# Elasticsearch doesn't work!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-doesnt-work/140096>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 16, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-doesnt-work/140096 "2018-07-16T07:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-doesnt-work/140096/4 "2018-07-16T08:18:56Z")

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From your previous posts ([Elasticsearch failed to restart](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-failed-to-restart/139949/7)) it looks like you've ended up with a broken install (perhaps multiple versions, or old versions, or something broken), and the changes you've made to try and fix it have gone down the wrong path.

Can you take a couple of steps back and tell us the history of this installation?

- what sort of package did you install? (rpm/deb/tgz?)
- did you upgrade from an older version?
- when did this stop working? what changed?

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