Not able to install Jmeter plugin manager in Linux Mint

Once run the JMeter from terminal of Linuxmint. the following error is thrown and in JMeter UI mode, UI->Option-> there is no any plugin manager available.

org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerMenuCreator: Was unable to install pmgr cmdline tool java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /usr/share/jmeter/bin/PluginsManagerCMD.bat
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:84)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.implDelete(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:244)
at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108)
at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165)
at java.nio.file.Files.copy(Files.java:3004)
at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerCMDInstaller.writeOut(PluginManagerCMDInstaller.java:24)
at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerCMDInstaller.main(PluginManagerCMDInstaller.java:12)
at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerMenuCreator.getMenuItemsAtLocation(PluginManagerMenuCreator.java:16)
at org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar.addPluginsMenuItems(JMeterMenuBar.java:579)
at org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar.makeOptionsMenu(JMeterMenuBar.java:356)
at org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar.createMenuBar(JMeterMenuBar.java:270)
at org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar.<init>(JMeterMenuBar.java:163)
at org.apache.jmeter.gui.MainFrame.init(MainFrame.java:458)
at org.apache.jmeter.gui.MainFrame.<init>(MainFrame.java:216)
at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.startGui(JMeter.java:234)
at org.apache.jmeter.JMeter.start(JMeter.java:382)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.jmeter.NewDriver.main(NewDriver.java:259)

2019/01/13 04:46:19 ERROR - org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerMenuCreator: Failed to load Plugins Manager java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/protocol/HttpContext
    at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManager.<init>(PluginManager.java:56)
    at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManager.<clinit>(PluginManager.java:44)
    at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerMenuItem.<init>(PluginManagerMenuItem.java:30)
    at org.jmeterplugins.repository.PluginManagerMenuCreator.getMenuItemsAtLocation(PluginManagerMenuCreator.java:22)
    at org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar.addPluginsMenuItems(JMeterMenuBar.java:579)
    at org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar.makeOptionsMenu(JMeterMenuBar.java:356)
    at org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.JMeterMenuBar.createMenuBar(JMeterMenuBar.java:270)

Answer

There are several issues:

1. By default in Linux Mint you have JMeter 2.13 from repositories which is a little bit outdated (released on 2015-03-14). Therefore there is no chance to use the latest Plugins Manager with JMeter 2.13, you need to try one of the previous versions

2. You don’t have write permissions to the folder where JMeter is installed, you will need to grant yourself permissions using chown command like:

   sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/share/jmeter
   

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In general, according to JMeter Best Practices you should always be using the latest version of JMeter. The steps of obtaining JMeter 5.0 with the plugins manager are the following:

1. cd ~
2. wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-5.0.zip
3. unzip apache-jmeter-5.0.zip
4. wget http://central.maven.org/maven2/kg/apc/jmeter-plugins-manager/1.3/jmeter-plugins-manager-1.3.jar -P apache-jmeter-5.0/lib/ext/
5. PATH=~/apache-jmeter-5.0/bin:$PATH && export PATH && jmeter
6. That’s it, you should now have the latest JMeter with the latest Plugins Manager up and running. Write down the command from the Step #5 and use it for launching JMeter