# Downloading Nexus on ubuntu

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [January 23, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988 "2023-01-23T00:56:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![sookkidsclothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@sookkidsclothing](https://community.sonatype.com/u/sookkidsclothing)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988/1 "2023-01-23T00:56:25Z")

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Hi

I am a newbie trying to get into the world of Devops. As part of my learning I have to download Nexus as one of the repo manager package.

I want to avoid the licensed product but would like to learn how I can download the free version on Ubuntu and get started.

Thank you so much

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**Author:** ![jeff.wise](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/jeff.wise/32/2421_2.png) [@jeff.wise](https://community.sonatype.com/u/jeff.wise)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988/2 "2023-01-23T15:31:44Z")

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I would start with the documentation. See [Installation and Upgrades](https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/installation-and-upgrades).

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**Author:** ![sookkidsclothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@sookkidsclothing](https://community.sonatype.com/u/sookkidsclothing)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988/3 "2023-01-23T17:23:08Z")

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Hi Jeff

There is not much about installation. It shows you how to run nexus from command line.

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**Author:** ![jeff.wise](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/jeff.wise/32/2421_2.png) [@jeff.wise](https://community.sonatype.com/u/jeff.wise)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988/4 "2023-01-23T23:42:52Z")

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@sookkidsclothing – I see those instructions don’t tell you from where to download the distribution archive. Looking at the Dockerfile used to create the Nexus RM 3 docker image, you can see the distribution archive may be obtained from [https://download.sonatype.com/nexus/3/nexus-${NEXUS\_VERSION}-unix.tar.gz](https://download.sonatype.com/nexus/3/nexus-%24%7BNEXUS_VERSION%7D-unix.tar.gz). The current NEXUS\_VERSION is 3.45.0-01 as of today.

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**Author:** ![sookkidsclothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@sookkidsclothing](https://community.sonatype.com/u/sookkidsclothing)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988/5 "2023-01-23T23:55:43Z")

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Hi Jeff that link does not work. I also tried reinstalling again and I keep getting the same error. Perhaps I’ll remove the nexus user I created for the remote server to access nexus maybe the password authentication is failing somewhere??

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**Author:** ![jeff.wise](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/community.sonatype.com/jeff.wise/32/2421_2.png) [@jeff.wise](https://community.sonatype.com/u/jeff.wise)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988/6 "2023-01-24T14:30:57Z")

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`> curl -v https://download.sonatype.com/nexus/3/nexus-3.45.0-01-unix.tar.gz`

The above returns a 302 with location header of [https://sonatype-download.global.ssl.fastly.net/repository/downloads-prod-group/3/nexus-3.45.0-01-unix.tar.gz](https://sonatype-download.global.ssl.fastly.net/repository/downloads-prod-group/3/nexus-3.45.0-01-unix.tar.gz).

`> curl https://sonatype-download.global.ssl.fastly.net/repository/downloads-prod-group/3/nexus-3.45.0-01-unix.tar.gz --output nexus-3.45.0-01-unix.tar.gz`

The above downloads the distribution archive.

Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![sookkidsclothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@sookkidsclothing](https://community.sonatype.com/u/sookkidsclothing)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/downloading-nexus-on-ubuntu/9988/7 "2023-01-24T15:13:30Z")

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Hi

Thank you so much. Firstly i will remove everything and start a fresh download i will be poste.

Regards