Can't Install Splunk 6.2 on Amazon EC2 Linux

[BrandSentiment]

I gave set up a Linux 64 instance on EC2. When I run-

wget -O splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz 'http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.t...'

I get:

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-41-244 opt]$ sudo su
[root@ip-172-31-41-244 opt]# wget -O splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz 'http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.t...'
--2014-11-09 08:33:24-- http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.t...
Resolving www.splunk.com (www.splunk.com)... 204.107.141.40
Connecting to www.splunk.com (www.splunk.com)|204.107.141.40|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: /page/sign_up/splunk [following]
--2014-11-09 08:33:25-- http://www.splunk.com/page/sign_up/splunk
Connecting to www.splunk.com (www.splunk.com)|204.107.141.40|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.splunk.com/page/sign_up/splunk [following]
--2014-11-09 08:33:25-- https://www.splunk.com/page/sign_up/splunk
Connecting to www.splunk.com (www.splunk.com)|204.107.141.40|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz’

[ <=>                                                                                  ] 79,132       468KB/s   in 0.2s   

2014-11-09 08:33:26 (468 KB/s) - ‘splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz’ saved [79132]

I then run

[root@ip-172-31-41-244 opt]# ls
aws splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz
[root@ip-172-31-41-244 opt]# tar xvzf splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@ip-172-31-41-244 opt]#

Tried everything I can think of but can't seem to install 6.2.
Please can you help. It is driving me cray!

[MuS · Accepted solution]

Hi BrandSentiment,

If I check the wget URL from the download page I get something like this:

wget -O splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz 'http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz&ac=test_modal_enterprise&wget=true&name=wget&platform=Linux&architecture=x86_64&version=6.2.0&product=splunk&typed=release'

running a test on this works perfect:

wget -O splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz 'http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz&ac=test_modal_enterprise&wget=true&name=wget&platform=Linux&architecture=x86_64&version=6.2.0&product=splunk&typed=release'
--2014-11-09 10:15:57--  http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.t...
Resolving www.splunk.com (www.splunk.com)... 204.107.141.40
Connecting to www.splunk.com (www.splunk.com)|204.107.141.40|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86... [following]
--2014-11-09 10:15:58--  http://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/6.2.0/splunk/linux/splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86...
Resolving download.splunk.com (download.splunk.com)... 204.107.141.44
Connecting to download.splunk.com (download.splunk.com)|204.107.141.44|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 89995592 (86M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz’

100%[=======================================================================================================>] 89,995,592   385KB/s   in 3m 57s 

2014-11-09 10:19:55 (371 KB/s) - ‘splunk-6.2.0-237341-Linux-x86_64.tgz’ saved [89995592/89995592]

cheers, MuS

[BrandSentiment]

Hi MuS,

I have done the same and it is working fine now. Many thanks

Jonathan