Installing Interpreters

Apache Zeppelin provides Interpreter Installation mechanism for whom downloaded Zeppelin netinst binary package, or just want to install another 3rd party interpreters.

Community managed interpreters

Apache Zeppelin provides several interpreters as community managed interpreters. If you downloaded netinst binary package, you need to install by using below commands.

Install all community managed interpreters

./bin/install-interpreter.sh --all

Install specific interpreters

./bin/install-interpreter.sh --name md,shell,jdbc,python

You can get full list of community managed interpreters by running

./bin/install-interpreter.sh --list

Install interpreter built with Scala 2.10

Zeppelin support both Scala 2.10 and 2.11 for several interpreters as below:

If you install one of these interpreters only with --name option, installer will download interpreter built with Scala 2.11 by default. If you want to specify Scala version, you will need to add --artifact option. Here is the example of installing flink interpreter built with Scala 2.10.

./bin/install-interpreter.sh --name flink --artifact org.apache.zeppelin:zeppelin-flink_2.10:0.8.0

Spark interpreter for scala 2.10 and 2.11

Starting from Zeppelin 0.8.0, Zeppelin support both scala 2.10 and 2.11 in one zeppelin instance. You don't need to install different scala specific interpreter for spark. It would pick up the right scala specific interpreter for the spark distribution where SPARK_HOME point to.

Here's the command to install spark interpreter

rm -rf ./interpreter/spark
./bin/install-interpreter.sh --name spark --artifact org.apache.zeppelin:spark-interpreter:0.8.0

Once you have installed interpreters, you need to restart Zeppelin. And then create interpreter setting and bind it with your notebook.

3rd party interpreters

You can also install 3rd party interpreters located in the maven repository by using below commands.

Install 3rd party interpreters

./bin/install-interpreter.sh --name interpreter1 --artifact groupId1:artifact1:version1

The above command will download maven artifact groupId1:artifact1:version1 and all of its transitive dependencies into interpreter/interpreter1 directory.

After restart Zeppelin, then create interpreter setting and bind it with your note.

Install multiple 3rd party interpreters at once

./bin/install-interpreter.sh --name interpreter1,interpreter2 --artifact groupId1:artifact1:version1,groupId2:artifact2:version2

--name and --artifact arguments will recieve comma separated list.

Available community managed interpreters

You can also find the below community managed interpreter list in conf/interpreter-list file.