Assume you have a mac and use brew. ES requires Java8 so do the following:
brew cask install homebrew/cask-versions/java8
brew search [email protected]
elasticsearch
Then, go to http://localhost:9200/ on your browser. If you can see the following, your are done.
{
name: "fsny2mM",
cluster_name: "elasticsearch_sangheekim",
cluster_uuid: "M6W6pX6jTMeVLI3BaAG11w",
version: {
number: "6.4.2",
build_flavor: "oss",
build_type: "tar",
build_hash: "04711c2",
build_date: "2018-09-26T13:34:09.098244Z",
build_snapshot: false,
lucene_version: "7.4.0",
minimum_wire_compatibility_version: "5.6.0",
minimum_index_compatibility_version: "5.0.0"
},
tagline: "You Know, for Search"
}