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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Tito on November 13, 2003, 05:59:45 PM
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Hi!
I have a working 5.5 version of SME and would like to upgrade it to a newer version. Because it´s a server at work is it safe to upgrade it to v.6 or should I just wait for the u version of 6? And just upgrade it to 5.6 for now? Is the dev version ex. 6.03b a good version that is reliable and does not need much of attention/maintenance? And if I upgrade it to the newest 6.03 how do I do it? And how do I also install the updates that are rpms files? What are those? I´m very new to this linux stuff. I don´t know much about these things and how to configure them. I just know the stuff in the server manager but not the commands at root. What would you suggest I should do?
Thanks,
Tito
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It is never a good idea to put beta software on a production box. I personaly would wait til the final release of 6 before I went over.
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wykyd wrote:
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> It is never a good idea to put beta software on a production
> box. I personaly would wait til the final release of 6 before
> I went over.
Looks like you're going to wait forever ...
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Isn't there going to be an 6.0 release?? (non beta?)
If so, what would be the problem running 6.0b on production server?
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Hello
If you install all of the lastest patches for 6.03 one of them removes the beta comment from the server-manager screens This might be the closest we are going to get to the final release
I have been running 6.03 since it's release and have had no problems other than the virtual domain patch had to be installed
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Yes if you go here:
http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/e-smith/dev/6.0dev/smeserver-6.0beta3-unsupported.iso
And then download all the updates from here:
http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/e-smith/dev/6.0dev/updates/6.0beta3/RPMS/
You should end up with a stable release.
Which as stated above many are using successfully.
From what I have been reading, There may not be any more Final GPL releases
Just the oppion of many.
Cheers
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Ok. Dumb question. Where exactly do I save those rpm files and whit what commands do I install them. How can I transfer them to the smb server from my windows xp machine? And to what catalog. I very new to this smb but eagar to learn.
thanks.
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there is a contrib called "update-system".
with this you can install RPM's with a server-manager panel.
try to search this forum for update-system...
cheers klaus
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Tito wrote:
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> Ok. Dumb question. Where exactly do I save those rpm files?
Create an I-bay with your server-manager,name it "rpms" "downloads"or whatever you like.
> and with what commands do I install them.
You need to log into your server as "root"
Type in rpm --help that will show you most of the options.
rpm -ivh rpmnamexxxxxx.rpm (whatever the rpm name is) to install.
or
rpm -Uvh rpmnamexxxxxx.rpm (whatever the rpm name is )if you are upgrading.
or
rpm -e rpmnamexxxxxx.rpm (whatever the rpm name is )if you what to remove an rpm .
>How can I transfer them to the sme server from my windows xp machine?
When you are downloading from the net, just point to the i-bay you created
using your "network neighbourhood"
You can can also navigate to your download i-bay (use Midnight commander)and download directly to the server from your root command prompt using the wget command.
(I.E.) wget Url:// whatever.com/sme/rpmnamexxxxx.rpm.
Also of course as it has been said many times, search the forums ,read the manuals and test on a test server before upgrading your production server.
Hope that helps
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For uninstalling you only have to put the rpmname not the version (xxxx above) or .rpm