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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ java -version
 echo $JAVA_HOME
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-Once we have Java set up, we can then download and run Elasticsearch. The binaries are available from http://www.elasticsearch.org/download[`www.elasticsearch.org/download`] along with all the releases that have been made in the past. For each release, you have a choice among a zip, tar, DEB, or RPM package. For simplicity, let's use the tar package.
+Once we have Java set up, we can then download and run Elasticsearch. The binaries are available from http://www.elasticsearch.org/download[`www.elasticsearch.org/download`] along with all the releases that have been made in the past. For each release, you have a choice among a `zip` or `tar` archive, or a `DEB` or `RPM` package. For simplicity, let's use the tar file.
 
 Let's download the Elasticsearch {version} tar as follows (Windows users should download the zip package):