You just need to run <trunk>/build/dist/bin/hive, not <trunk>/bin/hive.
From: vaibhav negi [mailto:sssssssena...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:08 PM To: hive-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Error starting Hive Hi Maha, Do a find | grep jar, in hive's directory, then cp all jars found to lib/ off the main hive directory. There are several that are not automatically copied there as part of the build, and this will fix things. Vaibhav Negi On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Maha <m...@umail.ucsb.edu<mailto:m...@umail.ucsb.edu>> wrote: Hi everyone, Please this is an easy question for all of you experienced Hive Squads, why am I getting this error: <hive-bin-path>$bin/hive Missing Hive Execution Jar: /cs/sandbox/student/maha/hive/lib/hive-exec-*.jar I followed all the steps form Hive-Getting started: $ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hive/trunk hive $ cd hive $ ant package $ cd build/dist $ ls Any hints? Thank you, Maha