# How to install multiline plugin (Ubuntu 17.10)?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-install-multiline-plugin-ubuntu-17-10/124975>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 21, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-install-multiline-plugin-ubuntu-17-10/124975 "2018-03-21T11:49:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-install-multiline-plugin-ubuntu-17-10/124975/1 "2018-03-21T11:49:39Z")

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Hi,  
I have created a filter that uses multiline plugin in logstash, but how can I install the multiline filter plugin? I use Ubuntu 17.10.

**This is my error:**

> Tried to load a plugin's code, but failed. {:exception=\>#\<LoadError: no such file to load -- logstash/filters/multiline\>, :path=\>"logstash/filters/multiline", :type=\>"filter", :name=\>"multiline"}

**This is my filter:**

```
input { 
        beats { 
                port => "5044"
        } 
}
filter {
  multiline {
      pattern => "^\s"
      what => "previous"
  }
  dissect {
    mapping => {
      "message" => "%{timestamp} | %{level} | %{subsystem} | %{route} | %{class} | %{message}"
    }
  }
  date {
    match => ["timestamp", "ISO8601"]
  }
}
output {
        elasticsearch { 
                hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
                index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
                document_type => "%{[metadata][type]}"
        }
}

```

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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:** [April 18, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-install-multiline-plugin-ubuntu-17-10/124975/2 "2018-04-18T11:49:44Z")

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