Why does sbt assembly fail with "Not a valid command: assembly"?

Question

I installed Spark to C:\Spark1_6\spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.6. After navigating to this path I am entering sbt assembly command and I am getting the following error message:

[error] Not a valid command: assembly
[error] Not a valid project ID: assembly
[error] Expected ':'
[error] Not a valid key: assembly
[error] assembly
[error]         ^

Here is my sbt project structure.

-Project101
  -project
     -build.properties
     -plugins.sbt
-src
-build.sbt

Here is my build.sbt:

name := "Project101"
version := "1.0"
scalaVersion := "2.10.2"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "org.apache.spark" % "spark-core_2.10" % "1.6.0" exclude ("org.apache.hadoop","hadoop-yarn-server-web-proxy"),
  "org.apache.spark" % "spark-sql_2.10" % "1.6.0" exclude ("org.apache.hadoop","hadoop-yarn-server-web-proxy"),
  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-hive" % "1.6.0",
  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-streaming" % "1.6.0",
  "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-streaming-kafka" % "1.6.0"
)
resolvers in Global ++= Seq(
  "Sbt plugins"                   at "https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/sbt-plugin-releases",
  "Maven Central Server"          at "http://repo1.maven.org/maven2",
  "TypeSafe Repository Releases"  at "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases/",
  "TypeSafe Repository Snapshots" at "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/snapshots/"
)

Here is the plugins.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-assembly" % "0.12.0")

sbt package command is working and able to create the jar file. But I had to execute sbt assembly command too but is not working.

Check this http://stackoverflow.com/a/29526644/4355342 – Jyothi Babu Araja May 22 '17 at 06:48 — Jyothi Babu Araja, May 22 '17 at 06:48

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 25 '18 at 21:48

Not a valid command: assembly

Whenever you face the error message, please make sure you're in the top-level directory of the project with the sbt-assembly plugin installed.

If you have a project in Project101 directory, make sure that project/plugins.sbt has the line in:

addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-assembly" % "0.12.0")

With that, you should again be in Project101 directory and execute sbt assembly. That should execute the plugin to create an uber-jar.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '22 at 16:33

As correctly stated in another answer, the issue is caused by running sbt assembly not from the project directory.

If you getting that issue within Docker container, make sure that your mounts are set correctly.

For example:

docker run ... -v $$PWD/:/<your Scala project directory here> -w /<your Scala project directory here> <your build image> bash -c "sbt assembly"

Why does sbt assembly fail with "Not a valid command: assembly"?

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