Purpose:
- This blog shows how to download and Install artifactory as a service on a linux machine
Pre-Requisites:
- A Linux development machine with sufficient CPU, memory, and hard disk space.
- JDK 8 installer – for the demo I am using jdk-8u92-linux-x64.tar.gz
Installing the JDK:
- Java can be downloaded from – http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
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For Linux download the installer and unzip it to preferred location.
- Move to the extracted directory and use command update-alternatives to tell system where java and its executables are installed.
| update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/bin/java 100 update-alternatives –config java |
| update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/bin/javac 100 update-alternatives –config javac |
| update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/jar jar /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_92/bin/jar 100 update-alternatives –config jar |
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After installation check the java version as in below snapshot.
Download and Install artifactory:
- Download the rpm repo file and install artifactory. See https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Installing+on+Linux+Solaris+or+Mac+OS for more information.
| wget https://bintray.com/jfrog/artifactory-rpms/rpm -O bintray-jfrog-artifactory-rpms.repo sudo mv bintray-jfrog-artifactory-rpms.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/ sudo yum install jfrog-artifactory-oss |
- Create a symbolic link to the Artifactory installation
| cd /opt/app ln -s /etc/opt/jfrog/artifactory/ /opt/app/artifactory |
- Start Artifactory.
| sudo service artifactory start |
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To access the artifactory open the link : http://host:8081/artifactory
- When you access the above URL for the first time, it prompts for setting a password. Set a password of your choice.
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Add maven remote repositories.
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