# Installing Jenkins

Go to Jenkins official website and download Jenkins for Ubuntu/debian. [https://www.jenkins.io/download/](https://www.jenkins.io/download/)

[![image.png](http://wiki.lalco.la/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/scaled-1680-/QCJimage.png)](http://wiki.lalco.la/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/QCJimage.png)

Then run the commands that is shown in the page. It should look something like below:

[![image.png](http://wiki.lalco.la/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/scaled-1680-/FXyimage.png)](http://wiki.lalco.la/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/FXyimage.png)

NOTE: Don't need to run the following command since java is already installed previously.

```
$ sudo apt-get install fontconfig openjdk-17-jre
```

After successfully installing Jenkins, run the following command to start Jenkins.

```
$ sudo systemctl start jenkins
```

To see if Jenkins is running, run the following command.

```
$ sudo systemctl status jenkins
```

Then you will get something like this:

[![image.png](http://wiki.lalco.la/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/scaled-1680-/0VDimage.png)](http://wiki.lalco.la/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/0VDimage.png)

  
IMPORTANT: Copy the password from above, you will need it when setting up Jenkins.