Apache Zeppelin is distributed as a single gzip archive with the following structure:

zeppelin-<version>-bin
 ├── bin
 │   ├── zeppelin.sh
 │   └── zeppelin-daemon.sh
 ├── conf
 ├── interpreter
 ├── lib
 ├── licenses
 ├── notebook
 └── zeppelin-web-<verion>.war
 

We use maven-assembly-plugin to build it, see zeppelin-distribution/src/assemble/distribution.xml for details.

IMPORTANT: _/lib_ subdirectory contains all transitive dependencies of the zeppelin-distribution module, automatically resolved by maven, except for explicitly excluded _web_ Zeppelin sub-modules.