Solved: Simple way to obtain elasticsearch for ubuntu 12.04

Last month was able to obtain Elasticsearch for Ubuntu 12.04 in a fairly simple way for two Ubuntu 12.04 machines, but I no longer remember the exact sequence of commands.

I would appreciate someone helping me in this matter. I am trying to learn Logstash on a new Ubuntu 12.04 machine, using Elasticsearch.

Julianloui
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Last night I succeeded in installing elasticsearch-0.20.5.deb by downloading it from www.elasticsearch.org into my Ubuntu user directory, where I have placed all the logstash project-related files, such as logstash-elasticsearch.conf, logstash-simple.conf, logstash-1.1.9-monolithic.jar, and bashrc with many handy aliases specially created to simply my learning of logstash and elasticsearch.

I installed elasticsearch in my user directory as follows:
sudo dkpg -i elasticsearch-0.20.5.deb
sudo ap-get install -f
I verified my elasticsearch installation by doing the following sequence of commands
given by a tutorial at www.logstash.net:

java -jar logstash-1.1.9-monolithic.jar agent -f logstash-elasticsearch,conf
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:9200/_status?pretty=true | grep logstash
curl -s -XGET http://localhost:9200/logstash-2013.02.17/_search?q=@type:stdin

I hope this report may be of use to someone new to logstash and elasticsearch.

Julianloui