# Elasticsearch-plugin consistently installs plugins EARLIER than my version **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 15, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626 "2017-03-15T01:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bob\_Metelsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bob_metelsky/32/11387_2.png) [@Bob\_Metelsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bob_Metelsky)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/1 "2017-03-15T01:00:09Z")
I have a ES 5.2 cluster I would think there would be some version checking so the application does NOT install incompatible versions. Why does elasticsearch-plugin installer do this? Also it seems the documentation to install a plugin from a zip file is hidden somewhere or scarce. Particullay Im trying to install mapper-attachments-5.2.2.zip I think there is more to it than creating plugins directory and unzipping there.... In the ES\_HOME directory I create a plugins directory and unzip mapper-attachments-5.2.2.zip that creates a elasticsearch directory,Then i do ES\_HOME/elasticsearch-plugin install mapper-attachments and it again installs a pre 5,2 version Seems the [online documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/mapper-attachments.html) has inconsistencies as well... "Mapper Attachments Plugin edit Warning Deprecated in 5.0.0. **The mapper-attachments plugin has been replaced by the ingest-attachment plugin"** Im running elasticsearch -version Version: 5.2.2, Build: f9d9b74/2017-02-24T17:26:45.835Z, JVM: 1.8.0\_121 I simply do elasticsearch-plugin install ingest-attachment yet the installer is installing plugins before version 2.0!! again a failure... [2017-03-14T22:38:32,971][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap] Exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load plugin descriptor for existing plugin [ingest-attachment]. Was the plugin built before 2.0? yum update elasticsearch Setting up Update Process elasticsearch-5.x | 1.3 kB elasticsearch-5.x/primary No Packages marked for Update ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/2 "2017-03-15T03:30:36Z")
I just ran `elasticsearch-5.2.2/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install ingest-attachment` on a freshly extracted download of ES and didn't have any issues. The docs are not incorrect, that is the command you need to run. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/3 "2017-03-15T11:22:24Z")
BTW mapper attachments is deprecated. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/4 "2017-03-15T11:23:00Z")
May be you did not uninstall existing plugins? ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Metelsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bob_metelsky/32/11387_2.png) [@Bob\_Metelsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bob_Metelsky)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/5 "2017-03-15T20:14:07Z")
Complete output below and attached log 1 My initial issue - is why does ES allow installing of incompatible plugins? I did a rpm install using your repository this was installed last week no other ES was installed on this cluster using the repo gives me the ES\_HOME of /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin [elasticsearch-5.x] name=Elasticsearch repository for 5.x packages baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/5.x/yum gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch enabled=1 autorefresh=1 type=rpm-md [root@server ~]# elasticsearch -version Version: 5.2.2, Build: f9d9b74/2017-02-24T17:26:45.835Z, JVM: 1.8.0\_121 [root@server ~]# ls -ltr /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin total 32 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2573 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch-translog -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 223 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2599 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch-plugin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 404 Feb 24 12:29 [elasticsearch.in.sh](http://elasticsearch.in.sh) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7852 Feb 24 12:29 elasticsearch drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 08:49 x-pack drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 14 21:02 plugins [root@server ~]# /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin list x-pack [root@server ~]# /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install ingest-attachment -\> Downloading ingest-attachment from elastic [=================================================] 100% @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: plugin requires additional permissions @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ - java.lang.RuntimePermission getClassLoader - java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission suppressAccessChecks - java.security.SecurityPermission createAccessControlContext - java.security.SecurityPermission insertProvider - java.security.SecurityPermission putProviderProperty.BC See [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/permissions.html](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/security/permissions.html) for descriptions of what these permissions allow and the associated risks. Continue with installation? [y/N]y -\> Installed ingest-attachment [root@server ~]# /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin list ingest-attachment x-pack [root@server ~]# service elasticsearch start [root@server ~]# service elasticsearch restart Stopping elasticsearch: [OK] Starting elasticsearch: [FAILED] [cluster log showing error here](https://goo.gl/7BJzbG) boils down to [2017-03-15T15:52:28,651][ERROR][o.e.b.Bootstrap] Exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: **_Could not load plugin descriptor for existing plugin [ingest-attachment]. Was the plugin built before 2.0?_** at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.getPluginBundles(PluginsService.java:295) ~[elasticsearch-5.2.2.jar:5.2.2] ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/6 "2017-03-15T22:56:07Z")
Can you post or gist/pastebin/etc the entire log please? ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Metelsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bob_metelsky/32/11387_2.png) [@Bob\_Metelsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bob_Metelsky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/7 "2017-03-16T00:01:05Z")
The entire log is here [https://sites.google.com/site/developtroubleshooting/es-plugin-error](https://sites.google.com/site/developtroubleshooting/es-plugin-error) Im sure you don't expect me to have the log from day 1... ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Metelsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bob_metelsky/32/11387_2.png) [@Bob\_Metelsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bob_Metelsky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/8 "2017-03-16T00:30:07Z")
At the bottom of the page listed above - there is a link to my current log running 4 nodes I removed the ingest-mapper so ES could start you can get the[log here as well](https://sites.google.com/site/developtroubleshooting/es-plugin-error/ES-cluster.log?attredirects=0&d=1) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-plugin-consistently-installs-plugins-earlier-than-my-version/78626/9 "2017-04-13T00:30:07Z")
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