Installing Kibana using .tar.gz

The Linux archive for Kibana v6.1.3 can be downloaded and installed as follows:

wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/kibana/kibana-6.1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Compare the SHA produced by sha1sum or shasum with the published SHA:

sha1sum kibana-6.1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar -xzf kibana-6.1.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

This directory is known as $KIBANA_HOME: 

cd kibana-6.1.3-linux-x86_64/