Installing Elasticsearch on OSX Mavericks

You should really consider using brew. It’s a great tool that will take care of dependencies, version control and much more.

To install Elasticsearch using brew, simply:

brew update
brew install elasticsearch

Boom! Done.

After that follow Elasticsearch instructions :

1. To have launchd start Elasticsearch at login:

   ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/elasticsearch/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
   

2. Then to load Elasticsearch now:

   launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch.plist
   

   Or, if you don’t want/need launchctl, you can just run:

   elasticsearch