I have Hadoop 1.0.4 running on a single node cluster set up on my Ubuntu machine.
I did the following steps to download and install the hive release
Just want to post what worked for me (in 2017).
Using Spark 2.0.2, I had to change my $HIVE_HOME variable (which in my case, constituted me just removing the variable from my .bash_profile.
$HIVE_HOME
.bash_profile
Hope this helps someone else.