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