# Jvm.options missing while installing elasticsearch-oss
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158 "2020-11-03T12:54:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Haptomai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Haptomai)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/1 "2020-11-03T12:54:56Z")
Hi fellows,
- No docker version involved here
- Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
- v7.9.1
- OpenJDK 11.0.5
Yesterday I tried to switch from ELK Basic stack to OSS stack in order to use **OpenDistro**.
I removed elasticsearch, kibana and logstash from my ubuntu install. Purged dependencies.
Then I installed **elasticsearch-oss=7.9.1** as required for OpenDistro by using wget and dpkg, and I'm now unable to start elasticsearch because of a missing file: **/etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options**
I flushed this install and tried to install again with apt repository. Same issue.
The exact error is:
```auto
Starting Elasticsearch...
Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options
```
Could you please guide me on how can I fix this ?
Thx,
Mathis
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/2 "2020-11-03T13:25:19Z")
Not sure but may be you should ask for help in this project forum?
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### Author:  [@Haptomai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Haptomai)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/3 "2020-11-03T13:50:29Z")
I don't know, I could ask on OpenDistro forum too.
The strange thing is that basic install of Elasticsearch don't need/create a jvm.options file neither on that folder, and no error is displayed.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/4 "2020-11-03T14:38:42Z")
I have no idea. Not sure what is required to replace the standard distribution with the oss one.
If you purged everything, I guess this should work OOTB.
May be there are some remaining files somewhere?
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### Author:  [@Haptomai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Haptomai)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/5 "2020-11-03T14:51:33Z")
I did check on /etc/elasticsearch and /usr/share/elasticsearch, not here anymore after a apt autoremove.
I have no more clue. I'll try an older version of elasticsearch-oss and let see
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/6 "2020-11-03T15:08:49Z")
I guess you followed this guide?
> **[Install Elasticsearch with Debian Package | Elasticsearch Reference \[7.9\] |...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/deb.html)**
Specifically:
```auto
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss-7.9.3-amd64.deb
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss-7.9.3-amd64.deb.sha512
shasum -a 512 -c elasticsearch-oss-7.9.3-amd64.deb.sha512
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-oss-7.9.3-amd64.deb
```
Right?
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### Author:  [@Haptomai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Haptomai)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/7 "2020-11-03T15:33:37Z")
Exactly, just I changed to 7.9.1 version.
I used **locate** to locate (wow) the remaining files, and deleted them, but don't think the remaining one would cause a problem.
I'll try again.
Thx dadoonet for you investigation
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### Author:  [@Haptomai](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Haptomai)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/8 "2020-11-04T08:43:55Z")
Ok, I have great news !
I finally succeeded to start elasticsearch-oss and even Kibana too !
I removed every file containing "elastic" in its name 😛 and installed it with deb package.
Thanks @dadoonet for you patience 👌
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jvm-options-missing-while-installing-elasticsearch-oss/254158/9 "2020-12-02T08:43:58Z")
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