Nexus Repository Manager installation on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we will go through how to install and configure Sonatype Nexus Repository manager in CentOS 7/8.

1) Login to your Linux server and update it.

sudo yum update -y

sudo yum install epel-release -y

sudo yum install java-11-openjdk -y

2) Create a directory named app and cd into the directory.

sudo mkdir /app && cd /app

3) Download the latest nexus. You can get the latest download links fo for nexus from

sudo wget https://download.sonatype.com/nexus/3/latest-unix.tar.gz -O nexus.tar.gz

sudo tar -zxvf nexus.tar.gz

sudo ln -s nexus-* nexus

4) Create Nexus user and provide permissions to nexus home directory.

useradd nexus

chown -R nexus:nexus /app/nexus

5) Configure Nexus to run as Service in Linux machine.

sudo ln -s /app/nexus/bin/nexus /etc/init.d/nexus

sudo chown nexus:nexus /etc/init.d/nexus

sudo chkconfig --add nexus

sudo systemctl enable nexus

6) Start the nexus service.

sudo service nexus start

7) After few mins please access the Nexus Repository Manager at http://{hostname}:8081

Please add below line in Vagrantfile and restart your vm to access nexus UI on your browser. 

jenkins_config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8081, host: 8081

8) In the recent versions of nexus we need to configure admin password during our first time login. Onetime password will be located in below location. we need to use this password to configure admin password.

Run below command to see the default password.

cat /app/sonatype-work/nexus3/admin.password