# Install of apt package is failing **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-of-apt-package-is-failing/150385 **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:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### 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 --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-of-apt-package-is-failing/150385)._