# Installing latest kibana plugin fails

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/installing-latest-kibana-plugin-fails/1958>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [September 10, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/installing-latest-kibana-plugin-fails/1958 "2020-09-10T15:43:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![faxmodem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/faxmodem/32/22_2.png) [@faxmodem](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/faxmodem)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/installing-latest-kibana-plugin-fails/1958/1 "2020-09-10T15:43:36Z")

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I’m trying to install the latest kibana and searchguard.  
I’m using the `kibana-oss` rpm from [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-oss-7.9.1-x86\_64.rpm](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-oss-7.9.1-x86_64.rpm)  
The plugin install is failing miserably:

```auto
$ sudo -u kibana bin/kibana-plugin install https://maven.search-guard.com/search-guard-kibana-plugin-release/com/floragunn/searc
h-guard-kibana-plugin/7.9.1-45.0.0/search-guard-kibana-plugin-7.9.1-45.0.0.zip
Plugin installation was unsuccessful due to error "ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir"

```

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**Author:** ![faxmodem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/faxmodem/32/22_2.png) [@faxmodem](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/faxmodem)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/installing-latest-kibana-plugin-fails/1958/2 "2020-09-10T15:50:24Z")

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apparently this also happens on 7.9.0 but not on 7.8.1-43.0.0

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**Author:** ![srgbnd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/srgbnd/32/506_2.png) [@srgbnd](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/srgbnd)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/installing-latest-kibana-plugin-fails/1958/3 "2020-09-11T06:07:26Z")

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Hi. Strange, it works on Ubuntu and macOS.

```bash
$ pwd
/Users/sergiibondarenko/Development/kibana/dist/kibana-7.9.1-darwin-x86_64
trex-macbook:kibana-7.9.1-darwin-x86_64 sergiibondarenko$ ./bin/kibana-plugin install https://maven.search-guard.com//search-guard-kibana-plugin-release/com/floragunn/search-guard-kibana-plugin/7.9.1-45.0.0/search-guard-kibana-plugin-7.9.1-45.0.0.zip
Attempting to transfer from https://maven.search-guard.com//search-guard-kibana-plugin-release/com/floragunn/search-guard-kibana-plugin/7.9.1-45.0.0/search-guard-kibana-plugin-7.9.1-45.0.0.zip
Transferring 38486864 bytes....................
Transfer complete
Retrieving metadata from plugin archive
Extracting plugin archive
Extraction complete
Plugin installation complete

```

Make sure kibana user has access to the kibana folder and its subfolders.

```bash
chown -R kibana:{kibanausergroup} /path/to/kibana

```

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**Author:** ![faxmodem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/faxmodem/32/22_2.png) [@faxmodem](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/faxmodem)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/installing-latest-kibana-plugin-fails/1958/4 "2020-09-15T10:57:01Z")

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Indeed, changing ownership to kibana of the whole of `/usr/share/kibana` fixed it.  
A shame elastic aren’t able to offer proper processes

thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/system/32/1870_2.png) [@system](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/installing-latest-kibana-plugin-fails/1958/5 "2020-10-06T10:57:05Z")

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