# Error when installing basic license for x-pack on ES 5.6.2
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 12, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731 "2017-10-12T13:22:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@moriol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/moriol)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731/1 "2017-10-12T13:22:10Z")
I get the following when trying to install x-pack on ES 5.6.2
```auto
"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"action_not_found_transport_exception","reason":"No handler for action [cluster:admin/xpack/license/put]"}],"type":"action_not_found_transport_exception","reason":"No handler for action [cluster:admin/xpack/license/put]"},"status":500}
```
I used the following command:
```auto
curl -XPUT -u elastic 'http://localhost:9200/_xpack/license?acknowledge=true' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @license.json
```
I moved my license to license.json file
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### Author:  [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731/2 "2017-10-20T19:36:40Z")
Hi Olga,
This looks like x-pack is not installed correctly. Can you double check the installation? Maybe you need to stop/restart elasticsearch.
Can you also check the output of
```auto
curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cat/plugins?v
```
Archana (a5a)
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### Author:  [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731/3 "2017-10-23T17:20:07Z")
Hi Olga
I had the same error and since I was in a cluster infrastructure I have restarted services on every nodes.
after that, using
```
curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cat/plugins?v
```
I was able to see the x-pack plugin installed.
so it is a step forward. unfortunately, not enough to make it works ☹
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### Author:  [@moriol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/moriol)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731/4 "2017-10-26T15:11:41Z")
I am in clustered environment as well, so this might be a step forward. Thank you for your response.
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### Author:  [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731/5 "2017-10-27T18:53:07Z")
remember also to add the standard username in your kibana configuration file.
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### Author:  [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731/7 "2017-10-31T17:37:11Z")
Can you make sure you have x-pack installed on all nodes in your cluster?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-installing-basic-license-for-x-pack-on-es-5-6-2/103731/8 "2017-11-28T17:37:22Z")
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