How to Install JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu Linux

Richard

March 26, 2020

This tutorial outlines the step-by-step process of installing and setting up JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04. JFrog Artifactory is a cross-platform software that enables DevOps to manage various package repositories from a single platform. Relevant steps include updating the server, installing OpenJDK 8, downloading and installing JFrog, and accessing the Artifactory Portal.

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04.

JFrog Artifactory is a cross-platform software that allows DevOps to manage multiple package repositories hosted locally or in the cloud from a single platform.

You may want to install JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu Linux for several reasons: 1. Cross-platform support: JFrog Artifactory is a cross-platform software that runs on different operating systems, including Ubuntu Linux. You can easily manage your package repositories on Ubuntu Linux using JFrog Artifactory.

2. Centralized management: JFrog Artifactory allows you to manage multiple package repositories from a single platform. This makes it easier for DevOps teams to manage their packages, artifacts, and dependencies.

3. Integration with current environment: JFrog Artifactory can be easily integrated with your current environment, providing high availability with active/active clustering and multi-site replication. This automation enables faster releases and ensures that all packages are up-to-date.

4. Latest updates: Installing JFrog Artifactory from the APT repository ensures that you always get the latest updates as they’re released, which is important for keeping your package repositories secure and up-to-date.

Installing JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu Linux efficiently manages your package repositories and dependencies, which is crucial for DevOps teams working on complex software projects.

For more about JFrog Artifactory, please visit its homepage.

To get started with installing JFrog Artifactory, follow the steps below:

Prepare Ubuntu

Before installing packages on Ubuntu, you must first update the server. To do that, run the commands below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove

Running the commands above will update and remove obsolete packages from your system. It’s also good to reboot the server after running the above commands.

Install OpenJDK 8

To properly use JFrog Artifactory, you will need Java installed. First, download the Java 8 Development Kit: the official Oracle JDK or Open JDK.

For this tutorial, we’re going to install OpenJDK.

To do that, run the commands below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-doc

After installing Java, you can verify it by running the commands below:

java -version

It should output something similar, as shown below:

Output:
openjdk version "1.8.0_242"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-8u242-b08-0ubuntu3~18.04-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.242-b08, mixed mode)

Now that you have updated and installed Java continue to install JFrog below.

Download and Install JFrog Artifactory

The quickest and easiest way to get JFrog installed is via an APT repository. Installing JFrog from the repository will allow you always to get the latest updates as they’re released.

To install, follow the steps below:

First, install wget and other packages if you don’t already have them installed.

sudo apt install wget software-properties-common

Then, run the commands below to add the repository key and file to Ubuntu.

wget -qO - https://api.bintray.com/orgs/jfrog/keys/gpg/public.key | apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://jfrog.bintray.com/artifactory-debs $(lsb_release -cs) main"

When you’re done, run the commands below to update Ubuntu and install JFrog Artifactory.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install jfrog-artifactory-oss

After installation, the commands below can stop, start, and enable JFrog’s services.

systemctl stop artifactory.service
systemctl start artifactory.service
systemctl enable artifactory.service

To check the service status, run the commands below:

systemctl status artifactory.service

It should output similar lines as shown below:

artifactory.service - Artifactory service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/artifactory.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-03-26 20:34:28 CDT; 3s ago
  Process: 6249 ExecStart=/opt/jfrog/artifactory/app/bin/artifactoryManage.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 8345 (java)
    Tasks: 0 (limit: 4666)
   CGroup: /system.slice/artifactory.service
           ‣ 8345 /opt/jfrog/artifactory/app/third-party/java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/opt/jfrog/artifacto

Mar 26 20:34:28 ubuntu1804 artifactoryManage.sh[6249]: metadata started. PID: 8924
Mar 26 20:34:28 ubuntu1804 su[8792]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user artifactory
Mar 26 20:34:28 ubuntu1804 su[8931]: Successful su for artifactory by root

That should do it!

Access Artifactory Portal

When you’re done installing, open your web browser and browser to the server’s hostname or IP address as shown below:

http://localhost:8081/artifactory/

You should see the login portal similar to the one below:

You’ll be prompted to change the temporary Password above. When you do, you can start setting up your environment.

Enjoy!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to install JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu 18.04 | 16.04. If you find any error above, please use the form below to report it.

Thanks,

Comments

Atul

May 2, 2020

hi,
I am getting below error on page when entering URL : http://localhost:8081/
the error is :
{
“errors” : [ {
“status” : 500,
“message” : “Artifactory failed to initialize: check Artifactory logs for errors.”
} ]
}

please provide the solution for it so that jfrog can be installed properly.

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1. raghulraj
  
  May 15, 2020
  
  Check your server minimum configuration
  
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2. Lars
  
  May 26, 2020
  
  I am having the same issue i cant seem to find a solution it seems to be related to the access server of jfrog but im not sure how i can get it to work properly
  
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  1. Michael
    
    October 22, 2020
    
    Same here. Something on Port 8046 is not reachable according to the logs… Everything you find is a quick and easy installation but it just doesnt work out of the box for me (debian 9 in my case..)
    
    Plus, when trying to change ports (for example changing
    router:
    entrypoints:
    internalPort: 8046
    to something else like 9946) it will still try to access 8046. So configuration in system.yaml seems to be ignored.
    
    What is Server minimum configuration supposed to mean? Mariadb versions etc? All fits (yes you can have mariadb > 10.1 on Stretch 😉 ). Even though theres not database config attached here I got that running. It will still fail on connecting to port 8046/access after db configuration…
    
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Arindam

June 16, 2020

Hi,
Installation of Artifactory is getting completed with warnings as
“chown: invalid user: ‘artifactory:artifactory’
[WARN] Could not set owner of [/opt/jfrog/artifactory/var/etc] to [artifactory:artifactory]
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) …
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.41) …”

And the service is not coming up while using systemctl start artifactory.service

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1. Michael
  
  October 22, 2020
  
  Did you install with sudo?! Sometimes sudo was missing in the commands listed here
  
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Ramesh Akula

November 2, 2020

Hi All,
I am getting below mentioned error :
artifactory.version=7.10.5

/var/opt/jfrog/artifactory/etc# systemctl status artifactory.service
? artifactory.service – Artifactory service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/artifactory.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: resources) since Mon 2020-11-02 17:55:01 IST; 55s ago
Process: 19322 ExecStart=/opt/jfrog/artifactory/app/bin/artifactoryManage.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUC

: Failed to start Artifactory service.
: artifactory.service: Unit entered failed state.
: artifactory.service: Failed with result ‘resources’.
—————————
while Browsing the url , getting mentioned error:

{
“errors” : [ {
“status” : 500,
“message” : “Artifactory failed to initialize: check Artifactory logs for errors.”
} ]
}

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sai

February 3, 2021

Hi, getting below message while trying to start the artifactory.

“Job for artifactory.service failed because the control process exited with error code.”

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