Why doesn't Jenkins Update Center show certain plugins?

[John Lussmyer]

I've found a plugin I'd like to use via Google Search.  The "Text File Operations" plugin.
When I go to the Jenkins Update Center page, and click on the "Available" tab, that plugin isn't listed.

So, how do I add it?

[Daniel Beck]

> On 28. Jun 2017, at 18:29, John Lussmyer <johnlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When I go to the Jenkins Update Center page, and click on the "Available" tab, that plugin isn't listed.

Are you using at least Jenkins 1.580.1? Is the plugin not already installed?

[John Lussmyer]

Jenkins 1.616, and no, the plugin was not already installed.
I finally figured out which link on the page could be used to download the plugin, and used the Advanced tab to manually install the plugin.

[Baptiste Mathus]

Just for future ref, you generally don't want to do that apart from very specific cases (like for an offline instance). The update manager handles transitive dependencies, which won't be done manually. Hence you take the risk that the instance then refuses to start. The plugin shows up in https://updates.jenkins.io/current/update-center.json for 1.580.1 as Daniel said, so something else is (very?) wrong.

2017-06-28 22:14 GMT+02:00 John Lussmyer <johnlu...@gmail.com>:

Jenkins 1.616, and no, the plugin was not already installed.
I finally figured out which link on the page could be used to download the plugin, and used the Advanced tab to manually install the plugin.

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