appendix setting up elasticsearch if java isn' installed or you don' have high enough versionelasticsearch recommends the oracle version of java use the following console commands to install it sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd team/java sudo apt-get install oracle-java -installer now you can install elasticsearch add the elasticsearch repowhich is the latest one at the time of writingto your repo list and then install it with the following commands sudo add-apt-repository "deb elasticsearch/ /debian stable mainsudo apt-get update &sudo apt-get install elasticsearch to make sure elasticsearch will start on rebootrun the following command sudo update-rc elasticsearch defaults turn on elasticsearch see figure sudo /etc/init /elasticsearch start figure starting elasticsearch on linux if linux is your local computeropen browser and go to localhost: is the default port for the elasticsearch api see figure figure the elasticsearch welcome screen on localhost