Installing Jenkins on Ubuntu

Run the following command to add the repository key to your system:

wget -q -O - https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add -

When the key is added, the system will return OK.

Next, we will append the Debian package repository address to the server's sources.list by running this command:

echo deb https://pkg.jenkins.io/debian-stable binary/ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list

Next, we need to update the repositories in the system by running the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Make sure to install Java as it is a dependency for Jenkins to run, so run the following command:

sudo apt install openjdk-9-jre

Next, we install Jenkins onto Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install jenkins ...

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