I'm running several installations of elasticsearch 1.X on ubuntu laptop without any issues, that installatios are made from zip. I downloaded version and when I try to run I found this error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to load bundle [] due to jar hell
Likely root cause: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.io.FilePermission" "/usr/share/java/jayatanaag.jar" "read")
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:372)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:559)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:549)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkRead(SecurityManager.java:888)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:206)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:145)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:154)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:91)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.JarHell.checkJarHell(JarHell.java:116)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadBundles(PluginsService.java:345)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.(PluginsService.java:112)
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:144)
at org.elasticsearch.node.NodeBuilder.build(NodeBuilder.java:145)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:168)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:266)
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35)
Refer to the log for complete error details.

Jayatana is installed by default on ubuntu to support global menu.