# Upgrade elasticsearch from 6.5 to 6.8.1
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch-from-6-5-to-6-8-1/191182
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 18, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch-from-6-5-to-6-8-1/191182 "2019-07-18T11:01:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Hitesh\_Malhotra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hitesh_Malhotra)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch-from-6-5-to-6-8-1/191182/1 "2019-07-18T11:01:17Z")
Hi ,
I am trying to upgrade elastic from 6.5 to 6.8.1 by using
sudo yum install elasticsearch command but no luck
```
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* epel: repos.del.extreme-ix.org
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/centos/7.5.1804/os/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
To address this issue please refer to the below wiki article
https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors
If above article doesn't help to resolve this issue please use https://bugs.centos.org/.
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package elasticsearch.noarch 0:6.5.0-1 will be updated
---> Package elasticsearch.noarch 0:6.8.1-1 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=========================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=========================================================================================================================================
Updating:
elasticsearch noarch 6.8.1-1 kibana-6.x 142 M
Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 1 Package
Total download size: 142 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
elasticsearch-6.8.1.rpm | 142 MB 00:00:03
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
could not find java; set JAVA_HOME
error: %pre(elasticsearch-0:6.8.1-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package elasticsearch-6.8.1-1.noarch
elasticsearch-6.5.0-1.noarch was supposed to be removed but is not!
Verifying : elasticsearch-6.5.0-1.noarch 1/2
Verifying : elasticsearch-6.8.1-1.noarch 2/2
Failed:
elasticsearch.noarch 0:6.5.0-1 elasticsearch.noarch 0:6.8.1-1
```
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### Author:  [@Hitesh\_Malhotra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hitesh_Malhotra)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch-from-6-5-to-6-8-1/191182/2 "2019-07-19T04:52:21Z")
Hey,
can anybody help me ?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch-from-6-5-to-6-8-1/191182/3 "2019-07-19T06:32:48Z")
Read [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21) and specifically the "Also be patient" part.
It's fine to answer on your own thread after 2 or 3 days (not including weekends) if you don't have an answer.
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### Author:  [@Hitesh\_Malhotra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hitesh_Malhotra)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch-from-6-5-to-6-8-1/191182/4 "2019-07-19T07:16:46Z")
Thanks David
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-elasticsearch-from-6-5-to-6-8-1/191182/5 "2019-08-16T07:16:53Z")
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