ElasticSearch.sh

### ElasticSearch version
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo ""
  echo "  Please specify the Elasticsearch version you want to install!"
  echo ""
  echo "    $ $0 1.4.0"
  echo ""
  exit 1
fi

ELASTICSEARCH_VERSION=$1

if [[ ! "${ELASTICSEARCH_VERSION}" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ ]]; then
  echo ""
  echo "  The specified Elasticsearch version isn't valid!"
  echo ""
  echo "    $ $0 1.4.0"
  echo ""
  exit 2
fi

### Install OpenJDK
cd ~
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless -y

### Download and Install ElasticSearch
### Check http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/ for latest version of ElasticSearch and replace wget link below
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-${ELASTICSEARCH_VERSION}.deb
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-${ELASTICSEARCH_VERSION}.deb

### Install the Java Service Wrapper for ElasticSearch
curl -L http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-servicewrapper/tarball/master | tar -xz
sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/elasticsearch
sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/bin
sudo mv *servicewrapper*/service /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/bin/
rm -Rf *servicewrapper*
sudo /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/bin/service/elasticsearch install
sudo ln -s `readlink -f /usr/local/share/elasticsearch/bin/service/elasticsearch` /usr/local/bin/rcelasticsearch

### Start ElasticSearch
sudo service elasticsearch start

### Make sure service is running
curl http://localhost:9200

### Should return something like this:
#{
#  "status" : 200,
#  "name" : "Storm",
#  "version" : {
#    "number" : "1.3.1",
#    "build_hash" : "2de6dc5268c32fb49b205233c138d93aaf772015",
#    "build_timestamp" : "2014-07-28T14:45:15Z",
#    "build_snapshot" : false,
#    "lucene_version" : "4.9"
#  },
#  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
#}

@janpieper: Good stuff!