[Koha] How to Update and Upgrade Koha

[Hector Gonzalez Jaime]

I forgot something, if koha requires additional software to be 
installed, when you run apt-get upgrade it will say something like this:

The following packages have been kept back:
   koha-common

In this case, you will need to do:

apt-get dist-upgrade

which will install the needed packages and then it will upgrade koha.


On 9/15/21 6:25 PM, Hector Gonzalez Jaime wrote:
> Hi, as with anything else, you should first have a good (tested) 
> backup of everything.  Koha, server software, and database.
>
> Then, if you used the debian packages, you should check which version 
> you are "tracking", something like:
>
> grep -Ri koha /etc/apt/*
>
> would return something like:
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list:deb 
> http://debian.koha-community.org/koha 19.11 main
>
> That means there is a file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/koha.list which you 
> should edit and change to the version you want to track now. The 
> content of the file would be:
>
> deb http://debian.koha-community.org/koha 21.05 main
>
> if you want to track koha 21.05
>
> Then you would:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
>
> and it should do the upgrade.  With the following exception, if 
> apt-get upgrade says it would need to update mariadb-server or 
> mysql-server, then you should upgrade that first and separately, like 
> this:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install mariadb-server-10.3
> apt-get upgrade
>
> If you don't upgrade mariadb first, it will be DOWN when koha wants to 
> upgrade the database, leaving you with a half upgraded system.  (And 
> using that backup).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On 9/15/21 6:04 PM, Charles Kelley wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>>      I think I have asked about this before, but I don't recall 
>> getting a
>> definitive answer. But it's awhile, so here goes.
>>
>>      I have seen announcements about updates and upgrades to Koha. 
>> ("Come
>> and get it!") Alas, I don't find instructions for installing updates and
>> upgrades. There are initial installation instructions aplenty, but 
>> alas, if
>> there are ones for updates and upgrades, I don't see them. So I ask:
>>
>>          How does one update or upgrades Koha?
>>
>>      Thanks for your help, everyone.
>>
-- 
Hector Gonzalez
cacho at genac.org