Hive Installation

Before you start installing hive, you should have already installed hadoop.

See Hadoop Installation

Step 1: Download Hive from apache website (check with comparability with hadoop version)

Step 2: Go to downloads and extract hive.tar.gz

Step 3: Copy the extracted jar into /home/hduser/hive.

Step 4: Edit /etc/bash.bashrc

                $gedit bash.bashrc

                $sudo gedit  /etc/bash.bashrc

                $sudo leafpad /etc/bash.bashrc

Step 5: Set Home Path

                export HADOOP_HOME=/home/hduser/hadoop

                export HIVE_HOME=/home/hduser/hive

                export PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_HOME/bin

                export PATH=$PATH:$HIVE_HOME/bin

Step 6: Save and Close

Step 7: Open terminal and enter hive 

Now you can enter hive shell.