Steps to follow: 1. Copy unziped Hadoop and Hive folders into /home/user 2. Add these configuration in /etc/environment PATH="home/user/Hadoop/bin:/home/user/Hive/bin" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" HADOOP_INSTALL="/home/user/Hadoop" HIVE_INSTALL="/home/user/Hive" 3. In the terminal type "hadoop version" to check if it is running