Overview

Artifactory can also be installed as an RPM package on RedHat compatible Linux distributions.
The RPM distribution is available starting with Artifactory 2.3.3.

The RPM package creates a dedicated user, installs a stripped-down distribution of the Apache Tomcat container configured for Artifactory (on port 8081 by default), and registers this Tomcat as a service (but does not start it immediately).
This package effectively replaces the different setup scripts that are included with the Artifactory zip distribution.

Requirements

Must be installed using the root user (or sudo).
An environment variable named JAVA_HOME pointing to the installation directory of JDK 1.5+ (the latest JDK 1.6 is highly recommended).

Managed Files And Folders

Purpose	Location	Ownership
Artifactory binary and Tomcat home	/opt/artifactory	root
Artifactory startup script	/etc/init.d/artifactory	root
Artifactory home	/var/lib/artifactory	artifactory
Artifactory etc	/etc/artifactory	artifactory
Artifactory logs	/var/log/artifactory	artifactory
Artifactory environment variables	/etc/artifactory/default	artifactory

MySQL Additional Configuration

The RPM includes a small CLI tool that assists with the configuration of Artifactory to use MySQL as a storage method (recommended).
After running the RPM installation process, it will offer you to run the MySQL configuration manually.
The tool is located in /opt/artifactory/bin/configure.mysql.sh and requires MySQL to be pre-installed and running.

Installing Artifactory

To install Artifactory use:

Running Artifactory

To start and stop Artifactory use the init script:

or-

Accessing Artifactory

Artifactory should be available under the following URL:

http://localhost:8081/artifactory

RPM Installation