# Curator installation results in error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 24, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980 "2017-05-24T13:05:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@aarishramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aarishramesh)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/1 "2017-05-24T13:05:32Z")
I am trying to install elasticsearch curator by various means like
```
pip install elasticsearch-curator
```
But when i execute the above command I get a series of errors like below
```
^
In file included from ext/_yaml.h:2:0,
from ext/_yaml.c:271:
/usr/include/yaml.h:633:1: note: expected 'yaml_char_t *' but argument is of type 'char *'
yaml_mapping_start_event_initialize(yaml_event_t *event,
^
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-
functions -Wl,-z,relro -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -
Werror=format-security build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/ext/_yaml.o -lyaml -o build/lib.linux-
x86_64-2.7/_yaml.so
Running setup.py install for voluptuous
WARNING: Could not locate pandoc, using Markdown long_description.
Successfully installed elasticsearch-curator elasticsearch click pyyaml voluptuous certifi
urllib3
Cleaning up...
```
Also when i try to execute it like below
```
wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python-elasticsearch-curator
https://artifacts.elastic.co stable/main Translation-en
Err http://packages.elastic.co stable/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 174.129.40.40 80]
Ign http://packages.elastic.co stable/main Translation-en
W: Failed to fetch
http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/5.3.0/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-
amd64/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 174.129.40.40 80]
```
What is the problem here wrt to installing elasticsearch-curator as I am just following the instructions in the installation page ?
---
### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2017, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/2 "2017-05-24T13:54:27Z")
Which documentation link are you looking at? When I look at [the current documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.0/apt-repository.html), I see:
```auto
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch-curator
```
but you have
```auto
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install python-elasticsearch-curator
```
---
### Author:  [@aarishramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aarishramesh)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/3 "2017-05-24T14:10:37Z")
I tried executing the command too
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch-curator
But still the error persists ☹
---
### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/4 "2017-05-24T15:51:16Z")
I see `packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/5.3.0`, but Curator is in a different path. Did you follow [these instructions](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.0/apt-repository.html#_repository_configuration) to add the Curator repository properly?
---
### Author:  [@aarishramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aarishramesh)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/5 "2017-05-26T11:57:11Z")
Yes @theuntergeek I have followed the steps properly. Can't understand why does the package not found error occurs ?
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/6 "2017-05-26T14:10:47Z")
Neither can I. I just spun up a clean Ubuntu 16.04 VM:
Locale fix (for my VM). You may or may not need to do this if a UTF-8 charset is your default locale.
```auto
root@ubuntu1604-test:~$ locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8"
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8)
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
root@ubuntu1604-test:~$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
en_US.UTF-8... done
Generation complete.
```
Now, the install:
```auto
root@ubuntu1604-test:~$ wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
OK
root@ubuntu1604-test:~$ echo "deb http://packages.elastic.co/curator/5/debian stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/curator.list
root@ubuntu1604-test:~$ apt update && apt install elasticsearch-curator
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB]
Get:2 http://packages.elastic.co/curator/5/debian stable InRelease [1452 B]
Get:3 http://packages.elastic.co/curator/5/debian stable/main amd64 Packages [513 B]
... lots of other repos updated ...
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse Translation-en [1232 B]
Fetched 16.4 MB in 4s (3384 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
156 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
elasticsearch-curator
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 156 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 28.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://packages.elastic.co/curator/5/debian stable/main amd64 elasticsearch-curator amd64 5.0.4 [11.4 MB]
Fetched 11.4 MB in 1s (9597 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package elasticsearch-curator.
(Reading database ... 16228 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../elasticsearch-curator_5.0.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking elasticsearch-curator (5.0.4) ...
Setting up elasticsearch-curator (5.0.4) ...
root@ubuntu1604-test:~$ export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
root@ubuntu1604-test:~$ curator --version
curator, version 5.0.4
```
What's in your repository definition? Is it `"deb http://packages.elastic.co/curator/5/debian stable main"`?
---
### Author:  [@aarishramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aarishramesh)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/7 "2017-05-29T13:47:34Z")
Thanks. I was able to install curator. The problem was there were few other .list files present under sources.list.d. So it got fixed after deleting the other ones except curator.list.
Also I followed the instructions for delete\_indices
here [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.0/ex\_delete\_indices.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.0/ex_delete_indices.html) & got to invoke curator process to delete indices which worked fine.
Now I have two questions.
First one is how do i define multiple filters to delete various indices in a single yml file ?
```
actions:
1:
action: delete_indices
description: >-
Delete indices older than 10 days (based on index name), for logstash-
prefixed indices. Ignore the error if the filter does not result in an
actionable list of indices (ignore_empty_list) and exit cleanly.
options:
ignore_empty_list: True
disable_action: False
filters:
- filtertype: pattern
kind: prefix
value: nginx-access-
- filtertype: pattern
kind: prefix
value: nginx-error-
- filtertype: age
source: name
direction: older
timestring: '%Y.%m.%d'
unit: days
unit_count: 10
```
I tried doing it like above but it did not work.
Second question is how do i setup cron for the action ? I tried invoking the below command but it did not work
```
curator --host localhost delete indices --older-than 60 --time-unit days --timestring '%Y.%m.%d'
```
Got the error
```
Error: no such option: --host
```
Please help me fix this
---
### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/8 "2017-05-29T16:20:05Z")
All of these questions are answered in the documentation.
[Filters are joined together by logical AND operators](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.0/filters.html), which is why your filters aren't working—`nginx-access` and `nginx-error` are mutually exclusive.
The second question indicates you read some blog somewhere and are getting outdated configuration information. Since v4.0, Curator switched to a YAML-based configuration. Curator 4.2 restored _some_ of that older syntax in the form of [singleton command line syntax](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.0/singleton-cli.html), using `curator_cli`, rather than just `curator`.
Please check the documentation before you blindly accept instructions from an outdated blog. Check to see that the instructions are for the appropriate version, and perhaps verify that it is the same as the current documentation.
---
### Author:  [@aarishramesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aarishramesh)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/9 "2017-05-30T08:26:57Z")
Thanks a lot @theuntergeek . There are a lot of outdated documentations which is the reason for confusion from my side. Also for configuring cron for delete indices , I have followed [https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/655](https://github.com/elastic/curator/issues/655) and added it in crontab. Is this the right way or is there any other yml based way cron can be configured ?
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/10 "2017-05-30T13:56:03Z")
For a yaml installation, Curator is configured like:
```auto
1 1 * * * /path/to/curator --config /path/to/curator.yml /path/to/action.yml
```
This will run at 1:01am, and connect via the client configuration found in `curator.yml` and run the actions found in `action.yml`. Issue 655 addresses crontab issues for older versions of Curator, before v4.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-installation-results-in-error/86980/11 "2017-06-27T13:56:25Z")
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