# How do you update plugins in CentOS
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732 "2016-11-10T23:31:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@seanziee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seanziee)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732/1 "2016-11-10T23:31:22Z")
Hi,
This may be obvious to some of you, but I dont know how to update grok when ELK is run as a service becuase there is no /bin file. Please help! 🙂
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732/2 "2016-11-10T23:31:57Z")
What version are you on?
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### Author:  [@seanziee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seanziee)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732/3 "2016-11-10T23:36:23Z")
CentOS7
ELK 5.0
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### Author:  [@seanziee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seanziee)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732/4 "2016-11-10T23:37:27Z")
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This was recently done and I'd like to add it to my grok plugin
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732/5 "2016-11-11T00:45:25Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/working-with-plugins.html#updating-plugins](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/working-with-plugins.html#updating-plugins) should sort you out.
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### Author:  [@seanziee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seanziee)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732/6 "2016-11-11T19:09:17Z")
Great, thanks a bunch. I was just having trouble finding the bin folder but found it in usr/share/logstash and then sent the command that is listed on that page.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-update-plugins-in-centos/65732/7 "2016-12-09T19:09:34Z")
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