Hi Jochen.
Yes, I see this folder after the installation - /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/search-guard-6 , which is full with jar files , and 2 folders - sgconfig and tools.
I tried to install the standalone version of sgadmin that you gave me , and getting this error :
elasticsearch# bin/elasticsearch-plugin install -b file:///tmp/search-guard-6-6.4.2-23.2-sgadmin-standalone.zip
-> Downloading file:///tmp/search-guard-6-6.4.2-23.2-sgadmin-standalone.zip
[=================================================] 100%
Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/.installing-8113436727227829214/plugin-descriptor.properties
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214)
at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361)
at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407)
at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384)
at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginInfo.readFromProperties(PluginInfo.java:162)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.loadPluginInfo(InstallPluginCommand.java:713)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.installPlugin(InstallPluginCommand.java:792)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.install(InstallPluginCommand.java:775)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:231)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:216)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:77)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginCli.main(PluginCli.java:47)
Though I didn't uninstalled the previous version, the question if it's necessary, or can be installed upon.