Installing Elasticsearch on OSX Mavericks - elasticsearch

Question

I'm trying to install Elasticsearch 1.1.0 on OSX Mavericks but i got the following errors when i'm trying to start:
:> ./elasticsearch
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.elasticsearch.Version
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.buildErrorMessage(Bootstrap.java:252)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:236)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:32)
Also when i'm executing the same command with -v arg, i got this error:
:> ./elasticsearch -v
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: LUCENE_36
at org.elasticsearch.Version.<clinit>(Version.java:42)
Here's my environment:
Java version
>: java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)
Instalation path (downloaded .tar.gz archive from elasticsearch download page and extracted here):
/usr/local/elasticsearch-1.1.0
ENV vars:
JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home
CLASSPATH=/usr/local/elasticsearch-1.1.0/lib/*.jar:/usr/local/elasticsearch-1.1.0/lib/sigar/*.jar
UPDATE
i finally make it working, unfortunally not sure how because i tried a lot of changes :). But here's a list of changes i made that can help:
i removed jdk and jre and reinstalled on a clean env.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/mac_jdk.html#A1096855
i deleted all the cache dirs.I suppose this can be the 'cause' for that it's working now
~/Library/Caches
/Library/Caches
i removed CLASSPATH env var.
ES_PATH and ES_HOME env vars are not set either, but i think this is not so important.
Note: now it's working also if i'm installing with brew.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You should really consider using brew. It's a great tool that will take care of dependencies, version control and much more.
To install Elasticsearch using brew, simply:
brew update
brew install elasticsearch
Boom! Done.
After that follow Elasticsearch instructions :
To have launchd start Elasticsearch at login:
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/elasticsearch/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load Elasticsearch now:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
elasticsearch

Answer 2

As there are not very good instructions for actually "installing" it onto a Mac:
Short Version:
Install Java (prefer latest supported release)
Set JAVA_HOME environment variable.
Download Elasticsearch version (tar or zip).
Extract Elasticsearch from the downloaded file.
Run bin/elasticsearch from the extracted directory.
Long version:
Download Java
Only need the JRE if you will not be writing code on the same machine.
I assume that you are getting the latest JDK, which is currently JDK 8 (as you appear to have, and I have installed working on my machine).
Download and extract Elasticsearch and extract it into some directory.
For example: mkdir -p ~/dev/elasticsearch
Optionally move the downloaded file to there:
mv Downloads/elasticsearch* ~/dev/elasticsearch
Extract the downloaded file:
cd ~/dev/elasticsearch (if you moved it in step 2)
If it's the zip, then unzip elasticsearch-1.1.0.zip (or if you don't want to cd into the directory, then just run unzip elasticsearch-1.1.0.zip -d ~/dev/elasticsearch)
If it's the tar, then tar -xvf elasticsearch-1.1.0.tar.gz (or if you don't want to cd into the directory, then just run tar -xvf elasticsearch-1.1.0.tar.gz -C ~/dev/elasticsearch)
Cleanup (if you want) by removing the downloaded file:
rm elasticsearch-1.1.0.*
Open your .bash_profile file for your bash profile settings:
vi ~/.bash_profile
In the file, export your environment variable(s)
export ES_HOME=~/dev/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.1.0
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home
export PATH=$ES_HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
Close and re-open your Terminal OR
Run source ~/.bash_profile to update the environment variables
Run Elasticsearch:
elasticsearch
The more traditional way to run it is to do pretty much all of the above, but not add $ES_HOME/bin to the PATH. Then, just go to ES_PATH (cd $ES_PATH, then bin/elasticsearch) or run $ES_PATH/bin/elasticsearch.
Note: Do not setup your CLASSPATH without a very good reason. The scripts will do that for you.

Answer 3

You should try to using brew with last update:
brew update
And install Cask java:
brew cask install java
After that you can install elasticsearch:
brew install elasticsearch
And to have launched start elasticsearch now use:
brew services start elasticsearch
Or you can just run:
elasticsearch

Answer 4

To update ElasticSearch, just run brew upgrade elasticsearch

Answer 5

Update your java
brew update
brew cask install java
Install it with homebrew
brew install elasticsearch

Answer 6

install gpg &&
install java or jdk
1-Import the repository’s GPG key:
wget -qO - https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
2-this is code repository elasticserach in linux for download
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list
3-link download elasticsearch
https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch
if error
"Job for elasticsearch.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status elasticsearch.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details."
solution:
1-sudo journalctl -f
2-sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
3-sudo systemctl start elasticsearch