Installing ElasticSearch on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I have a VM running Ubuntu 12.04, and am trying to install ElasticSearch. I have followed this gist in the best \'learn X the hard way\' spirit, and everything installs fine - p

Answer 1

Depackaging the deb file available on the elasticsearch website worked fine for me:

sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.1.1.deb