# Issue When Upgrading Elasticsearch v5.2.2 to V5.6.8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-when-upgrading-elasticsearch-v5-2-2-to-v5-6-8/122869 "2018-03-07T11:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sreejiths](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sreejiths](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sreejiths)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-when-upgrading-elasticsearch-v5-2-2-to-v5-6-8/122869/1 "2018-03-07T11:33:34Z")
I am trying to upgrade my development ELK stack running on a Single VM(No cluster) ..Below is the details of the error ..i am doing something wrong ..Please advice OS : Centos 7 Current ELK version : V5.2.2 New version : V5.6.8 Have shutdown the services before trying upgarde . trying to upgrade using rpm image ...Below is the error [root@XXX bin]# sudo rpm --install elasticsearch-5.6.8.rpm file /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /etc/elasticsearch/log4j2.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /etc/init.d/elasticsearch from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/NOTICE.txt from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/README.textile from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch.in.sh from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/aggs-matrix-stats/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/ingest-common/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/lang-expression/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/lang-groovy/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/lang-mustache/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/lang-painless/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/percolator/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/reindex/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/transport-netty3/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/transport-netty4/plugin-descriptor.properties from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch file /usr/share/elasticsearch/modules/transport-netty4/plugin-security.policy from install of elasticsearch-0:5.6.8-1.noarch conflicts with file from package elasticsearch-0:5.2.2-1.noarch [root@XXXX bin]# ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-when-upgrading-elasticsearch-v5-2-2-to-v5-6-8/122869/2 "2018-03-07T16:35:15Z")
can you try to run `rpm -Uvh elasticsearch.rpm` , so that you run an upgrade and dont try to do a new installation? --Alex ---
**Author:** ![sreejiths](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@sreejiths](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sreejiths)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-when-upgrading-elasticsearch-v5-2-2-to-v5-6-8/122869/3 "2018-03-08T06:36:40Z")
Thanks a lot ..ELK is upgraded .. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-when-upgrading-elasticsearch-v5-2-2-to-v5-6-8/122869/4 "2018-04-05T06:36:45Z")
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