Hi Hans-Jürgen, Should this perhaps be part of the official documentation? Especially > installation and upgrade deserve maximum attention and helpfulness. >
I certainly agree. Suggestions are always welcome, either via this list or as directed edits in our Wiki. I hoped that the existing information on how to install BaseX is self-explanatory enough, but maybe we should add more details? Or are you specifically missing hints on how to update certain distributions (such as the ZIP distribution)? Viele Grüße Christian > Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2021, 18:07:38 MEZ hat Bridger Dyson-Smith < > bdysonsm...@gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben: > > > Hi Joris, > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:39 AM commandline-be <commandl...@protonmail.com> > wrote: > > ok, thanks. > > > If i can i will try and figure out an upgrade approach or see if i can run > a backport which does have the more recent version available. > > I've found that something like this following works very well for me > across several operating systems: > > ``` > cd ~/bin > mkdir basex-src basex-data > wget https://files.basex.org/releases/BaseX.zip > unzip BaseX.zip > rm -rf basex/src basex/data > ln -s ~/bin/basex-src ~/bin/basex/src; ln -s ~/bin/basex-data > ~/bin/basex-data > ``` > You can include the ~/bin/basex directory path in your environmental $PATH > and you're off to the races. > > Subsequent updates are basically grabbing the ZIP archive, unpacking it, > removing the default src and data directories, and recreating the symbolic > links. > All of your database info is kept separately from the defaults, so you > don't worry about overwriting in an upgrade. > > It's still manual and necessitates some steps, but it's been an easy > method for me across several different unix-like operating systems (Redhat, > Void, and FreeBSD) that don't have a package for installation. > > I know some other people have posted similar approaches here on the > mailing list, but I can't think of an easy search term to help locate them. > > > Essentialy, i dislike Ubuntu a lot and Arch well, i never got round to > arch really. > > Best, > > Joris > > HTH > Best, > Bridger > > > > > - - - > mailto:commandl...@protonmail.com > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, 17 March 2021 10:35, Christian Grün < > christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Linux is eays, everything is a file. It are the specifics which make > it hard, particularly configuration. > > > > > Right. At the moment, there is no automatized process to get the > > Debian/Ubuntu distribution updates automatized. > > > > > > I think my issue with the Preferences panel may come from running the > most recent basex and it overwriting configuration files since it writes a > message to screen saying it overwrites the configuration file. > > > > > Thanks for the insight. If you want to stick with the old version of > > BaseX, you can delete the .basexgui file (which includes the GUI > > configuration) to resolve the issue. > >
