Installing Splunk on Ubuntu

Download from splunk site

http://www.splunk.com/en_us/download.html

You have register to download the image.

Once downloaded.

cd /opt

# Make sure you download correct i386 or 64bit

wget 'new-splunk-version-link-goes-here' 
tar xvfz new-splunk-downloaded-version.tgz 
/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start 

Go to http://youripserver:8000 
user name/ password : admin/ changeme 


enjoy Splunking :)