Hi,

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:19:06 +0200
Arnau Bria <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> some weeks ago you announced a new version of EB. At the end of the
> announcement you recommended some ways for upgrading the software:
> 
> ------------------------
>      * reinstalling EasyBuild from PyPi (don't forget --upgrade if 
> you're using easy_install),
>      * updating (the master branch of) your GitHub repository clones,
> or
>      * installing EasyBuild with EasyBuild, using the easyconfig file 
> available via [8] (this requires EasyBuild v1.8.2 or more recent)
> -----------------------
> 
> I did install EB following the bootstrapping method, may I use it
> again to overwrite my existing installation?
> 
> wget --no-check-certificate
> https://raw.github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/develop/easybuild/scripts/bootstrap_eb.py
> export EASYBUILD_PREFIX=/software/as/el6.3/EasyBuild/ python
> bootstrap_eb.py $EASYBUILD_PREFIX

I don't think it will overwrite your installation but it will install
it in /software/as/el6.3/EasyBuild/1.14.0 and you'll just load the new
module in order to use it. But this is a guess from what I see in here,
check it out first in a virtual machine!

 IƱigo

> 
> 
> TIA,
> Arnau

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