# Minor problem with documentation for es debian installation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172 "2019-09-19T09:55:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jillesvangurp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jillesvangurp/32/3863_2.png) [@jillesvangurp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jillesvangurp)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172/1 "2019-09-19T09:55:24Z")

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The documentation for installing the debian package suggests running:

`echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list`

We added this to our chef scripts and this of course runs a lot and ends up appending the same line over and over again. This slows down apt-get operations to the point where it is unusable. When I checked the file it had 500 lines already.

I would suggest changing this to

`echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt`/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list

without the -a. or to  
`echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list`

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**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:** [September 19, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172/2 "2019-09-19T13:16:47Z")

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Hey Jilles,

do you mind open a PR or a doc issue for this one?

--Alex

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**Author:** ![jillesvangurp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jillesvangurp/32/3863_2.png) [@jillesvangurp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jillesvangurp)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172/3 "2019-09-19T13:30:53Z")

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Sure, I wasn't sure whether this needed further discussion or whether there is a usecase for this file to have multiple entries. Do you have separate tags for documentation issues?

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**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:** [September 19, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172/4 "2019-09-19T13:44:44Z")

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indeed, there's a dedicated `>docs` tag

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**Author:** ![jillesvangurp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jillesvangurp/32/3863_2.png) [@jillesvangurp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jillesvangurp)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172/5 "2019-09-19T13:45:20Z")

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> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/46868>

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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:** [October 17, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/minor-problem-with-documentation-for-es-debian-installation/200172/6 "2019-10-17T13:46:01Z")

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