I\'ve downloaded the prebuild version of spark 1.4.0 without hadoop (with user-provided Haddop). When I ran the spark-shell command, I got this error:
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Enter into SPARK_HOME -> conf
copy spark-env.sh.template file and rename it to spark-env.sh Inside this file you can set the parameters for spark.
I too had the issue,
export SPARK_DIST_CLASSPATH=`hadoop classpath`
resolved the issue.