Quickest Steps to Install any Splunk version really really easily

I’m using CentOS 6.6, but any Linux variant should work fine.

You want the .tgz file from here (use wget to downoad the file to the /tmp directory on your server):

http://ift.tt/18rHcT7. Mine looked like this:



wget -O splunk-6.2.2-255606-Linux-x86_64.tgz 'http://ift.tt/1FAMGVO'

--2015-02-26 01:30:13-- http://ift.tt/1FAMGVO


Extract splunk and put it in the /opt directory:



tar xvzf splunk-*.tgz -C /opt


Run Splunk for the first time:



/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start --accept-license


Set Splunk to start at boot:



/opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start