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Add notes about placing the Spark installer
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The decompressed Spark folder may not have to be placed in programData folder.
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philipai authored Sep 9, 2024
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* Choose a package type: Pre-built for Hadoop 2.7<br/>
*Please note that Spark and Hadoop are regularly updated & therefore the actual versions will differ*

Create a folder 'spark' in 'C:\ProgramData' and move 'spark-2.4.4-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz' from your downloads folder to this directory.
Create a folder 'spark' in 'C:\ProgramData' 'C:\Program Files\spark', or merely C drive(C:\spark), and then move 'spark-2.4.4-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz' from your downloads folder to this directory. Note: 'ProgramData' folder is a hidden directory in Windows 11 as of Setember 2024.
Now uncompress the file using 7zip, so that you have the following directory structure:
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Directory of C:\ProgramData\spark\spark-2.4.4-bin-hadoop2.7
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