# Install of apt package is failing **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 28, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-of-apt-package-is-failing/150385 "2018-09-28T20:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![meatwad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/meatwad/32/36031_2.png) [@meatwad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/meatwad)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-of-apt-package-is-failing/150385/1 "2018-09-28T20:12:28Z")
Hi. I'm just getting started with elastic and am having an issue installing the package from the apt repo. Here's the output: Fri 28 Sep 19:24:00 root@elastic [~] # sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch Hit:1 [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic InRelease Get:2 [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB] Ign:3 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable InRelease Get:4 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable Release [4,360 B] Get:5 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable Release.gpg [473 B] Get:6 [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB] Get:7 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable/main amd64 Packages [27.0 kB] Get:8 [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages [388 kB] Fetched 591 kB in 1s (397 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: elasticsearch 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 97.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 151 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable/main amd64 elasticsearch all 6.4.1 [97.9 MB] Fetched 97.9 MB in 5s (20.8 MB/s) Selecting previously unselected package elasticsearch. (Reading database ... 102199 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../elasticsearch\_6.4.1\_all.deb ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch\_6.4.1\_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\_6.4.1\_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This is a dedicated ubuntu 18.04.1 KVM VM that I just spun up and has plenty of space storage so that's not the issue: # df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 115G 2.1G 113G 2% / Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![meatwad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/meatwad/32/36031_2.png) [@meatwad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/meatwad)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-of-apt-package-is-failing/150385/2 "2018-09-28T21:19:51Z")
OK, I found what the problem is. I extracted the .deb and in DEBIAN/preinst, if it doesn't find java, it just exits with an error code of 1 (the 'echo' statements are never displayed, the install just fails). I added 'default-jre' to the Depends line of DEBIAN/control: Depends: bash, libc6, adduser, coreutils, default-jre Then rebuilt the .deb. It installs successfully if the default-jre package is already installed and installs it as a dependency if it's not: # apt-get install ./elasticsearch-6.4.1-mine.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'elasticsearch' instead of './elasticsearch-6.4.1-mine.deb' The following additional packages will be installed: default-jre Suggested packages: default-java-plugin The following NEW packages will be installed: default-jre elasticsearch 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,092 B/82.4 MB of archives. After this operation, 151 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic/main amd64 default-jre amd64 2:1.10-63ubuntu1~02 [1,092 B] Get:2 /tmp/elasticsearch-6.4.1-mine.deb elasticsearch all 6.4.1 [82.4 MB] Fetched 1,092 B in 1s (867 B/s) Selecting previously unselected package default-jre. (Reading database ... 116894 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../default-jre\_2%3a1.10-63ubuntu1~02\_amd64.deb ... Unpacking default-jre (2:1.10-63ubuntu1~02) ... Selecting previously unselected package elasticsearch. Preparing to unpack /tmp/elasticsearch-6.4.1-mine.deb ... Creating elasticsearch group... OK Creating elasticsearch user... OK Unpacking elasticsearch (6.4.1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... Setting up default-jre (2:1.10-63ubuntu1~02) ... Setting up elasticsearch (6.4.1) ... Created elasticsearch keystore in /etc/elasticsearch Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.3) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... I know you probably don't want to necessarily lock users into using the default-jre package but if they're going through the trouble of installing the elasticsearch package from the repo, that's probably what they'll want to install anyway. Cheers ---
**Author:** ![rjernst](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rjernst/32/6363_2.png) [@rjernst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rjernst)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-of-apt-package-is-failing/150385/3 "2018-09-28T21:46:51Z")
Thanks for reporting this. We are aware of the issue and plan to do something about it. See the comments in [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/31845](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/31845) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-of-apt-package-is-failing/150385/4 "2018-10-26T21:46:52Z")
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