# How to download the historical version of nexus3. X? **URL:** \ **Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\ **Tags:** help, nexus-repository\ **Created:** [January 8, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669 "2021-01-08T07:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![1127605495](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/c0e974/32.png) [@1127605495](https://community.sonatype.com/u/1127605495)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/1 "2021-01-08T07:37:18Z")
I want to download a version of nexus3. X. the link address I visit is: [Download Archives - Repository Manager 3](https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/download/download-archives---repository-manager-3). But every time I go in, it will show blank and can’t be downloaded. Can you tell me how to download it? Please tell the community friends! ---
**Author:** ![mpiggott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@mpiggott](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mpiggott)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/2 "2021-01-08T15:26:24Z")
Not sure what you mean by “show blank” but testing a random sampling of the download links work here. ---
**Author:** ![1127605495](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/c0e974/32.png) [@1127605495](https://community.sonatype.com/u/1127605495)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/3 "2021-01-11T01:19:11Z")
Each time you click the download button, you cannot open the download link address, as shown in the following figure: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/uploads/communitysonatype/original/2X/1/1979fb316d3b759942a163fc441919907fb9d048.jpeg) Is there any access restriction? ---
**Author:** ![mmartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mmartz](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mmartz)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/4 "2021-01-11T15:37:27Z")
If possible, can you provide the full set of HTTP headers? This will help our operations people track down the problem so it can get fixed. ---
**Author:** ![mmartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mmartz](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mmartz)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/5 "2021-01-11T15:40:54Z")
You can use curl to do this like so: ``` curl -I -L -s https://sonatype-download.global.ssl.fastly.net/repository/downloads-prod-group/3/nexus-3.29.0-02-unix.tar.gz HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 163835797 ... ``` ---
**Author:** ![mpiggott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@mpiggott](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mpiggott)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/6 "2021-01-11T18:36:07Z")
Someone in our ops team used a third party tool to test and it seems like the Chinese firewall is blocking access to the CDN. You could try building whichever version you’re interested in using the public repository, that won’t be exactly the same as the archived version as it will not include paid features or some free components that are not open source. > **[GitHub - sonatype/nexus-public: Sonatype Nexus Repository Open-source codebase...](https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-public)** > > Sonatype Nexus Repository Open-source codebase mirror ---
**Author:** ![1127605495](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/c0e974/32.png) [@1127605495](https://community.sonatype.com/u/1127605495)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/7 "2021-01-13T07:59:24Z")
Thank you for your help. Do you have an open source license? In other words, is the license entered here open source or enterprise level? ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/uploads/communitysonatype/original/2X/4/4b6e306ea4f1d3e72cabd4d3d8d5056918841b28.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![mmartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mmartz](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mmartz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/how-to-download-the-historical-version-of-nexus3-x/5669/8 "2021-01-13T16:05:48Z")
That’s just for an enterprise license. If you are just using the open source version you can ignore it.