topic Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4 in Deployment Architecture

Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

chennai — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:05:38 GMT

Hi! I am new to Splunk. I just download the Splunk 4.1.4 tar file and untar on the host, What is the next step to configure Splunk on my Ubuntu Server.

Currently I am planning to configure splunk on ubuntu 10.4. Please sned me the documentation. Thanks.

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

dwaddle — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:10:43 GMT

You might start at http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Installation/InstallonLinux followed by http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Installation/StartSplunkforthefirsttime

BTW, you do know Splunk is available in .deb package format, which Ubuntu can natively install being a derivative of debian?

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

Genti — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:11:46 GMT

cd to the dir where you untared
cd splunk/bin/
./splunk start

Please read the installation docs found at: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Installation/InstallonLinux

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

chennai — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:54:14 GMT

Thank you very much for you help. I will check it out.

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

John_Mark — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:53:10 GMT

Install the .deb. It works flawlessly on Ubuntu 10.04.

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

chennai — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:45:22 GMT

Hi, what is exact package name so that I can use aptitude to Install it on my ubuntu server.

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

Shane — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:08:11 GMT

splunk-4.1.5-85165-linux-2.6-intel.deb if you're using the 32 bit Ubuntu

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

allcapony — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:39:38 GMT

Hi, can any one tell me how do I install splunkforwarder?

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

Vladimir — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:15:04 GMT

try to use sudo ./splunk start

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

Vladimir — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:43:46 GMT

If you are using debian/ubuntu:
- download deb package
- in terminal lanch: sudo dpkg -i splunk_package_name.deb

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

ekoptilina — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:28:26 GMT

Thank you, Vladimir! I had the same problem with unability to create "/opt/splunk/etc/licenses/enterprise", your advice to use "sudo ./splunk start" helped!

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

Vladimir — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:32:19 GMT

one note I forgot to say... if you have splunk user in your system it'd be better to use "sudo -u splunk ..." to run under this user
before this command probably you will need to run "sudo chown -R splunk:splunk /opt/splunk" to change the owner from root to splunk

Re: Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

neilhaywood — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:32:15 GMT

I know its old, but you shouldnt be running splunk as root.
Install as a splunk user. Then if this issue arises, do.

As Root:

chown -R splukuser:splunkuser /opt/splunk/

Then as splunkuser

$ splunk start