Elasticsearch is a powerful open-source search and analytics engine that helps you to search, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data in real-time. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of installing Elasticsearch on Void Linux.
Before installing Elasticsearch on your Void Linux environment, you need to have the following requirements satisfied:
First, we have to add Elasticsearch's official repository to our Void Linux system. To do this, run the following command in the terminal:
echo "https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch" | sudo xbps-install -S gnupg curl
sudo rpm --import https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
sudo bash -c 'echo "[elasticsearch-7.x]\nname=Elasticsearch repository for 7.x packages\nbaseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/yum\ngpgcheck=1\ngpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch\nenabled=1" > /etc/xbps.d/elasticsearch.repo'
Next, we'll install Elasticsearch:
sudo xbps-install elasticsearch
Once the installation process is complete, we have to start and enable Elasticsearch so that it can run as a background service.
Use the following command to start the Elasticsearch service:
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/elasticsearch /var/service/
You can verify whether the Elasticsearch is running or not using the following command:
sv status elasticsearch
You should see something like this:
log: /var/log/service/elasticsearch: current -> /run/elasticsearch-2022-10-20-04-23-15/log, previous -> /var/log/service/elasticsearch
supervisor: ok: run: 1s, normally up
To confirm that Elasticsearch is installed properly on your system, you can run the following command in the terminal:
curl -X GET http://localhost:9200
If everything is set up correctly, you should see the following output:
{
"name" : "node-1",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
"cluster_uuid" : "c8SrFlZGQMSnboP6TBNz6Q",
"version" : {
"number" : "7.15.0",
"build_flavor" : "default",
"build_type" : "rpm",
"build_hash" : "79d65f6e357953a5b3cbcc5e2c7c21073d89aa29",
"build_date" : "2022-10-13T00:23:54.524573064Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "8.10.2",
"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "6.8.0",
"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "6.0.0-beta1"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
That's it! You have successfully installed Elasticsearch on your Void Linux system. You can now use Elasticsearch to search, analyze, and visualize your data.
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