ownCloud Administrators Manual

Updating ownCloud

Note

If you have installed ownCloud from a repository, your package management should take care of it. Probably you will need to look for compatible third party applications yourself. Always do backups anyway.

Update

Updating means updating ownCloud to the latest point release, e.g. ownCloud 6.0.0a → 6.0.2. This procedure uses the ownCloud updater plugin called “Updater”: it’s an internal application already present in your ownCloud installation.

To update ownCloud, follow those steps:

  1. Make a backup of the ownCloud folder and the database.
  2. Make sure that updater plugin is enabled.
  3. Navigate to the ‘Admin’ page.
  4. Click ‘Update’.
  5. Refresh the page with Ctrl+F5.

If this procedure doesn’t work (for example, ownCloud 5.0.10 doesn’t show new any new version) you could try to perform a full upgrade to update to the latest point release (see below).

Upgrade

Upgrade is to bring an ownCloud instance to a new major release, e.g. ownCloud 5.0.14a → 6.0.2. Always do backups anyway.

To upgrade ownCloud, follow those steps:

  1. Make sure that you ran the latest point release of the major ownCloud version, e.g. 5.0.14a in the 5.0 series. If not, update to that version first (see above).

  2. Make a backup of the ownCloud folder and the database.

  3. Download the latest version to the working directory:

    wget http://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2

  4. Deactivate all third party applications.

  5. Delete everything from your ownCloud installation directory, except data and config.

  6. Unpack the release tarball in the ownCloud directory (or copy the files thereto). Assuming that your installation directory is called ‘owncloud’ and that it’s inside your working directory, you could execute this command:

    tar xfj owncloud-latest.tar.bz2

  7. Set the permissions properly

  8. With the next page request the update procedures will run.

  9. If you had 3rd party applications, check if they provide versions compatible with the new release. If so, install and enable them, update procedures will run if needed.