Installing Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch can be installed in four easy steps:

  1. Download the Elasticsearch packaged in a ZIP file from https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch.
  2. Extract Elasticsearch from the ZIP file upon download.
  3. Run Elasticsearch from your terminal. Thus, run bin/elasticsearch (bin/elasticsearch.bat on Windows):

After executing bin/elasticsearch in your terminal, Elasticsearch will run on your system:

After running Elasticsearch, you can check if it's functioning properly by running the following command from your terminal: ...

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