Installing Hive
Install the appropriate Hive packages using the appropriate command for your distribution.
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RedHat and CentOS systems |
$ sudo yum install <pkg1> <pkg2> ... |
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SLES systems |
$ sudo zypper install <pkg1> <pkg2> ... |
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Ubuntu and Debian systems |
$ sudo apt-get install <pkg1> <pkg2> ... |
The packages are:
- hive – base package that provides the complete language and runtime
- hive-metastore – provides scripts for running the metastore as a standalone service (optional)
- hive-server2 – provides scripts for running HiveServer2
- hive-hbase - optional; install this package if you want to use Hive with HBase.
Configuration Step for WebHCat
If you want to use WebHCat, you need to set the PYTHON_CMD variable in /etc/default/hive-webhcat-server after installing
Hive; for example:
export PYTHON_CMD=/usr/bin/python