If you are using Windows, download the installer zip, extract it somewhere, and execute the setup program.

Once the installer is complete, open http://localhost:8080/ to access the installed instance. This installer installs Nectar as a Windows service that starts automatically when your machine boots up.

Nectar can be installed as a Debian package, which enables the following things:

• Automatic upgrade to the next version via apt-get
• /etc/init.d hook up to start Nectar upon boot

To use this repository, first add the keys to your system:

wget -q -O - http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/nectar/debian/jenkins-ci.org.key | sudo apt-key add -

Then add the repository. If you have already added open-source Hudson/Jenkins as a repository, be sure to remove it to avoid Nectar from being overwritten by them:

echo deb http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/nectar/debian binary/ | 
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jenkins.list

Then install Nectar:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jenkins

If you are using RedHat/CentOS/Fedora, you can install Nectar as an RPM package for the following benefits:

• Automatic upgrade via yum
• /etc/init.d hook up to start Nectar upon boot

To use the repository, first add the key to your system:

sudo rpm --import http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/nectar/rpm/jenkins-ci.org.key

Then add the repository:

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/jenkins.repo http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/nectar/rpm/jenkins.repo

Then to install Nectar:

sudo yum update
sudo yum install jenkins

Alternatively, if you prefer to just download *.rpms, you can do so from here.

If you are using openSUSE, run the following command to register this repository to your openSUSE:

sudo zypper addrepo http://nectar-downloads.cloudbees.com/nectar/opensuse/ jenkins

With that set up, run sudo zypper install jenkins will install Jenkins Enterprise.