How to setup Jenkins on a linux system?

We are thinking to make use of the yum package.

Yum is not a package - it's a package manager - which you need to start to learn. It won't be difficult

Unless things have changed, yum does no dependency checking. So with CentOS, you'll have to install a package + then when the installation fails, install each dependency manually till all dependencies are installed.

With Debian/Ubuntu this is simplified, as the APT system auto-installs all dependencies, so a command like the following will install Jenkins + all required dependencies + likely integrate Jenkins into Apache, so you have a test system up + running (a guess, as I never use Jenkins).

apt-get install python-jenkins python-jenkinsapi

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If you're starting a new project, you might consider using Ubuntu (easier than Debian), so you're up + running faster.

David, yum does indeed perform a dependency check which are part of the package install requirement, I think you are confusing yum with rpm.

Thanks for expert - Arnold in suggesting the article. Finally, Jenkins server is up and running