Github user RPCMoritz commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-zeppelin/pull/65#issuecomment-101553576 While this was a decent effort (it actually made my classpath-related error almost readable, where previously it was three screens worth of text), there is still an issue with classpath's lack of simplicity. In partcular, it pulls in (without any obvious documentation) many different classpaths, some of which may depend on environment variables. I'm currently (Zeppelin master, HDP 2.2w/ spark tech preview on yarn) getting "bad substitution" errors from launch_container.sh:27, an issue similar to Ambari-8028 (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-8028) and which I suspect is down to remaining references to ${hdp.version} (and potentially $PWD, $HADOOP_CONF_DIR), which I'm chasing down now. I think it might be a good idea to move the classpath over to zeppelin-site.xml in any case, since over the long term managing the classpath via shell scripts is going to be painful and not user-friendly. Especially the CLASSPATH+= makes identifying the issue I encountered very difficult.
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