# Logstash-forwarder Debian repository?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-debian-repository/26866>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 5, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-debian-repository/26866 "2015-08-05T09:07:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![michaelzoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@michaelzoet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaelzoet)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-debian-repository/26866/1 "2015-08-05T09:07:35Z")

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Hi all,

I have one simple question: is the logstash-forwarder Debian repository useable or not? I read a lot of discussions about this topic but they are all several months old. I also miss some final statement from Elastic about this.  
So it would be good to have a clear statement about this somewhere.

Background:  
I have setup Logstash (and Elasticseach, Kibana) using Lumberjack as an input resource.  
Now I want to distribute the logstash-forwarder via Puppet on several hosts. At the moment we have a copy of the logstash-forwarder Debian package on our own repository server to achieve this. We are ok with that but still the question remains if and how the logstash-forwarder repository works or not.  
Currently when I try to use the Debian repository mentioned in various discussions (like in [Availability of logstash-forwarder debian packages](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/availability-of-logstash-forwarder-debian-packages/22092)) I get a GPG key error even when I import the correct Elastic IP...

Thx in advance,  
Michael

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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:** [August 7, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-debian-repository/26866/2 "2015-08-07T01:46:19Z")

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It works.

What is the error you are getting?

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**Author:** ![michaelzoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@michaelzoet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaelzoet)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2015, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-debian-repository/26866/3 "2015-08-10T08:21:30Z")

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Hm interestingly this works now for me, too.

Two weeks ago I tested it on two different servers and I got an GPG error message when installing the package from deb [http://packages.elasticsearch.org/logstashforwarder/debian](http://packages.elasticsearch.org/logstashforwarder/debian) stable main

I tested this again on four different machines and now everything seems to be working. Really strange but I must have done something wrong two weeks ago.

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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 6, 2017, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-debian-repository/26866/4 "2017-07-06T05:32:28Z")

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