https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Error-when-executing-the-spark-shell/m-p/66874#M22756 <P><a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/26973">@Swasg</a>&nbsp; by any chance are you using the package name in the spark-shell? Something like&nbsp;</P><PRE>spark-shell --packages org.apache.spark:spark-streaming-kafka-0-8-assembly_2.11-2.3.0</PRE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The error suggests that the format should be in the form of 'groupId:artifactId:version' but in your case it's '<SPAN>groupId:artifactId-version'. If you are using the package in the command line or somewhere in your configuration, please modify it to:</SPAN></P><PRE>org.apache.spark:spark-streaming-kafka-0-8-assembly_2.11:2.3.0</PRE><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 02 May 2018 03:26:46 GMT AutoIN 2018-05-02T03:26:46Z