Hive installation on Linux

Question

Please guide me with the steps to install Hive on Linux System. Thank in advance!

Answer 1

Download hive from: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hive/

Extract the files using terminal:

$ cd Downloads

$ tar -xvf apache-hive-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

Edit the “.bashrc” file to update the environment variables for user.

$ cd ..

$ nano .bashrc

Add the following entries:

export HIVE_HOME=/home/edureka/Downloads/apache-hive-3.1.1-bin

export PATH=$PATH:/home/edureka/Downloads/apache-hive-3.1.1-bin/bin

Save and exit the file.

And run the below command to update the environment variables:

$ source .bashrc

Now to verify installation, run this command:

$ hive --version

This will print the version of Hive installed.