setupElasticSearch.sh

#!/bin/bash
# install elasticsearch VERSION on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)

VERSION=0.19.8

curl -OL -k http://github.com/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-$VERSION.zip
unzip elasticsearch-$VERSION.zip

sudo mv elasticsearch-$VERSION /usr/local/

if [ -L /usr/local/elasticsearch ]
  then sudo rm /usr/local/elasticsearch
fi

sudo ln -s /usr/local/elasticsearch-$VERSION /usr/local/elasticsearch

# fix wrong permission from the original zip
sudo find /usr/local/elasticsearch/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

curl -L http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-servicewrapper/tarball/master | tar -xz
sudo mv *servicewrapper*/service /usr/local/elasticsearch/bin/
rm -Rf *servicewrapper*

sudo chown -R root:root /usr/local/elasticsearch-$VERSION

# install init.d
if [ -L /etc/init.d/elasticsearch ]
  then sudo rm /etc/init.d/elasticsearch
fi
sudo /usr/local/elasticsearch/bin/service/elasticsearch install

if [ -L /usr/local/bin/elasticsearch ]
  then sudo rm /usr/local/bin/elasticsearch
fi
sudo ln -s `readlink -f /usr/local/elasticsearch/bin/service/elasticsearch`  /usr/local/bin/elasticsearch

# fix missing logs dir for first wrapper start
sudo mkdir /usr/local/elasticsearch/logs

# eof