Upgrade filebeat from 1.1 to 1.2

[mt.michael]

Hi I'm currently have filebeat version 1.1.1 (amd64) on ubuntu 12.04.

I installed the older version by this page https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-installation.html

I wonder if I need to uninstall the older version first then follow the same pages instruction?

If I need to uninstall the previous ones then how do I do it? It seems there's no info about uninstall and upgrade?

[mt.michael]

I will answer my own question now since I solved it.

I did the following command to remove old filebeat

dpkg -r filebeat

Then I follow the same link to download/install the new one.

[magnusbaeck (Magnus Bäck)]

You can just install the new package file, it'll replace the old package. You should add the Filebeat repository to your APT configuration so that you can upgrade via apt-get upgrade.