Installation example with tar
Let’s download the Elasticsearch 6.5.3 tar as follows:
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.5.3.tar.gz
Then extract it as follows:
tar -xvf elasticsearch-6.5.3.tar.gz
It will then create a bunch of files and folders in your current directory. We then go into the bin directory as follows:
cd elasticsearch-6.5.3/bin
And now we are ready to start our node and single cluster: