Install java JDK 8

Thanks http://askubuntu.com/a/106496

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install oracle-jdk7-installer

Install Spark

• Go to http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html.
• Choose “prebuild for Haddop xx and later”
• Untar the file
• From the source folder, run

./bin/pyspark