Installing Elasticsearch with the Debian package

On Debian, before you can proceed with the installation process, you may need to install the apt-transport-https package first:

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

Save the repository definition to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list:

echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list

You can install the elasticsearch Debian package with the following code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch