# Problem in installing elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 20, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-installing-elasticsearch/132583 "2018-05-20T06:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NIloufarVafaei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NIloufarVafaei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NIloufarVafaei)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-installing-elasticsearch/132583/1 "2018-05-20T06:41:19Z")
i try to install elasticsearch.deb with this command / sudo apt-get install -f elasticsearch and after time span i get this error Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: elasticsearch 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 329 not upgraded. Need to get 27.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 30.5 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 [http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/2.x/debian](http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/2.x/debian) stable/main amd64 elasticsearch all 2.4.6 [27.2 MB] Fetched 27.2 MB in 1min 23s (327 kB/s) dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: statoverride file contains empty line E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) some one know what is wrong? ---
**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:** [May 20, 2018, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-installing-elasticsearch/132583/2 "2018-05-20T08:11:40Z")
How come you are installing 2.X? ---
**Author:** ![NIloufarVafaei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NIloufarVafaei](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NIloufarVafaei)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-installing-elasticsearch/132583/3 "2018-05-21T10:47:44Z")
sorry i could not understand what you ask. ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-installing-elasticsearch/132583/4 "2018-05-21T21:08:38Z")
The latest version of Elasticsearch is 6.2.4. Elasticsearch 2.X has reached end of life and is no longer actively supported. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-in-installing-elasticsearch/132583/5 "2018-06-18T21:08:42Z")
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