# Logstash install error **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [July 3, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-install-error/138455 "2018-07-03T21:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zekeriya\_tavlasoglu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zekeriya_tavlasoglu/32/42851_2.png) [@zekeriya\_tavlasoglu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zekeriya_tavlasoglu)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-install-error/138455/1 "2018-07-03T21:37:48Z")
Hi, when i try to install logstash on ubuntu, i am getting the error : what is the problem? can you help me. thanks. Zekeriya. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install logstash Get:1 [http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic-security InRelease [83,2 kB] Hit:2 [http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic InRelease Get:3 [http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic-updates InRelease [88,7 kB] Get:4 [http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu](http://tr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu) bionic-backports InRelease [74,6 kB] Ign:5 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable InRelease Hit:6 [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable Release Fetched 247 kB in 1s (201 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done logstash is already the newest version (1:6.3.0-1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 188 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up logstash (1:6.3.0-1) ... Using provided startup.options file: /etc/logstash/startup.options Unrecognized VM option 'UseParNewGC' _ **Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.** _ _ **Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.** _ _ **chmod: cannot access '/etc/default/logstash': No such file or directory** _ _**dpkg: error processing package logstash (--configure):**_ installed logstash package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: logstash E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ---
**Author:** ![hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@hamish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-install-error/138455/2 "2018-07-04T07:58:44Z")
I had the same problem yesterday. On my RHEL-7 installs it came down to an older version of IBM java being installed (Not sure why, it's a test system so has all sorts of stuff on it). I grabbed the latest 1.8\_171 and installed that separately then set JAVA\_HOME to run it rather than the system default one. ---
**Author:** ![Alper\_Mehmet\_Ozdemir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Alper\_Mehmet\_Ozdemir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alper_Mehmet_Ozdemir)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-install-error/138455/3 "2018-07-04T08:18:57Z")
Same here. But the issue was resolved when I explicitly downloaded java 8 instead of using ``` sudo apt-get install java-default ``` ---
**Author:** ![zekeriya\_tavlasoglu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zekeriya_tavlasoglu/32/42851_2.png) [@zekeriya\_tavlasoglu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zekeriya_tavlasoglu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-install-error/138455/4 "2018-07-11T15:17:22Z")
Thank you. i could install with java version 8. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-install-error/138455/5 "2018-08-08T15:17:23Z")
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