Nexus manages software artifacts required for development, deployment, and provisioning. If you develop software, Nexus can help you share those artifacts with other developers and end-users. Nexus requires a "nexus" user and group; create these before running the SlackBuild script. Examples: # groupadd -g 252 nexus # useradd -u 252 -s /bin/sh -d /dev/null -g nexus nexus Should I Use 3.0 Or 2.x? We are advising that you use Nexus Repository 3.0 if you are planning to use npm, Bower, NuGet or Docker. If you are using Maven, we suggest that you continue to use Nexus Repository 2.x as we are still building features for 3.0 that many Maven folks will find handy.