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Building Jenkins

General Notes:

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

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

Note: Jenkins version 2.568.2 was verified at the time of creation of these instructions

Download binary(.war) for Jenkins latest version from here.

1. Install Dependencies

  • RHEL 8.10

    sudo yum install -y tar wget curl lsof which fontconfig

  • RHEL (9.6, 9.7, 9.8)

    sudo yum install -y --allowerasing tar wget curl lsof which fontconfig

  • RHEL (10.0, 10.1, 10.2)

    sudo yum install -y tar wget curl lsof which fontconfig

  • SLES (15 SP7, 16)

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

  • Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04)

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y tar wget curl lsof coreutils fontconfig

2. Install Java

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

    • Download and install IBM Semeru Runtime (Java 21 or Java 25) on all above mentioned distributions from here.

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

    • Download and install Eclipse Adoptium Temurin Runtime (Java 21 or Java 25) on all above mentioned distributions from here.

  • With OpenJDK 21

    • RHEL (8.10, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2) 
      sudo yum install -y java-21-openjdk
    • Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04) 
      sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-21-jre
    • SLES (15 SP7, 16) 
      sudo zypper install -y java-21-openjdk

  • With OpenJDK 25

    • RHEL (9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2) 
      sudo yum install -y java-25-openjdk
    • Ubuntu (22.04, 24.04) 
      sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-25-jre
    • SLES (15 SP7, 16) 
      sudo zypper install -y java-25-openjdk

Note: Versions (v21.0.10_1 and v25.0.2_1) of IBM Semeru Runtime and (v21.0.10_7 and v25.0.2-10) of Adoptium Temurin Runtime were used at the time of creation of these instructions

3. Set environment variables

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

4. Start Jenkins server (Optional)

java -jar jenkins.war

For more details, refer to the official Jenkins documentation here.

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