Blog How to upgrade your urbit binary for linux (not using Port)

New way of upgrading

As of the urbit binary version 1.9 and later, there is a new way to upgrade your binary which is much easier. Replace *pier* with the location of your pier (It's the directory with the name of your planet or star).

Ctrl-d (to shut down your urbit)

Do the upgrade (if you get an error, see troubleshooting here and here)

*pier*/.run next

And restart. (Insert whatever port you want)

*pier*/.run -p 13494

Old way of upgrading (still works)

Small note, when restarting urbit you can use the -p flag to specify a port (./urbit -p 32123 *yourshipname*). I recommend doing that so you can make sure your firewall keeps that port open.

Ctrl-d (to shut down your urbit)

rm linux64.tgz (if present)

rm urbit-worker (if present)

rm urbit-king (if present)

rm urbit (ONLY THE EXECUTABLE, DO NOT MISTAKENLY DELETE YOUR WHOLE URBIT FOLDER)

wget --content-disposition https://urbit.org/install/linux64/latest 
tar zxvf ./linux64.tgz --strip=1

Start urbit the old way, or move the executable into the pier and start it the new way.

Old way:

./urbit -p 32123 *yourshipname*

New way:

./urbit dock *yourshipname*
rm urbit (ONLY THE EXECUTABLE, DO NOT MISTAKENLY DELETE YOUR WHOLE URBIT FOLDER)
*pier*/.run -p 13494