Submitted by ehu on Sat, 05/26/2018 - 03:19

Upgrading tarball installations

There are two steps to upgrading a LedgerSMB 1.5.x to 1.6:

Upgrade the software
Upgrade the company database

The last step must be executed for each company database that's set up.

These steps also apply when upgrading a 1.4 installation running Starman. To upgrade 1.4 installations not running on Starman, or to upgrade from earlier versions, please see Upgrading to Ledgersmb 1.5. Note that the default configuration for 1.4 runs CGI, not Starman.

Before upgrading, it is recommended to backup your databases.

Note that all the steps below are prefixed with the 'sudo' command, but can be executed as 'root' directly as well.

Upgrading the software

These are the steps to follow, assuming an installation from tarball:

Stop the LedgerSMB application server (e.g. Starman)
$ sudo service starman-ledgersmb stop

Back up the old software by moving it out of the way (assuming you installed in /usr/local/ledgersmb):
$ sudo mv /usr/local/ledgersmb /usr/local/ledgersmb.backup

Untar the tarball into /usr/local/ledgersmb:
$ sudo tar xf ledgersmb-1.6.x.tar.gz --directory /usr/local

Copy the configuration file from the old installation:
$ sudo cp /usr/local/ledgersmb.backup/ledgersmb.conf /usr/local/ledgersmb/

Upgrade the LedgerSMB Starman SysV or systemd scripts (the new scripts can be found in /usr/local/ledgersmb/conf/systemd/ )
$ sudo cp /usr/local/ledgersmb/conf/systemd/ledgersmb_starman.service /etc/systemd/system/ledgersmb.service
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Start the LedgerSMB application server again (Starman example given, as before):
$ sudo service starman-ledgersmb start

Upgrading the company database

After the software has been upgraded, the company database(s) must be upgraded. Otherwise, when a user logs in on a database with a different version compared to the software, a "Database version mismatch" error will be generated.

To upgrade the company database from the Web UI, navigate to the setup.pl page (e.g. when you're hosting your LedgerSMB on https://localhost/ and normally log in through https://localhost/login.pl, navigate to https://localhost/setup.pl). Log into setup.pl with the database admin credentials (the "lsmb_dbadmin" user, if you followed the installation instructions).

After login, setup.pl will show a screen with the following at the top: