nexus Getting started with Nexus Repository Manager Installation on Linux

Example

Once you've met the prerequisites for installing Nexus Repository Manager 3, you'll need to follow a few steps to get it running on Linux.

• Open a terminal
• Copy the package to a sane place sudo cp nexus-3.1.0-04-unix.tar.gz /usr/local
• cd /usr/local
• Untar the Nexus Repository Manager package via a similar command: sudo tar xvzf nexus-3.1.0-04-unix.tar.gz
• Create a symlink for ease of use sudo ln -s nexus-3.1.0-04 nexus

Once you've done these steps you can run Nexus Repository Manager via the following command

./bin/nexus run

You should see a lot of logs come up, and you should be able to access Nexus Repository Manager via the following URL: http://localhost:8081

Voila!