Build and deploy Sonarqube 6.7 from its GitHub source code

Hi Team/Folks,
I am very new to Sonarqube and I need to use Sonarqube 6.7 (I am aware that there are later versions to 6.7).
I am trying to build Sonarqube 6.7 from its source code (Source code (tar.gz)) available on GitHub https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/6.7
I have tried to follow the steps mentioned in https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube but this didn’t help much as there’s no “gradlew” file.
Please help me with the steps to follow.
Thanks,
Binay.

Hi Binay,

SonarQube 6.7 is the current Long Term Support version and can be downloaded here: https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-6.7.6.zip

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Hi Duarte,

Thanks a lot.
As I needed version 6.7, I downloaded that from https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-6.7.zip
But I couldn’t find any of the .java files or source codes. Please help.
I will also highly appreciate if you let me know the steps to build and deploy Sonarqube-6.7.

Thanks,
Binay.

I strongly recommend that you use v6.7.6 instead of v6.7 because it will include important bug fixes on top of v6.7.

These zip files contain SonarQube already built and are ready to deploy. They don’t include the source code.
You can find more information about the deployment here: https://docs.sonarqube.org/latest/setup/overview/

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Hi Duarte,

Thanks you so much again.

–Binay

In fact, you can also refer to the top-level SonarQube Downloads page: it’ll let you get the latest LTS version, and importantly too it also link to 6.7.x-specific links for What’s New and Documentation.

One last question for you Paul: can you share the core reason you absolutely need to go with 6.7.x, and cannot give a spin to latest versions? that can help us adapt our messaging/recommendations.

There is no such specific reason. I read across a few blogs which said 6.7.x/6.7 being very stable so preferred to give that a shot.

Hi Duarte,

As Sonarqube is open source, can you suggest me any repository or location from where I can download the source code of Sonarqube 6.7.6.

–Binay

Hi Binay,

Ack. In that case I suggest you go through this post too:

Because if you do have no specific reason to go with 6.7, then I would highly recommend you actually check-out latest versions, given the huge set of added functional value that was delivered since late 2017 (just glance at all these rich announcements to get a quick feeling of it: 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5).

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Hi Nicolas,

So finally I decided to go with v7.5 as its source code is available at https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube. I know that I can use the built releases but I need to build it from its source code and then use it.
However, building it from v7.5 source code available at https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube didn’t go smooth, I am now stuck with junit test case failure which caused the build to fail.
Internet wasn’t of much help in solving this. It will be great if I can get help here. PFB the screenshot:

This is very hard (for me) to understand without further explanations. Appreciate if you can explain why you need to build it from source code.

As far as compilation is concerned, I personally don’t have the knowledge to help on that.

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