Saikeo Kavhanxay

Saikeo Kavhanxay

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How to install Elasticsearch 7.x on openSUSE

This is basic knowledge about installation Elasticsearch 7.x on openSUSE Leap 15.1

Introduction

Elasticsearch 7.0.0 has something for everyone. At Elastic, we constantly talk about speed, scale, and relevance: it’s in our source code. Elasticsearch 7.0 goes to exemplify this, as it’s the fastest, safest, most resilient, easiest to use version of Elasticsearch ever, and it comes with a boatload of enhancements and new features.

Before installing we need to check java version on openSUSE:

saikeo@openSUSE:~> java -version
If 'java' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this:
    cnf java
saikeo@openSUSE:~> 

In my case I didn’t install java yet. So we need to install java first. For openSUSE Leap 15.1 run the following as root:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Java:Factory/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/Java:Factory.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install java-1_8_0-openjdk

Now lets check java version again:

saikeo@openSUSE:~> java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_222"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 3.13.0) (build 1.8.0_222-b10 suse-lp151.334.1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.222-b10, mixed mode)
saikeo@openSUSE:~>

Download Elasticsearch 7.0

Go to download Elasticsearch via this link https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch

sudo wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-7.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Installation

Extract installation file by using the follwing command:

sudo tar -zxvf elasticsearch-7.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

after extract now go to inside folder and run Elasticsearch:

saikeo@openSUSE:~> cd elasticsearch-7.4.0/bin/
saikeo@openSUSE:~/elasticsearch-7.4.0/bin> ./elasticsearch

You will get the error output as the following:

saikeo@openSUSE:~/elasticsearch-7.4.0/bin> ./elasticsearch
future versions of Elasticsearch will require Java 11; your Java version from [/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0/jre] does not meet this requirement
Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/saikeo/elasticsearch-7.4.0/config/jvm.options
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
	at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214)
	at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361)
	at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407)
	at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384)
	at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152)
	at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:61)
saikeo@openSUSE:~/elasticsearch-7.4.0/bin> 

This error occurs because of file permission. We can check file permission by the following command:

saikeo@openSUSE:~> ll
total 285676
drwxr-xr-x 1 saikeo users         0 Oct 15 15:11 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root   root        144 Oct 21 15:32 elasticsearch-7.4.0

We need to give permission to current users.

saikeo@openSUSE:~> sudo chown -R saikeo:root elasticsearch-7.4.0

Now lets check the permission again:

saikeo@openSUSE:~> ll
total 285676
drwxr-xr-x 1 saikeo users         0 Oct 15 15:11 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 saikeo root        144 Oct 21 15:32 elasticsearch-7.4.0

Go to run Elasticsearch again:

saikeo@openSUSE:~/elasticsearch-7.4.0/bin> ./elasticsearch
future versions of Elasticsearch will require Java 11; your Java version from [/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0/jre] does not meet this requirement
[2019-10-21T15:46:12,585][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment    ] [openSUSE] using [1] data paths, mounts [[/home (/dev/sda2)]], net usable_space [91.2gb], net total_space [97.9gb], types [btrfs]
[2019-10-21T15:46:12,589][INFO ][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment    ] [openSUSE] heap size [1007.3mb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true]
[2019-10-21T15:46:12,595][INFO ][o.e.n.Node               ] [openSUSE] node name [openSUSE], node ID [JF8JBJnOTAiHtEcYXSJvVg], cluster name [elasticsearch]

Now we can run Elasticsearch and we can verify this installation by using the following command:

saikeo@openSUSE:~> sudo curl http://localhost:9200?pretty
{
  "name" : "openSUSE",
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "cluster_uuid" : "0S-a83_cRwSDpbIH3njlXQ",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "7.4.0",
    "build_flavor" : "default",
    "build_type" : "tar",
    "build_hash" : "22e1767283e61a198cb4db791ea66e3f11ab9910",
    "build_date" : "2019-09-27T08:36:48.569419Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "8.2.0",
    "minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "6.8.0",
    "minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "6.0.0-beta1"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
saikeo@openSUSE:~>

Congrats now you have successful install Elasticsearch on openSUSE Leap 15.1