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Installation and Configuration

You can install a stable release of Hive by downloading a tarball, or you can download the source code and build Hive from that.

Requirements

• Java 1.6
• Hadoop 0.20.x, 0.23.x, or 2.0.x-alpha

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Next you need to unpack the tarball. This will result in the creation of a subdirectory named hive-x.y.z (where x.y.z is the release number):

  $ tar -xzvf hive-x.y.z.tar.gz

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Building Hive from Source

The Hive SVN repository for the most recent Hive code is located here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk. The repository for branches containing released versions is located here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/branches. All of the release versions are in subdirectories named "branch-0.#" (except "branch-0.8-r2"); any subdirectories with other names are for works-in-progress.

As of 0.13, Hive is built using Maven.

Compile Hive on Hadoop 0.23

To build the current Hive code on Hadoop 0.23 or later:

  $ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk hive
  $ cd hive
  $ mvn clean install -Phadoop-2,dist
  $ cd packaging/target/apache-hive-{version}-SNAPSHOT-bin/apache-hive-{version}-SNAPSHOT-bin
  $ ls
  LICENSE
  NOTICE
  README.txt
  RELEASE_NOTES.txt
  bin/ (all the shell scripts)
  lib/ (required jar files)
  conf/ (configuration files)
  examples/ (sample input and query files)
  hcatalog / (hcatalog installation)
  scripts / (upgrade scripts for hive-metastore)

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  $ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk/branches/branch-{version} hive
  $ cd hive
  $ ant clean package
  $ cd build/dist
  # ls
  LICENSE
  NOTICE
  README.txt
  RELEASE_NOTES.txt
  bin/ (all the shell scripts)
  lib/ (required jar files)
  conf/ (configuration files)
  examples/ (sample input and query files)
  hcatalog / (hcatalog installation)
  scripts / (upgrade scripts for hive-metastore)

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If using Ant, we will refer to the directory "build/dist" as <install-dir>.

Compile Hive Prior to 0.13 on Hadoop 0.23

To build Hive in Ant against Hadoop 0.23, 2.0.0, or other version, build with the appropriate flag; some examples below:

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