Topic: Software Installer Advice

[gbentley]

Hi, have  SME Server 7.0rc1 loaded and thought I would check to see how / if it needs updating.

The software installer suggests updates are available but when I click to install there is a blank page.

I have searched the list and read to run ;

yum clean metadata
yum update

What is the 'official' way of updating a release to the latest / secure / fixed versions ?

Thanks !

[cactus]

Hi, have  SME Server 7.0rc1 loaded and thought I would check to see how / if it needs updating.

The software installer suggests updates are available but when I click to install there is a blank page.

I have searched the list and read to run ;

yum clean metadata
yum update

What is the 'official' way of updating a release to the latest / secure / fixed versions ?

Thanks !

This has been brought up many times and is in the bugtracker as well, if I remember correctly it is a bug in parsing the list of RPM's in the webinterface. It was fixed in 7RC2. To get around it:
[list=1]

• Get access to your server command line
• Issue the following command which will update your system:
  Code: [Select]
  yum update
• Be sure to issue the last commands that yum suggests after the upgrade is done.[/list:o]

[gbentley]

Thanks Cactus - will this action effectively bring up RC1 to the same level as the latest release ?

Also, is it fairly safe to do on a clients server which is in constant use ?

[cactus]

Thanks Cactus - will this action effectively bring up RC1 to the same level as the latest release ?

Yes it should do.

Also, is it fairly safe to do on a clients server which is in constant use ?

I guess it will result in some problems, a lot of stuff is updated and eventually a reboot will be needed, so a little downtime will be there, maybe you can do it overnight?