Web UI backend Tools and information Update

#page: Update

The software Updater of the web ui.

#Version check in web ui

If a new version exists you get a direct link to this page.

Remark: you can check or apply a software update on command line too.

#On start

It checks if a newer version exists.

• If not it show an OK message that you are up to date.
• If a new version exists it show your current and the latest available version.

#Buttons

• Continue interactive mode to download new software archive and install it. Use it the first time to see how the updater works.
• Update in a single step This is the one click updater method.

#Start update

The updater has a bit intelligence. It detects if it was installed by git (git pull) or by a manual download to define the update method.

• Git
  A git pull wil be started
• manual installation
  • A TGZ archive will be downloaded from sourceforge.
  • The Md5 checksum will be verified
  • The TGZ will be extracted in the install dir

On each step you get a description and the console output of a command. The updater aborts if one of the steps failed.