How to Install and Uninstall elasticsearch Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "elasticsearch" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install elasticsearch on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "elasticsearch" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall elasticsearch on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the elasticsearch package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: elasticsearch
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 73
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers
Architecture: all
Version: 1.7.3+dfsg-3
Depends: adduser, default-jre-headless | java6-runtime-headless, libelasticsearch1.7-java, java-wrappers
Filename: pool/universe/e/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_1.7.3+dfsg-3_all.deb
Size: 17248
MD5sum: 75a29ca42c2014ca1dbd4dc4d958011f
SHA1: 2979385342fef111595686ae27adfe6721ddab64
SHA256: 52f782c2ddf1814fbc708856e15b74a91b7c59c0630639a7b63ae1e67a29aa0a
Description-en: Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Elasticsearch is a search server based on Lucene. It provides a
distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with a
RESTful web interface and schema-free JSON documents.
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This package contains the infrastructure needed to an ElasticSearch node.
Description-md5: dae3f74da91aa809c7b74dae0ccaab14
Homepage: http://www.elasticsearch.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu