# Debian 8 apt install issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-8-apt-install-issue/139061 "2018-07-08T16:09:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alex4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Alex4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex4)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-8-apt-install-issue/139061/1 "2018-07-08T16:09:59Z")
apt-get install elasticsearch Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: elasticsearch 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 91.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 143 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt/](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt/) stable/main elasticsearch all 6.3.1 [91.4 MB] Fetched 91.4 MB in 18s (5,067 kB/s) (Reading database ... 69941 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../elasticsearch\_6.3.1\_all.deb ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch\_6.3.1\_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch\_6.3.1\_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ---
**Author:** ![Alex4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Alex4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex4)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-8-apt-install-issue/139061/2 "2018-07-08T16:16:26Z")
**FIX before install** echo "deb [http://http.debian.net/debian](http://http.debian.net/debian) jessie-backports main" \> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports openjdk-8-jre-headless ---
**Author:** ![Alex4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Alex4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex4)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-8-apt-install-issue/139061/3 "2018-07-08T16:22:33Z")
And full install on Debian 8: wget -qO - [https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch](https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch) | sudo apt-key add - apt-get install apt-transport-https echo "deb [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic.list echo "deb [http://http.debian.net/debian](http://http.debian.net/debian) jessie-backports main" \> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports openjdk-8-jre-headless apt-get install -y elasticsearch systemctl enable elasticsearch systemctl start elasticsearch ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debian-8-apt-install-issue/139061/4 "2018-08-05T16:22:35Z")
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