAR_DL} ||\
(rm -f "${JAR_DL}" && curl --fail --location --silent ${URL2} > ${JAR_DL})) && \
mv "${JAR_DL}" "${JAR}"
elif hash wget 2>/dev/null; then
(wget --quiet ${URL1} -O ${JAR_DL} ||\
(rm -f "${JAR_DL}" && wget --quiet ${URL2} -O ${JAR_DL})) &&\
mv "${JAR_DL}" "${JAR}"
else
Then try again, run the sbt assembly command
sbt/sbt assembly
Simplest method is install sbt manually as follows
download sbt deb file
wget http://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/sbt-0.13.5.deb
Then run
sudo dpkg -i sbt-0.13.5.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sbt
then build using
sbt assembly instead of sbt/sbt assembly from spark home folder

Answer 5

#Frozenfire, I'am not sure if it's possible but the Spark documentation Overview says :
For the Scala API, Spark 1.4.1 uses Scala 2.10. You will need to use a
compatible Scala version (2.10.x).
And I wonder if it would be the reason why you have this problem:
I'm using Spark 1.2.0 just as a note (1.4.1 wouldn't work for me)
Because you do :
sudo dpkg -i scala-2.11.7.deb
which downloads and installs scala-2.11.7.
I don't know but this might be a clue !
PS1: this is more a comment to Frozenfire's answer, but I can't comment because of a lack of reputation and I wanted to share this.
PS2: Building for Scala 2.11