Installation Methods

The downloaded GZip’d TAR archive can be extracted with the command tar xvzf. For production it is not recommend that nexus be run from a users home directory, a common practice is to use /opt.

./nexus run

./nexus start

./nexus stop

The zip archive can be unpacked using the Windows compression utility or a third party utility such as 7zip. Nexus Repository Manager should not be installed in the Program Files directory to avoid problems with Windows file registry virtualization. If you plan to run the repository manager as a specific user you can install it into the AppData\Local directory of that users home directory. Otherwise simply use e.g., C:\nexus or something similar, ensuring that the user running the application has full access. The Nexus Repository Manager executable nexus.exe can be found inside the bin directory and can be run as an application using the following command:

nexus.exe /run

Starting the repository manager with the run command will leave it running in the current shell and display the log output. You can access the application once the the log shows the message "Started Sonatype Nexus". The running application can be stopped using CTRL+C at the appropriate console.

The nexus.exe executable can be used to manage the repository manager as a service with the /start, /stop, /restart, /force-reload and / status commands.