How to best update sdm?

[rvaneerd]

Hi, I noticed some updates to the git repository have been applied. That makes me wonder how to best update the existing sdm installation as there seems to be only a way of installing (and removing).

When I do run that installer again, I get this: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. I may have re-installed several times before I started this new issue causing the "9 not upgraded" because they might have been upgraded during the earlier attempts.

I did find the documentation https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/Docs/Installing-or-Removing-sdm.md

I could remove SDM and re-install it but is running the installer again the way to update it?

Regards, Rob.

[gitbls]

Indeed, the supported way to update sdm is to run the installer again. At the moment EZsdmInstaller is a self-contained script, so the list of files that it downloads are contained within, necessitating the re-download. So, an upgrade is simply:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gitbls/sdm/master/EZsdmInstaller | bash

EZsdmInstaller will also try to install the sdm-required system packages via sdm, but it will quickly find that they're already installed, which you are seeing with the '0 upgraded, 0 newly installed'.

The 9 not upgradedmeans that if you do

sudo apt list --upgradable

you'll see the list of 9 packages that can be updated with sudo apt upgrade. These packages have nothing to do with sdm, but are reported by the apt command.

[rvaneerd]

Hi @gitbls, As mentioned in #251 I can continue. How to access /etc/sdm/apt.log is now clear to me.

Because of that this issue can be closed.

Regards and thanks for the support, Rob

[gitbls]

Hi @gitbls, As mentioned in #251 I can continue. How to access /etc/sdm/apt.log is now clear to me.

Because of that this issue can be closed.

Regards and thanks for the support, Rob

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