This will cause class conflicts and may damage your instance.

Do not leave any old nexus-iq-server-.jar file in the lib directory.That is the command line scanner, and it cannot be on the class path of IQ Server.

Do not copy the nexus-iq-cli-.jar file into the lib directory.

There should only be one jar file - the IQ server versioned jar file you intend to start the server with - in the lib directory at any given time.

Copy the nexus-iq-server-.jar file from your installation into the 'lib' directory.

Replace the extracted conf/config.yml with the config.yml file from current Nexus IQ server installation (be sure to check the 'sonatypeWork' property in the copied version to make sure it is correct).

Download and extract the clm-jsw.zip file attached to this article into a directory path that does not contain spaces.

Ensure you have already installed the latest JDK from Oracle on the target system and the system meets our other system requirements.

New Nexus IQ Server Install as a Windows Service If you want to run the Nexus IQ Server as a service on Linux please see our installation guide. This knowledge base article provides instructions for running the Nexus IQ Server as a service under Windows using a free edition of Java Service Wrapper.

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