Building Jenkins

Building Jenkins

Latest installers for Ubuntu and RHEL are available here. Also .deb and .rpm available through release page

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

Note: Jenkins(v2.346.1) was verified at the time of creation of these instructions

Download binary(.war) for Jenkins latest version from here. Following are the dependencies to be installed.

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.4, 8.6, 9.0)

  • With IBM SDK

     sudo yum install -y tar wget
    

    • RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.4, 8.6):

      sudo yum install -y java-1.8.0-ibm
      

    • RHEL 9.0:
      Download and install IBM SDK Version 8 from here.

  • With IBM Semeru Runtime (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK openj9)

     sudo yum install -y tar wget curl fontconfig
    

    • Download and install IBM Semeru Runtime (Java 8 or 11) from here.

  • With Eclipse Adoptium Temurin Runtime (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK hotspot)

     sudo yum install -y tar wget curl fontconfig
    

    • Download and install Eclipse Adoptium Temurin Runtime (Java 11) from here.

• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP3, 15 SP4)

  • With IBM SDK

     sudo zypper install -y java-1_8_0-ibm tar wget dejavu-fonts gawk
    

  • With IBM Semeru Runtime (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK openj9)

     sudo zypper install -y curl tar wget dejavu-fonts gawk fontconfig gzip
    

    • Download and install IBM Semeru Runtime (Java 8 or 11) from here.

  • With Eclipse Adoptium Temurin Runtime (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK hotspot)

     sudo zypper install -y curl tar wget dejavu-fonts gawk fontconfig gzip
    

    • Download and install Eclipse Adoptium Temurin Runtime (Java 11) from here.

• Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04, 22.04)

  • With IBM SDK

     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install -y wget
    

    • Download and install IBM Java 8 from here.

  • With IBM Semeru Runtime (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK openj9)

      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install -y tar wget libfontconfig1
    

    • Download and install IBM Semeru Runtime (Java 8 or 11) from here.

  • With Eclipse Adoptium Temurin Runtime (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK hotspot)

      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install -y tar wget libfontconfig1
    

    • Download and install Eclipse Adoptium Temurin Runtime (Java 11) from here.

• Set environment variables

   export JAVA_HOME=<path to Java installation directory>
   export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

• Start Jenkins server

   java -jar jenkins.war

Note: Open http://<ip_address>:8080 in your browser to access Web UI. Make sure firewall isn't blocking this port.

References:

• https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins.git
• https://jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/#war-file