# SonarQube Installation on Linux

By

Paul Tomoiu

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In 

SonarQube, 

installation, 

Linux

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Published 2022-12-03

This tutorial explains to you how to install SonarQube on Linux.

• Java 1.8 or above as per the version of the sonarqube. You can take a look here.

First, we need to create the directory which will keep SonarQube software:

mkdir -p /u01/sonarqube

The software could be downloaded from www.sonarsource.com.

or by using the wget command (from the directory in which we want to keep the software):

cd /u01/sonarqube
wget https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-9.8.0.63668.zip

I have chosen the Community Edition.

You can run the following command:

cd /u01/sonarqube
unzip sonarqube-9.8.0.63668.zip

Go to /u01/sonarqube/sonarqube-9.8.0.63668/bin/linux-x86-64 and run the following command:

./sonar.sh start

If you want you can create a Linux service for starting/stopping SonarQube.

If the Java version is not the right one, SonarQube will not start.

Other commands:

• stop SonarQube (Graceful shutdown)

./sonar.sh stop

• stop SonarQube (Hard stop)

./sonar.sh force-stop

• check SonarQube status

./sonar.sh status