Elasticsearch 2.x.x
nano ~/elasticsearch-install.sh
#!/usr/bin/sh VERSION=2.4.0 apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk rm /etc/alternatives/java ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java /etc/alternatives/java export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH if [ ! -f elasticsearch-$VERSION.deb ]; then wget https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/distribution/deb/elasticsearch/$VERSION/elasticsearch-$VERSION.deb fi sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-$VERSION.deb # be sure you add "action.disable_delete_all_indices" : true to the config!! # start script sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart if [ -f /usr/bin/plugin ]; then rm /usr/bin/plugin fi sudo ln -s /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin /usr/bin/plugin # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # if you want to remove it: #sudo dpkg -r elasticsearch # binaries & plugin #/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin # log dir #/var/log/elasticsearch # data dir #/var/lib/elasticsearch # config dir #/etc/elasticsearch # prepare ElasticSearch UI #sudo apt-get install apache2 #sudo mkdir /var/www/ui #sudo chown -R ubuntu.www-data /var/www # now copy ES-HEAD to /var/www/ui