Installing Elasticsearch on CentOS using RPM

[AndyB]

Hello,

I'm currently running ElasticSearch Version: 5.0.1 on my CentOS dedicated server. It also has cPanel, but I assume the easiest way for me to upgrade to ElasticSearch 6.0.0 is to use the RPM instruction located here:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/rpm.html

My question is, does it matter which directory I'm in after I SSH into my server? Do I just run the following three commands from the root directory?

Thank you

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

@AndyB

Do I just run the following three commands from the root directory?

That will work, yes.

[AndyB]

Thank you, warkolm.

The first two commands worked fine, but the last one appears to have some problems. This is a screen print of my terminal showing the messages:

What should I do?

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them

[AndyB]

I assume that I need to uninstall ElasticSearch Version: 5.0.1.

Is this the correct command?

yum remove elasticsearch

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Yes, that should remove the existing Elasticsearch. But you should also be able to install 6.0 over the top of 5.

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

It'd be worth reading https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/setup-upgrade.html

[AndyB]

I was able to install ElasticSearch 6.0 by first uninstalling 5.0 using the following command:

yum remove elasticsearch