How to install a plugin in Jenkins manually

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Installing a plugin from the Update center results in      Checking internet connectivity Failed to connect to   http   www google com   Perhaps you need to configure HTTP proxy  Deploy Plugin  Failure - Details hudson util IOException2  Failed to download from   http   updates jenkins-ci org download plugins deploy 1 9 deploy hpi   Is it possible to download the plugin and install it manually into Jenkins

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In my case  I needed to install a plugin to an offline build server that s running a Windows Server  version won t matter here   I already installed Jenkins on my laptop to test out changes in advance and it is running on localhost 8080 as a windows service   So if you are willing to take the time to setup Jenkins on a machine with Internet connection and carry these changes to the offline server Jenkins  it works  confirmed by me    these are steps you could follow    Jenkins on my laptop  Open up Jenkins  http   localhost 8080 Navigator  Manage Jenkins   Download plugin without install option Windows Explorer  Copy the downloaded plugin file that is located at  c  program files  x86  Jenkins plugins  folder  i e  role-strategy jpi  Paste it into a shared folder in the offline server Stop the Jenkins Service  Offline Server Jenkins  through Component Services  Jenkins Service Copy the plugin file  i e  role-strategy jpi  into  c  program files  x86  Jenkins plugins  folder on the  Offline Jenkins  server Restart Jenkins and voila  It should be installed

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This is a way to copy plugins from one Jenkins box to another   Copy over the plugins directory   scp -r jenkins-box url com  var lib jenkins plugins     Compress the plugins   tar cvfJ plugins tar xz plugins   Copy them over to the other Jenkins box   scp plugins tar xz different-jenkins-box url com ssh different-jenkins-box url com  tar xvfJ plugins tar xz -C  var lib jenkins    Restart Jenkins

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Download the plugin  Inside Jenkins  Manage Jenkins   Manage Plugins   There is a tab called Advanced and on that page there is an option to upload a plugin  the extension of the file must be hpi     Sometimes  when you download plugins you may get   zip  files then just rename with   hpi  and use the UI to install the plugin

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The accepted answer is accurate  but make sure that you also install all necessary dependencies as well  Installing using the CLI or web seems to take care of this  but my plugins were not showing up in the browser or using java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   localhost 8080 list-plugins until I also installed the dependencies

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Update for Docker  use the install-plugins sh script  It takes a list of plugin names minus the  -plugin  extension  See the description here   install-plugins sh replaces the deprecated plugins sh which now warns    WARN  plugins sh is deprecated  please switch to install-plugins sh  To use a plugins txt as per plugins sh see this issue and this workaround   RUN  usr local bin install-plugins sh   cat  usr share jenkins plugins txt   tr   n

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Yes  you can  Download the plugin    hpi file  and put it in the following directory    lt jenkinsHome gt  plugins    Afterwards you will need to restart Jenkins

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Sometimes when you download plugins you may get   zip  files then just rename with   hpi  and then extract all the plugins and move to  lt jenkinsHome gt  plugins  directory

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Use https   updates jenkins-ci org download plugins   Download it from this central update repository for Jenkins

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To install plugin  git  with all its dependencies   curl -XPOST http   localhost 8080 pluginManager installNecessaryPlugins -d   lt install plugin  git current    gt     Here  the plugin installed is git   the version  specified as  current is ignored by Jenkins  Jenkins is running on localhost port 8080  change this as needed  As far as I know  this is the simplest way to install a plugin with all its dependencies  by hand   Tested on Jenkins v1 644

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If you use Docker  you should read this file  https   github com cloudbees jenkins-ci org-docker blob master plugins sh  Example of a parent Dockerfile   FROM jenkins COPY plugins txt  plugins txt RUN  usr local bin plugins sh  plugins txt   plugins txt   lt name gt   lt version gt   lt name2 gt   lt version2 gt

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I have created a simple script that does the following    Download one or more plugins to the plugin directory Scan all plugins in that directory for missing dependencies download this dependencies as well loop until no open dependencies are left   The script requires no running jenkins - I use it to provision a docker box   https   gist github com micw e80d739c6099078ce0f3

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The answers given work  with added plugins   If you want to replace update a built-in plugin like the credentials plugin  that has dependencies  then you have to use the frontend  To automate I use    curl -i -F file  pluginfilename hpi http   jenkinshost jenkins pluginManager uploadPlugin

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