# Problem while installing Marvel

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-while-installing-marvel/34056>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 6, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-while-installing-marvel/34056 "2015-11-06T21:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![parthu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@parthu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/parthu)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-while-installing-marvel/34056/1 "2015-11-06T21:29:20Z")

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Could any of you help me with this error I am getting:  
./bin/plugin install elasticsearch/marvel/latest

Stack trace of errror:  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'ES\_RACK'  
at org.elasticsearch.common.property.PropertyPlaceholder.parseStringValue(PropertyPlaceholder.java:124)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.property.PropertyPlaceholder.replacePlaceholders(PropertyPlaceholder.java:81)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.ImmutableSettings$Builder.replacePropertyPlaceholders(ImmutableSettings.java:1060)  
at org.elasticsearch.node.internal.InternalSettingsPreparer.prepareSettings(InternalSettingsPreparer.java:101)  
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginManager.main(PluginManager.java:389)

I must agree that ES\_RACK is an environment variable I am setting in a file called setenv and not in elasticsearch.yml.  
How do I come over this error?

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**Author:** ![niraj\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/niraj_kumar/32/4130_2.png) [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-while-installing-marvel/34056/2 "2015-11-06T23:00:55Z")

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What version of ES you have?

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**Author:** ![parthu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@parthu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/parthu)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-while-installing-marvel/34056/3 "2015-11-09T14:29:31Z")

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It's 1.4.4.

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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 5, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-while-installing-marvel/34056/4 "2017-07-05T23:39:46Z")

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