Installing Hudson on RedHat, Oracle Enterprise Linux & other RPM Distros

On RPM-based distributions, such as Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Fedora, you can install Hudson through yum.

Recent versions are available in http://hudson-ci.org/downloads/redhat/ for manual download.

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Installation

1. sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/hudson.repo http://hudson-ci.org/redhat/hudson.repo
2. sudo yum check-update
3. sudo yum install hudson

What does this package do?

• Hudson will be launched as a daemon up on start. See /etc/init.d/hudson for more details.
• The hudson user is created to run this service.
• Log file will be placed in /var/log/hudson/hudson.log. Check this file if you are troubleshooting Hudson.

Where to go from here?

• Try Hudson locally : http://localhost:8080 and install whatever plugins and more you need.