# No config files found after install

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-config-files-found-after-install/123134>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 8, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-config-files-found-after-install/123134 "2018-03-08T20:11:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dpangallo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@dpangallo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dpangallo)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-config-files-found-after-install/123134/1 "2018-03-08T20:11:28Z")

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I installed logstash 6.2.2 via apt-get on Ubuntu 16.04 and everything seem to work ok except I'm missing all the config files; logstash.yml, pipelines.yml, etc... anyone know where/how I can download just the a copy of default config files?

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**Author:** ![dpangallo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@dpangallo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dpangallo)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-config-files-found-after-install/123134/2 "2018-03-08T23:05:57Z")

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I figured it out myself by downloading the tar file and grabbing the files needed from there.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-config-files-found-after-install/123134/3 "2018-03-09T07:05:21Z")

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It sounds very odd that those files would be missing. Where did you look? What does `dpkg-query -L logstash` say?

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**Author:** ![dpangallo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@dpangallo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dpangallo)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-config-files-found-after-install/123134/4 "2018-03-13T15:52:43Z")

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I checked in the folders: /etc/logstash and /usr/share/logstash  
All the bin and install files were installed in /usr/share/logstash  
I installed logstash via APT and I read somewhere that APT leaves /etc/logstash dir empty for some reason.

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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:** [April 10, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-config-files-found-after-install/123134/5 "2018-04-10T15:53:21Z")

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Closed on April 10, 2018, 3:53pm UTC

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