STEP 1:
Download Hive 2.1.1 (or which ever version of you like).
STEP 2:
Extract It.
Step 3: Start Hadoop and create HDFS directories.
$start-dfs.sh
$start-yarn.sh
$hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /user/hive/warehouse
$hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /tmp/hive
Step 4: Set path in bashrc.
export HIVE_HOME=/home/hadoop/Downloads/apache-hive-2.1.1-bin
Step 5: Change Directory Permissions.
$hdfs dfs -chmod 777 /tmp/
$hdfs dfs -chmod 777 /user/hive/warehouse
$hdfs dfs -chmod 777 /tmp/hive
