Splunk Installation in Fedora – Step-by-step

Installing

2. 2. Downloading Splunk

   Download Splunk for Fedora GNU/Linux

   Get Splunk .rpm for Fedora

   Splunk Enterprise for Fedora

3. 3. Installing Splunk

   Then to Set up Splunk on Fedora
   First, Access the Target, usually in the Downloads folder:
   (But if downloaded with Firefox it can be instead into /tmp/mozilla*)

   cd && cd Downloads

   To Check that there is run:

   ls . | splunk

   And to Setup Splunk:

   sudo rpm -ivh splunk*.rpm

4. 4. Setting Up Splunk User

   Now to Enable the Splunk User Shell Login
   Simply Set a Password with:

   sudo passwd splunk

   Now Login with this Pass as the splunk User:

   su splunk

5. 5. Amending User’s Path

   Again Append Splunk into the Path
   This to simplify Working with Splunk on CLI:

   echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/splunk/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

   Finally, Reload the Path with:

   bash