Install elasticsearch on ubuntu 1204

install java

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup.html

Elasticsearch is built using Java, and requires at least Java 7 in order to run [1.2.0]

sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-7-jdk

install elasticsearch

wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.2.1.deb
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.2.1.deb

start/stop es

sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start|stop

make es run on bootup

sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10