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Which tool should I be using in order to be able to control Jenkins plugins from a cli/script in such way that when I have a new installation (e.g. 2.164.3)?

For example, I want to type blueocean - 1.1.15 (older version then current for example) and it will download the dependencies for the given version without messing everything else?

As I see I shouldn't be using jenkins-cli, but https://github.com/jenkinsci/plugin-installation-manager-tool? If so can anyone provide a simple example for the scenario I have given as the documentation is short of simple/clear examples.

The already existing topics are not answering the question in 2020 and I can't solve my scenario with them.

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Why not use Plugin installation manager tool?

Your alternative would be the install-plugins.sh referenced in the tool readme.md. You can explicitly list all plugins and versions or let it auto-resolve dependencies.

See also answer in S/O re:Jenkins plugins for old versions.

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  • My biggest problem is that I find the implementation not so straightforward. That is why I asked both for confirmation and example.Still confirming is good enough for me to continue trying, I will try out again today, if it works, I will accept the answer, if I find problems with it I will continue to wait someone to provide an example. Thanks.
    – anVzdGFub3RoZXJodW1hbg
    Jun 2, 2020 at 8:28
  • when I do java -jar jenkins-plugin-manager-1.0.2.jar --war /usr/share/jenkins/jenkins.war -l, I don't get the start pack plugins listed. I have tried this: java -jar jenkins-plugin-manager-1.0.2.jar --war /usr/share/jenkins/jenkins.war --plugins blueocean:1.15.0, it failed for one plugin, but other than it has downloaded in a specific folder that has nothing to do to where my plugins are stored. So my expectations was to see the plugins in Jenkins, but there is nothing it it.
    – anVzdGFub3RoZXJodW1hbg
    Jun 2, 2020 at 13:42
  • I have tried: java -jar jenkins-plugin-manager-1.0.2.jar --war /usr/share/jenkins/jenkins.war --plugins blueocean:1.15.0, I get a bunch of plugins downloaded, one was unable to be downloaded and I get after no plugins in the default folder, that tool is not useful for me at this point.
    – anVzdGFub3RoZXJodW1hbg
    Jun 3, 2020 at 8:15
  • Update 4, after a lot of debugging it looks like there is some kind of a bug whenever there is a permissions issue on the default DL folder (it doesn't throw warning about it). I have created new one and changed to it and all was executed successfully, it looks like yesterday I had another bad luck due to the global outage of Jenkins. So, right now I only need to understand what I need to do with the downloaded JPI and if all works out as expected, this will be what I needed.
    – anVzdGFub3RoZXJodW1hbg
    Jun 3, 2020 at 10:18
  • Final update, it worked for what I want to do with: mkdir plugin-management-cli; cd plugin-management-cli; wget https://github.com/jenkinsci/plugin-installation-manager-tool/releases/download/plugin-management-parent-pom-1.0.2/jenkins-plugin-manager-1.0.2.jar; --plugin-download-directory cd ~/plugin-management-cli/plugins/ sudo chown -R jenkins:jenkins ./* sudo cp -R ./* /var/lib/jenkins/plugins sudo systemctl stop jenkins sudo systemctl status jenkins sudo systemctl start jenkins sudo systemctl status jenkins
    – anVzdGFub3RoZXJodW1hbg
    Jun 4, 2020 at 10:17

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