Installing JFrog Artifactory in Ubuntu using deb file
2 min readDec 7, 2021
This post will deal with install JFrog Artifactory OSS using deb file in Ubuntu.
JFrog Artifactory is the only Universal Repository Manager supporting all major packaging formats, build tools and CI servers.
To download artifactory goto https://jfrog.com/open-source/ and click on Download Debian
If you are on shell you can use wget to get the deb file.
To Install
Open the terminal and navigate to location where you download jfrog-artifactory binary and type following command (Note: your deb file name may differ)
$ sudo dpkg -i jfrog-artifactory-oss-6.11.1.debOutput
Selecting previously unselected package jfrog-artifactory-oss.
(Reading database ... 84132 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack jfrog-artifactory-oss-6.11.1.deb ...
dpkg-query: no packages found matching artifactory
Checking if group artifactory exists...
Group artifactory doesn't exist. Creating ...
Checking if user artifactory exists...
User artifactory doesn't exist. Creating ...
Checking if ARTIFACTORY_HOME exists
Removing tomcat work directory
Unpacking jfrog-artifactory-oss (6.11.1) ...
Setting up jfrog-artifactory-oss (6.11.1) ...
Adding the artifactory service to auto-start... DONE************ SUCCESS ****************
The Installation of Artifactory has completed successfully.PLEASE NOTE: It is highly recommended to use Artifactory with conjunction with an external database (MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB). For details about how to configure the database, refer to https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Configuring+the+DatabaseYou can activate artifactory with:
> systemctl start artifactory.serviceThen check the status with:
> systemctl status artifactory.service
Processing triggers for systemd (239-7ubuntu10.14) ...
Installation Directory
By Default the artifactory would be installed in /opt/jfrog/artifactory/
Services
To check the status
systemctl status artifactory.serviceTo start the service (this may take some time)
systemctl start artifactory.service