I search on this issue in many websites , however , if i found , i found tuto related to old versions :

In fact , Installing is done successfully :

 sudo dpkg -i splunk-6.3.1-linux-2.6-amd64.deb 

However , i don't know how start it ?

1 Answer

The idea that the current version of Splunk create a user in your system named splunk with home directory is /opt/splunk

Thus :

1. Log-in as splunk :

sudo su - splunk; 

2. Check the current directory after log-in :

 pwd; # must be : /opt/splunk , if so , proceed 

3. Start the daemon :

 bin/splunk start # you will asked to agree the license => agree if you want to start daemon 

4. Waiting for the following message :

Waiting for web server at to be available.. Done

The Splunk web interface is at