Hi,
I have installed hive and set the environment variable export JAVA_HOME= export HADOOP_HOME= export HIVE_HOME= $ bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp $ bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /user/hive/warehouse $ bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /tmp $ bin/hadoop fs -chmod g+w /user/hive/warehouse After this when i execute hive it shows this error [root@slave bin]# hive Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/thrift/TException at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:149) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.thrift.TException at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) ... 3 more Please help Thanks Regards Prabhjot