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Installation and Configuration

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• Java 1.7
  Note:  Hive versions 1.2 onward require Java 1.7 or newer. Hive versions 0.14 to 1.1 work with Java 1.6 as well. Users are strongly advised to start moving to Java 1.8 (see HIVE-8607).  
• Hadoop  22.x (preferred), 1.x (not supported by Hive 2.0.0 onward).
  Hive versions up to 0.13 also supported Hadoop 0.20.x, 0.23.x.
• Hive is commonly used in production Linux and Windows environment. Mac is a commonly used development environment. The instructions in this document are applicable to Linux and Mac. Using it on Windows would require slightly different steps.  

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The Hive GIT repository for the most recent Hive code is located here: git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/hive.git (the master branch).

All of the release versions are in branches named "branch-0.#" or "branch-1.#" or  or the upcoming "branch-02.#" (except , with the exception of release 0.8.1 which is in "branch-0.8-r2"); any . Any branches with other names are feature branches for works-in-progress. See Understanding Hive Branches for details.

As of 0.13, Hive is built using Apache Maven.

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If building Hive source using Maven (mvn), we will refer to the directory "/packaging/target/apache-hive-{version}-SNAPSHOT-bin/apache-hive-{version}-SNAPSHOT-bin" as <install-dir> for the rest of the page.

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