# Shield Install failing?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-install-failing/1921>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [June 4, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-install-failing/1921 "2015-06-04T11:22:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![qubika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/qubika/32/513_2.png) [@qubika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qubika)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-install-failing/1921/1 "2015-06-04T11:22:23Z")

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Hi,

I've just tried to install shield on a new ES instance. Running the Step 1 plugin install from [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/shield](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/shield) fails and it looks as if it's because the github repo no longer exists.

```
bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/license/latest
bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/shield/latest

```

Can you help? I presume it's just a different path needs to be used and the documentation updated?

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**Author:** ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-install-failing/1921/2 "2015-06-04T11:48:48Z")

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Hi Stuart,

I just tested installing Shield and the licensing plugin according to the installation instructions on both ES 1.4.5 and ES 1.5. Can you post the error messages you're getting here?

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**Author:** ![qubika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/qubika/32/513_2.png) [@qubika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qubika)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-install-failing/1921/3 "2015-06-04T13:07:08Z")

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Argh - ignore. Must be my proxy doing something strange; I can get the file.

For reference I'm using ES 1.5.2 on a Windows 7 machine...

```
>bin\plugin -i elasticsearch/license/latest
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: ...
-> Installing elasticsearch/license/latest...
Trying http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/license/license-latest.zip...
Trying http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=elasticsearch/license/latest/license-latest.zip...
Trying https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content/elasticsearch/license/latest/license-latest.zip...
Trying https://github.com/elasticsearch/license/archive/latest.zip...
Trying https://github.com/elasticsearch/license/archive/master.zip...
Failed to install elasticsearch/license/latest, reason: failed to download out of all possible locations..., use --verbose to get detailed information

```

I manually downloaded from [http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/license/license-latest.zip](http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/license/license-latest.zip) and can get the file, so this is the issue. I'll just install it manually.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

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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 6, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-install-failing/1921/4 "2017-07-06T13:49:16Z")

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