Which version is recommended?

[DavidTurner]

You'll need to address that. I see you already have a topic on this subject open:

I downloaded and installed elasticsearch

**On Linux Mint. I extracted the archive tar.gz and cd into elasticsearch dir and ran ./bin/elasticsearch, ** The error message was: could not find java in the bundled jdk dir. I have Open JDK already installed on my system.

It's better not to make multiple posts on the same subject.