splunk standalone local installation on debian

  Download the splunk install package. Run the installation on a x64 ubuntu/debian virtual machine. $ dpkg -i splunk*.deb After the installation the path will be /opt/splunk/ To run splunk for the first time $ sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start Accept the license agreement. Hit Enter for one line at a time, or spacebar to pagedown. After the you accept the licensing agreement splunk will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8000 and http://yourmachinename:8000 Enjoy.