# X-Pack on OSS

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143 "2018-08-27T09:41:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![slack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@slack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slack)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143/1 "2018-08-27T09:41:23Z")

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Hello,

Some time ago there was news on blog about X-Pack free features ([https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open](https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open)).  
According to such information I wonder if is possible to install X-Pack on -oss version ES?

Best regards,

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143/2 "2018-08-27T09:43:30Z")

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You can, but why not just use the packages that contain it?

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**Author:** ![slack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@slack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slack)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143/3 "2018-08-27T10:00:06Z")

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I have configured ES cluster from Bitnami template. When trying to install X-Pack plugin on oss 6.3 ES I got message

```auto
ERROR: X-Pack is not available with the oss distribution; to use X-Pack features use the default distribution

myelasticsearch0:/opt/bitnami/elasticsearch/bin# ls -al
total 264
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 7 18:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 21 06:37 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1777 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2291 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-env
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1839 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-env.bat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 345 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-keystore
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 439 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-keystore.bat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 335 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-plugin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 429 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-plugin.bat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104448 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-service-mgr.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103936 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-service-x64.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7482 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-service.bat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 348 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-translog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 442 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch-translog.bat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1534 Aug 3 14:58 elasticsearch.bat
root@myelasticsearch0:/opt/bitnami/elasticsearch/bin#

```

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143/4 "2018-08-27T10:01:23Z")

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Ahh ok, I didn't realise it did that.

Why not just use our packages then?

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**Author:** ![slack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@slack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slack)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143/5 "2018-08-27T10:05:43Z")

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At the moment there is no option to switch from oss packages

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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:** [September 24, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-on-oss/146143/6 "2018-09-24T10:05:46Z")

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