Splunk Install on Ubuntu 10.4

[chennai]

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.

[Vladimir · Accepted solution]

try to use sudo ./splunk start

[neilhaywood]

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

[Vladimir]

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

[ekoptilina]

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!

[allcapony]

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

[Vladimir]

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

[Shane]

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

[John_Mark]

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

[chennai]

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

[Genti]

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

[dwaddle]

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?

[chennai]

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