1. I downloaded vanilla Ubuntu Server 15.10 (you need about 10G disk space later)
2. Installed new version of gradle:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwchien/gradle
sudo apt-get install gradle 2.10
3. Installed oracle jdk8 and setup JAVA_HOME to point to it
cat >> /etc/environment
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_72"
^D
rm /usr/bin/java
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_72/bin/java /usr/bin/java
4. Downloaded latest elasticsearch mater snapshot from git and unzipped it
5. Run build, tests and package it:
gradle build
gradle test
gradle assemble
cd ./distribution/deb/build/distributions
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.deb
cd .../../../src/main/resources/config/
sudo cp elasticsearch.yml /etc/elasticsearch/
6. Start elasticsearch and do my own first request to it
curl -X GET http://localhost:9200/
{
"name" : "virtual-node-1",
"cluster_name" : "mycluster",
"version" : {
"number" : "3.0.0",
"build_hash" : "N/A",
"build_date" : "2016-01-28T09:29:44.971Z",
"build_snapshot" : true,
"lucene_version" : "5.5.0"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}