Why does spark-submit and spark-shell fail with “Failed to find Spark assembly JAR. You need to build Spark before running this program.”?

Question

I was trying to run spark-submit and I get \"Failed to find Spark assembly JAR. You need to build Spark before running this program.\" When I try to run spark-shell

Answer 1

On Windows, I found that if it is installed in a directory that has a space in the path (C:\Program Files\Spark) the installation will fail. Move it to the root or another directory with no spaces.