Installing Elasticsearch

Import the Elasticsearch PGP Key

wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | apt-key add -

You may need to install the apt-transport-https package on Debian before proceeding:

apt-get install apt-transport-https

For Elasticsearch 5.x on Debian 8

Save the repository definition to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-5.x.list:

echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/apt stable main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-5.x.list

For Elasticsearch 7.x on Debian 10

Save the repository definition to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list'

You can install the Elasticsearch Debian package with:

apt-get update
apt-get install elasticsearch

Installing Elasticsearch through packet manager will only allow to start it as service, not manually!

To configure Elasticsearch to start automatically when the system boots up, run the following commands:

sudo /bin/systemctl daemon-reload
sudo /bin/systemctl enable elasticsearch.service --now

Elasticsearch can be started and stopped as follows:

systemctl start elasticsearch.service
systemctl stop elasticsearch.service

Test started Elasticsearch server by entering http://localhost:9200 in a web browser.

Links

with more detailed information:

• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/deb.html
• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/deb.html