# Elastic stack component installation using rpm without root user
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-component-installation-using-rpm-without-root-user/133920
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-component-installation-using-rpm-without-root-user/133920 "2018-05-30T17:45:47Z")
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### Author:  [@tushar\_raut](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tushar_raut)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-component-installation-using-rpm-without-root-user/133920/1 "2018-05-30T17:45:47Z")
Hello Team,
I have downloaded the rpm's of almost all the components of elastic stack and trying to install on my cluster. I don't have root/sudo user access, So while installing this rpms getting permission denied error.
Can somebody advise me how to proceed to install this rpm's using normal user?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-component-installation-using-rpm-without-root-user/133920/2 "2018-05-30T22:22:20Z")
You cannot unfortunately. We need root to make some directories for data/config.
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### Author:  [@tushar\_raut](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tushar_raut)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-component-installation-using-rpm-without-root-user/133920/3 "2018-06-06T06:28:16Z")
Got it, Thank you Mark.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-component-installation-using-rpm-without-root-user/133920/4 "2018-07-04T06:28:20Z")
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