# Shield license installation error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-installation-error/37458>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [December 17, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-installation-error/37458 "2015-12-17T11:09:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Anusha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Anusha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anusha)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-installation-error/37458/1 "2015-12-17T11:09:23Z")

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Hi Team,

I have tried to install shield by the procedure given in this link  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/installing-shield.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/installing-shield.html)

I got installation error as shown in the below image

**D:\MyElasticSearch\elasticsearch-1.5.2\bin\>plugin -i license**  
**-\> Installing license...**  
**Trying [https://github.com/null/license/archive/master.zip](https://github.com/null/license/archive/master.zip)...**  
**Failed to install license, reason: failed to download out of all possible locati**  
**ons..., use --verbose to get detailed information**

Then I tried to download the license externally as per the information provided in the above link

**To install Shield on a machine that doesn’t have Internet access:Manually download the appropriate License and Shield binaries:[https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/plugin/license/2.1.0/license-2.1.0.ziphttps://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/plugin/shield/2.1.0/shield-2.1.0.zip](https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/plugin/license/2.1.0/license-2.1.0.ziphttps://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/release/org/elasticsearch/plugin/shield/2.1.0/shield-2.1.0.zip)**

Is there any way to solve this?????  
Or I need to download them externally??? If Yes  
Do I need download **license 1.5.2 and shield 1.5.2** as am using **elasticsearch 1.5.2** , if yes am unable to find the related jars,

can any one hlep me out to solve this issue......

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**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-installation-error/37458/2 "2015-12-17T11:44:37Z")

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Hi Anusha,

Since you are using elasticsearch 1.5.2, you will need to follow the [installation instructions for Shield 1.3](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/shield-1.3/getting-started.html) as the syntax is different for 2.0+.

> [@Anusha](#):
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> Do I need download license 1.5.2 and shield 1.5.2 as am using elasticsearch 1.5.2,

For elasticsearch 1.x, we tried to make Shield compatible with many different versions of elasticsearch so Shield 1.3 works for Elasticsearch 1.5.x to 1.7.x. Starting with elasticsearch 2.0, the version of shield and license need to be in sync with the elasticsearch version.

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**Author:** ![Anusha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Anusha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anusha)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-installation-error/37458/3 "2015-12-17T12:59:53Z")

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Hi Jay,

Thanks for response, and this working fine [quote="jaymode, post:2, topic:37458"]  
installation instructions for Shield 1.3  
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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, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shield-license-installation-error/37458/4 "2017-07-06T13:47:25Z")

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