For running SonarQube server wee need fistly instal Postgresql dabase. Instruction is here.

And now we can start to install SonarQube.

First go here https://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/ click right button on “community edition” and choose copy link.
Next we download extract and rename folder with Sonaqube.

$cd /
# wget #past here your copied link for download cummintz edition of SonarQube.
$wget https://binaries.sonarsource.com/Distribution/sonarqube/sonarqube-7.7.zip
$sudo unzip sonarqube-7.7.zip -d /opt
$sudo mv /opt/sonarqube-7.7 /opt/sonarqube

Create user “sonar” set password and set permission for folder with Sonarqube.

$createuser sonar
$passwd sonar
$chown sonar. /opt/sonarqube -R

Create Postgresql user

$su - postgres
$psql
$ALTER USER sonar WITH ENCRYPTED password 'My_password';
$CREATE DATABASE sonar OWNER sonar;
$\q

Set properties for Sonarqube

$sudo nano /opt/sonarqube/conf/sonar.properties

sonar.jdbc.username=sonar
sonar.jdbc.password=sonar
sonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/sonar

$nano /opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh

RUN_AS_USER=sonar

Now we can try to start our Sonarqube by following command

/opt/sonar/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start

Creating systemd service for Sonarqube

$sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/sonar.service

[Unit]
Description=SonarQube service
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh start
ExecStop=/opt/sonarqube/bin/linux-x86-64/sonar.sh stop
User=sonar
Group=sonar
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

We we enable to start Sonarqube during boot the server, start the service and check the status of Sonarqube service

$sudo systemctl enable sonar
$sudo systemctl start sonar
$sudo systemctl status sonar