先到官网https://www.elastic.co/cn/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-5-5-2下载，我安装的是5.5.2的版本，其他版本直接访问官网elastic.co下载需要的版本。注意：5.2.2版本使用的jdk是1.8，其他elastic版本要适当调整jdk版本，怎么安装jdk参照之前的随笔
进入官网页面之后
复制链接地址之后到linux中创建elastic目录，在elastic目录中使用命令 wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-5.5.2.tar.gz 下载
解压 tar -zxvf elasticsearch-5.5.2.tar.gz
解压之后进入bin目录，直接使用命令sh elasticsearch启动即可
此时如果用的是root用户会报如下错误，因为elastic search不能用root用户启动，解决办法有很多种，我用的是创建用户的方法
[root@localhost bin]# ./elasticsearch [2017-12-20T17:01:47,922][WARN ][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [node-1] uncaught exception in thread [main] org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:125) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:112) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:85) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:104) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:171) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:322) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:121) ~[elasticsearch-6.1.1.jar:6.1.1] ... 6 more
#创建用户
adduser elastic
#修改密码（输入要修改的密码，第二次输入是确定密码）
passwd elastic
#elastic文件夹权限赋给elastic用户
chown -R elastic elastic
#切换用户启动
su elastic
sh elasticsearch
看到如下信息说明启动完成，浏览器访问页面即可，默认监听9200端口
原文：https://www.cnblogs.com/xing-12/p/11428179.html