Thanks for this. Basically I am pondering why I should use a packaged version and why not.
I did use the most recent .jar to test and it works well but the what about the server part etc. Br Joris \-------- Oorspronkelijk bericht -------- Aan 17 mrt. 2021 18:07, Bridger Dyson-Smith < bdysonsm...@gmail.com> schreef: > > > > Hi Joris, > > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:39 AM commandline-be > <[commandl...@protonmail.com][commandline_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][commandline_protonmail.com] > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Wednesday, 17 March 2021 10:35, Christian Grün > > <[christian.gr...@gmail.com][christian.gruen_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. > > > > [commandline_protonmail.com]: mailto:commandl...@protonmail.com [christian.gruen_gmail.com]: mailto:christian.gr...@gmail.com
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