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Repositories for APT and YUM

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Repositories for APT and YUM

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We have repositories available for APT and YUM-based distributions. Note that we provide binary packages, but no source packages.

We use the PGP key D88E42B4, Elasticsearch Signing Key, with fingerprint

4609 5ACC 8548 582C 1A26 99A9 D27D 666C D88E 42B4

to sign all our packages. It is available from https://pgp.mit.edu.

APT

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To add the Beats repository for APT:

Download and install the Public Signing Key:

curl https://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -

Save the repository definition to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/beats.list:
```
echo "deb https://packages.elastic.co/beats/apt stable main" |  sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/beats.list
```
To add the Beats repository, make sure that you use the echo method shown in the example. Do not use add-apt-repository because it will add a deb-src entry, but we do not provide a source package.

If you have added the deb-src entry by mistake, you will see an error like the following:
```
Unable to find expected entry 'main/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
```
Simply delete the deb-src entry from the /etc/apt/sources.list file, and the installation should work as expected.
Run apt-get update, and the repository is ready for use. For example, you can install Filebeat by running:
```
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install filebeat
```
To configure the beat to start automatically during boot, run:
```
sudo update-rc.d filebeat defaults 95 10
```

YUM

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To add the Beats repository for YUM:

Download and install the public signing key:

sudo rpm --import https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Create a file with a .repo extension (for example, beats.repo) in your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory and add the following lines:
```
[beats]
name=Elastic Beats Repository
baseurl=https://packages.elastic.co/beats/yum/el/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
gpgcheck=1
```
Your repository is ready to use. For example, you can install Filebeat by running:
```
sudo yum install filebeat
```
To configure the beat to start automatically during boot, run:
```
sudo chkconfig --add filebeat
```

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