# Learner:Installing Elasticsearch from archive to Docker **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 14, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learner-installing-elasticsearch-from-archive-to-docker/97025 "2017-08-14T21:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stephenboston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@stephenboston](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenboston)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learner-installing-elasticsearch-from-archive-to-docker/97025/1 "2017-08-14T21:29:14Z")
I know there are elasticsearch dockers I could pull but I'm trying to understand so I'm starting from scratch. I'm in Ubuntu Mate 17.04. To be even more annoying, I want to avoid installing as a service because that route is fraught with issues -- so because apt install ES as service I have to install from the tarball. Quite happy with that. I like simple. On starting I get that old chestnut ... `max virtual memory areas vm.max_map_count [65530] is too low, increase to at least [262144` The only instruction I can find is to use sysctl which as I understand is a service setting, and indeed I find that setting the vm.max\_map\_count using sysctl has no effect. So ! What do I do? I'm open to being told I'm really off track with this, but if so please point me to the right track. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learner-installing-elasticsearch-from-archive-to-docker/97025/2 "2017-09-11T21:29:15Z")
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