diff --git a/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile b/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile
index c2de9f1a3d494..c8e7fcb0741e1 100644
--- a/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile
+++ b/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ WORKDIR /apache-arrow
 # Basic OS utilities
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
         wget \
-        git \
-        software-properties-common
-
+        git
 # This will install conda in /home/ubuntu/miniconda
 #RUN wget -O /tmp/miniconda.sh \
 #    https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh && \
diff --git a/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh b/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh
index e385d2acf14da..f0b3395175052 100755
--- a/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh
+++ b/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh
@@ -47,18 +47,20 @@ git clone https://github.com/apache/spark.git
 pushd spark
 sed -i -e "s/\(.*<arrow.version>\).*\(<\/arrow.version>\)/\1$ARROW_VERSION\2/g" ./pom.xml
 echo "Building Spark with Arrow $ARROW_VERSION"
-mvn -DskipTests clean package
+build/mvn -DskipTests clean package
 
 # Run Arrow related Scala tests only, NOTE: -Dtest=_NonExist_ is to enable surefire test discovery without running any tests so that Scalatest can run
 SPARK_SCALA_TESTS="org.apache.spark.sql.execution.arrow,org.apache.spark.sql.execution.vectorized.ColumnarBatchSuite,org.apache.spark.sql.execution.vectorized.ArrowColumnVectorSuite"
 echo "Testing Spark $SPARK_SCALA_TESTS"
-mvn -Dtest=_NonExist_ -DwildcardSuites="'$SPARK_SCALA_TESTS'" test -pl sql/core
+# TODO: should be able to only build spark-sql tests with adding "-pl sql/core" but not currently working
+build/mvn -Dtest=none -DwildcardSuites="$SPARK_SCALA_TESTS" test
 
 # Run pyarrow related Python tests only
 #SPARK_TESTING=1 bin/pyspark pyspark.sql.tests ArrowTests GroupbyApplyTests VectorizedUDFTests
 popd
 
 # Clean up
+echo "Cleaning up.."
 #rm -rf spark .local
 rm -rf spark