Error opening Spark 1.5.0

Question

After downloading the most recent tar of Spark (1.5.0), I received the following error

$ tar -xf spark-1.5.0.tar    
tar: copyfile unpack (spark-1.5.0/python/test_support/sql/orc_partitioned/SUCCESS.crc) failed: No such file or directory

I tried it a second time and got

tar: copyfile unpack (spark-1.5.0/python/test_support/sql/orc_partitioned/SUCCESS.crc) failed: File exists

Answer 1

Use gnu-tar (gtar) instead. BSD tar comes with gnu-tar, or you can install the latest using homebrew. GNU tar just seems to be more MacOSX friendly.

brew install gnu-tar
gtar -xf spark-1.5.0.tar