This works also without copying the jar to all nodes:   wget http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/xerial/snappy/snappy-java/1.1.4/snappy-java-1.1.4.jar spark2-shell --jars snappy-java-1.1.4.jar --conf spark.executor.userClassPathFirst=true --conf spark.executor.extraClassPath=snappy-java-1.1.4.jar   ... View more