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Installing Hive on Windows 8.1 error "Missing Hive Execution Jar: C:\hive\lib/hive-exec-*.jar"

I am following these instructions to install Hive on Windows 8.1

I downloaded Hive tar from [Hive Apache page] (http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hive/) and extracted to folder c:\hive\

I have added a new System Variable set to HIVE_HOME = c:\hive

I have added c:\hive\bin to Path

I already have Hadoop 2.7.5 up and running fine.

When I try to run hive at command line I get following error:

"Missing Hive Execution Jar: C:\hive\lib/hive-exec-*.jar"

Some of the other SO question/answers suggest .jar files are in other folders.

But I can't find any .jar files in the extracted folders.

I don't want to download any .jars as other answers suggest. Shouldn't required .jar file be in the tar file?

I have vague impression that maybe Hadoop has the required .jar files, and there is something I need to do to tell Hive to get those?

Solution

  • Ok so it looks like you do have download a previous version tar file of Hive and extract it to use the .jar files in its /lib folder.

    I had originally downloaded apache-hive-2.1.0 and set that up but it didn't have the .jar files in its /lib folder.

    So I went to http://apache.mirror.iweb.ca/hive/ and downloaded hive-1.0.1 and which had .jar files in it.

    Then copied those in the empty /lib file in apache-hive-2.1.0 installation.

    Now Hive is working fine!