Install Maven 3.3.3 sudo apt-get purge -y maven wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz tar -zxf apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.3.3 /usr/local sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn echo "export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.3.3" >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile Install Scala 2.11 wget http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/scala-2.11.8.deb sudo dpkg -i scala-2.11.8.deb sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install scala Install SBT 0.13 wget https://bintray.com/artifact/download/sbt/debian/sbt-0.13.6.deb sudo dpkg -i sbt-0.13.6.deb sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sbt Clone and Build Spark with Scala 2.11 git clone git://github.com/apache/spark.git -b branch-1.6 ./dev/change-scala-version.sh 2.11 mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dscala-2.11 -DskipTests clean package