Unable to install splunk-4.3.1-119532-Linux-i686

[shangshin]

Hi,
I downloaded splunk-4.3.1-119532-Linux-i686.gz on line, extracted, and ran the command /splunk start. However, I got the error message below. I would appreciate if you can advise on how to make it work.

Thanks,
Shangshin

/apps/cores/splunk/bin/splunkd: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/apps/cores/splunk/bin/splunkd: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Checking prerequisites...
Checking mgmt port [8089]: /apps/cores/splunk/bin/splunkd: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
open
/apps/cores/splunk/bin/splunkd: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
SSL certificate generation failed.

[Ayn · Accepted solution]

Did you really run splunk start and not splunkd start? You'd get those errors if you tried to run splunkd directly.

[shangshin]

problem solved. Thanks!

[Ayn]

You're using the wrong flags for tar. You should be running tar zxvf, not tar xvf, in order to have the file gunzipped.

[shangshin]

It turns out linux version only works for wget download. http download won't work.

On the other hand, I got the error message to untar the file on 32-bit linux.

Any advice? Thanks!

'http://www.splunk.com/index.php/download_track?file=4.3.1/splunk/linux/splunk-4.3.1-119532-Linux-i68...'

31740819 Apr 6 19:08 splunk-4.3.1-119532-Linux-i686.tgz

tar xvf splunk-4.3.1-119532-Linux-i686.tgz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors