Elasticsearch is a powerful search engine and analytics tool that you can use to store and retrieve data quickly and easily. In this guide, we will show you how to install Elasticsearch on MX Linux latest version using the official repository.
Before starting the installation process, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to update the system and upgrade all the packages to the latest available version. This ensures that we have an up-to-date system that is free from any security vulnerabilities. To do this, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
To install Elasticsearch, we need to add the Elastic repositories to our system. For this, we will use the wget command to download and add the Elastic package signing key to our system.
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
Next, we need to add the Elastic repository to our MX Linux Latest system. Run the following command in the terminal:
sudo echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list
After adding the Elastic repository, we can now install Elasticsearch. Run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install elasticsearch
This will download and install Elasticsearch and its dependencies on our system.
Now that we have installed Elasticsearch, we need to configure it to run on our system. Open the Elasticsearch configuration file using a text editor.
sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
In the configuration file, you can make changes to the settings as per your requirements. However, we will only make one change in this tutorial. Press Ctrl+W to search for network.host.
Uncomment the network.host line and change its value to localhost, as shown below:
network.host: localhost
Save and close the file.
To start Elasticsearch service, run the command given below:
sudo systemctl start elasticsearch
To enable Elasticsearch to start at boot time, run the command:
sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch
To ensure that Elasticsearch is working correctly, we can run a simple curl command to query Elasticsearch.
curl -X GET "localhost:9200"
If you see a JSON response with information about your Elasticsearch instance, then Elasticsearch is working correctly.
You have now successfully installed Elasticsearch on your MX Linux Latest system. Elasticsearch is now ready to be used for data indexing and search operations. You can start storing and querying data in Elasticsearch by creating indices and documents.
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