Install Splunk Light using the RPM package

To follow these installation instructions, replace splunk_package_name.rpm with the name of the installer package you downloaded.

. Run the rpm command.

Use the folllowing to install Splunk Light into the default directory.

 rpm -i splunk_package_name.rpm

Use --prefix to select another installation directory.

 rpm -i --prefix=/opt/new_directory splunk_package_name.rpm

. Start Splunk Light.

 splunk start --accept-license

. (Optional) To boot-start Splunk Light, add the following to /etc/init.d.

./splunk start --accept-license

./splunk enable boot-start