# Unable to upgrade X-Pack license

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 4, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282 "2017-09-04T11:00:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![patbre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@patbre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/patbre)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282/1 "2017-09-04T11:00:27Z")

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Hello,

I have been using 30 days trial for X-Pack, which now has expired. I have registered and downloaded the Basic License and tried to upgrade it through license API (like in the Docs), but I encountered a problem. The license does not get updated due to error:

`{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"failed to parse license source"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"failed to parse license source","caused_by":{"type":"json_parse_exception","reason":"Unrecognized token 'patricija': was expecting ('true', 'false' or 'null')\n at [Source: org.elasticsearch.transport.netty4.ByteBufStreamInput@a011e6; line: 1, column: 11]"}},"statPatricijasPatriPatricijasPatricijasPatriPatriPatricijasPatriPatricijasPatricijasPatriPatricijasPatricijasPatriPatricijasPatriPatriPatricijasPatricijasPatricijas-MacBPatricijas-MacBook-Air:DoPatricijas-MacBook-APatricijas-MacBook-APatricijas-MacBook-APatricijas-MacBPatriPatricijasPatriPatricijasPatricijasPatricijas-MacBPatricijas-MacBPatricijasPatricijasPatricijasPatricijasPatricijasPatricijasPatriPatriPatriPatricijasPatricijas-MacBPatricijas-MacBPatricijasPatricijas-MacBook-Air:DoPatricijas-MacBook-APatricijas-MacBook-APatricijasPatricijasPatricijasPatricijasPatriPatricijas-MacBPatricijas-MacBook-APatricijas-MacBook-APatricijas-MacBook-APatricijasPatricijasPatriPatriPatriPatricijasPatricijas-MacBPatricijas-MacBPatricijas-MacBPatricijasPatricijasPatricijasPatriPatri`

I am quite confused about what is going on here 😕

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282/2 "2017-09-04T11:14:11Z")

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What command did you use to upgrade the license?

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**Author:** ![patbre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@patbre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/patbre)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282/3 "2017-09-04T11:19:22Z")

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I have used the one from the Docs:

`curl -XPUT -u elastic 'http://localhost:9200/_xpack/license' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d license_name.json`

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2017, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282/4 "2017-09-04T11:34:21Z")

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In order to send the contents off the file, the file name need to be preceded by a @: `-d @license_name.json`

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**Author:** ![patbre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f8ce5/32.png) [@patbre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/patbre)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282/5 "2017-09-05T19:10:39Z")

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Thank you!

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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:** [October 3, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-upgrade-x-pack-license/99282/6 "2017-10-03T19:10:57Z")

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