Error while trying to connect elastic search with curator

[Prafull (Prafull Singh)]

Hi ,

"I have installed curator using sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch-curator"
When i am trying to run the following command
curator --dry-run snapshot.yml --config curator.yml. Getting below error.

2019-09-12 14:12:51,218 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "snapshot"
2019-09-12 14:12:51,222 ERROR Elasticsearch version 7.3.1 incompatible with this version of Curator (5.2.0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/curator", line 11, in
load_entry_point('elasticsearch-curator==5.2.0', 'console_scripts', 'curator')()
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/curator/cli.py", line 211, in cli
run(config, action_file, dry_run)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/curator/cli.py", line 158, in run
client = get_client(**client_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/curator/utils.py", line 800, in get_client
'Error: {0}'.format(e)
elasticsearch.exceptions.ElasticsearchException: Unable to create client connection to Elasticsearch. Error: Elasticsearch version 7.3.1 incompatible with this version of Curator (5.2.0)

[theuntergeek (Aaron Mildenstein)]

You're using an old version of Curator which does not support ES 7.x, and suffers from a long-since-fixed version reporting bug.

Upgrade to Curator 5.7.6 to correct this. I'm not sure which repository still has 5.2.0, but it's not the official Curator repository.