# Installing elasticsearch logstash and kibana on a linux server error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 28, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931 "2016-02-28T03:32:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![bishaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bishaka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bishaka)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931/1 "2016-02-28T03:32:34Z")

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Hi,  
I was trying to install elastic search on a Linux server..however i get the following error saying it cannot find the java path

which: no java in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin)  
Could not find any executable java binary. Please install java in your PATH or set JAVA\_HOME

even though java JDK is still on the system it still cannot find it.

Please help!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931/2 "2016-02-28T03:40:53Z")

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How did you install java? Do you have `JAVA_HOME` set as it mentions?

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**Author:** ![bishaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bishaka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bishaka)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931/3 "2016-02-28T03:49:03Z")

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where is java suppose to be installed? I currently have it in a directory where every program should be able to see it...  
when i type java -version in putty..it tells me java exists in the system

I cannot find anything online showing me how to do the installation on a linux server

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**Author:** ![bishaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bishaka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bishaka)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931/4 "2016-02-28T05:05:59Z")

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problem fixed. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931/5 "2016-02-28T22:29:27Z")

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How did you fix it?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-a-linux-server-error/42931/6 "2017-07-05T23:13:02Z")

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