[Koha] How to Update and Upgrade Koha

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Hector, Well detailed instructions, it would help to have them on
the wiki page :)
Would you mind updating the existing section?
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian#Upgrade

Le jeu. 16 sept. 2021 à 01:44, Hector Gonzalez Jaime <cacho at genac.org> a écrit :
>
> 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
>
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