Elasticsearch installation in Ubuntu 12.04

elasticsearch_install_ubuntu1204.sh

### Install java 7
sudo  apt-get update
sudo  apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless -y


### Check http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/ for latest version of ElasticSearch and replace wget link below
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.0.1.deb
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.0.1.deb

### NOT starting elasticsearch by default on bootup, please execute
sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10

### In order to start elasticsearch, execute
sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start

### connect to Elasticsearch
curl http://localhost:9200