Installing Elastic 2.0 on a clean Ubuntu 14.04 (single node)

elastic-ubuntu-14-install.sh

#java 8 – includes some interactive responses on your side
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
#test it:
java -version
#should be: java version “1.8.XX”

#fixing apt-get, installation and post service config
wget -qO – https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add –
echo “deb http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/2.x/debian stable main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elasticsearch-2.x.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch
sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10

#start service
sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start

#say hi
curl ‘http://localhost:9200?pretty';
#test response
#…You Know, for Search