Elasticsearch 7.16 failed install on Unbuntu 20.04 - cannot execute binary file

[Winston_Ferguson (Winston)]

Hi,

I'm unable to solve my issue installing Elasticsearch on my new Windows 11 machine running Ubuntu 20.04 (via Windows Subsystem for Linux). The log received is:

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 32 not upgraded.
Need to get 344 MB of archives.
After this operation, 552 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable/main amd64 elasticsearch amd64 7.16.2 [344 MB]
Fetched 344 MB in 17min 56s (319 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 61463 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../elasticsearch_7.16.2_amd64.deb ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 20: .: /etc/default/elasticsearch: cannot execute binary file
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch_7.16.2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new elasticsearch package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 126
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch_7.16.2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Having looked into things online, I figured this might be an issue with my Java install or JAVA_HOME environment variable but these seem okay:

echo $JAVA_HOME returns

/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64

java --version returns

openjdk 11.0.11 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20.04)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20.04, mixed mode, sharing)

Any insight as to where the issue may be and how to solve it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Welcome to our community!

There's not a lot there to be honest. Is there anything in other system logs that relate to this?

[Christian_Dahlqvist]

Have a look at this thread which I believe is related.

[Winston_Ferguson (Winston)]

Thanks for the help.

I read the thread Christian linked and opted for a Windows install. Straight forward, fast, and no issues.

I had Elasticsearch installed and working via Ubuntu/WSL on my previous machine but that was Windows 10 and Intel. I'm now on Windows 11 with AMD and I'm not sure if this could affect things?