Step by step Install elasticsearch on wsl2 + ubuntu

install_elasticsearch_ubuntu_wsl2.sh

// elasticsearch version 7 
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss-7.5.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-oss-7.5.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512
shasum -a 512 -c elasticsearch-oss-7.5.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha512 
tar -xzf elasticsearch-oss-7.5.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd elasticsearch-oss-7.5.2/
echo 'export ES_HOME="$HOME/elasticsearch-7.5.2/"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$ES_HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

// elasticsearch version 6
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.8.20.tar.gz
wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-6.8.20.tar.gz.sha512
shasum -a 512 -c elasticsearch-6.8.20.tar.gz.sha512
tar -xzf elasticsearch-6.8.20.tar.gz
cd elasticsearch-6.8.20/
echo 'export ES_HOME="$HOME/elasticsearch-6.8.20/"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH="$ES_HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

// Just in case missing JAVA_HOME
// if not installed, do install first
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk
echo 'export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64"'  >> ~/.bashrc


Run with command:
elasticsearch

We require Docker since start-local install two services Elasticsearch and Kibana and this is the easy way to try the Elastic stack on-prem. That said start-local is not an installer is more a tool. If you cannot use Docker, I suggest to download the Elasticsearch Windows version here. You need also to download Kibana from here.

I use windows WSL2. And find non frontend programming comforting there