When the user wants to manually install a specific/unpublished version of QMetry plugin, they can manually install that version on the Jenkins master by uploading the .hpi archive.Follow below steps to upload and install a offline plugin on a Jenkins Server using .hpi archive.:
Login to your Jenkins as a user with administrative privileges.
Select ‘Manage Jenkins’ from the navigation menu.
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Select the .hpi file from the window pop-up and click on the 'upload' button after the selection.
Once a plugin file has been uploaded, the Jenkins master must be manually restarted in order for the changes to take effect.
Note: When you perform this procedure for an existing plugin, the old plugin version is removed from the file system, and the new one is added.
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