# Failed installing elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-installing-elasticsearch/153231>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 19, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-installing-elasticsearch/153231 "2018-10-19T22:45:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patrick\_Doyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Patrick\_Doyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Patrick_Doyle)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-installing-elasticsearch/153231/1 "2018-10-19T22:45:16Z")

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I am following the guide here [https://logz.io/blog/elasticsearch-tutorial/](https://logz.io/blog/elasticsearch-tutorial/) on a brand new ubuntu 18.04 AWS EC2 instance.

I ran the following commands:

```
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elasticsearch

```

And receive the following error:

```
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch_6.4.2_all.deb (--unpack):
 new elasticsearch package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch_6.4.2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

```

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-installing-elasticsearch/153231/2 "2018-10-22T08:56:25Z")

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Have you installed java first? Check for `JAVA_HOME` environment variable and/or run `java -version`.

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**Author:** ![balumurari1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/balumurari1/32/39203_2.png) [@balumurari1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/balumurari1)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-installing-elasticsearch/153231/3 "2018-10-25T06:00:26Z")

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Make sure you install java 8.  
hope this helps you,

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-installing-elasticsearch/153231/4 "2018-11-22T06:03:01Z")

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