> > Basically I am pondering why I should use a packaged version and why not.
Did you already check our documention [1]? Best, Christian [1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Startup > 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 < [email protected]> > schreef: > > > Hi Joris, > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 5:39 AM commandline-be <[email protected]> > 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:[email protected] >> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> On Wednesday, 17 March 2021 10:35, Christian Grün < >> [email protected]> 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. >> >>
