KafkaUtils class not found in Spark streaming

Question

I have just began with Spark Streaming and I am trying to build a sample application that counts words from a Kafka stream. Although it compiles with sbt package

Answer 1

Please try by including all dependency jars while submitting application:

./spark-submit --name "SampleApp" --deploy-mode client--master spark://host:7077 --class com.stackexchange.SampleApp --jars $SPARK_INSTALL_DIR/spark-streaming-kafka_2.10-1.3.0.jar,$KAFKA_INSTALL_DIR/libs/kafka_2.10-0.8.2.0.jar,$KAFKA_INSTALL_DIR/libs/metrics-core-2.2.0.jar,$KAFKA_INSTALL_DIR/libs/zkclient-0.3.jar spark-example-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar