splunk was installed on a machine and we wanted to reinstall it.
What I did is I stopped Splunk, removed directory and restarted server.
I still got this error so I went to the run level and removed the process from runnig and took server restart.
Still I am facing the same issue of "package splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4.x86_64 is already installed"
Please let me know how can I install splunk and begin configuration again.
[splunk@Search3~]$ sudo rpm -ivh /opt/splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm
warning: /opt/splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 653fb112: NOKEY
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
package splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4.x86_64 is already installed
Thanks.
Vikram.
Try this sudo rpm -ivh /opt/splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm --force
Try this sudo rpm -ivh /opt/splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm --force
Thanks this force command worked.
I give klaxdal a plus point because it works
Hi vikram_m,
you have to remove package from RPM
rpm -e package splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4.x86_64.rpm
and after reinstall it.
Bye.
Giuseppe
I have the same issue but in windows. Could you advise how i could reinstall splunk?
kind regards
Thanks Giuseppe
but I tried this command and had a server restart still I am getting the same error. 😞
Thanks.
Vikram.
Installed 7.2.6 on a new server (Fedora 30) at home. Did this exact same thing. Thanks for this post. As a newbie to Linux, this saved me a lot of grief.
try to use tar instead rpm, you have only to create splunk user and splunk group (if they aren't for the previous installation).
Bye.
Giuseppe