topic Re: Upgrade Splunk using RPM in Installation

Upgrade Splunk using RPM

csoh — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:57:21 GMT

Hi,

If Splunk is installed at /Splunk/splunk location, which option should I use to upgrade Splunk using RPM?
Is it rpm -U --prefix /Splunk or rpm -U --prefix /Splunk/splunk?

Thanks

Re: Upgrade Splunk using RPM

treinke — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:07:46 GMT

I typically download the rpm and then iussue:

rpm -Uvh splunk-X.X.X-XXXXXX-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm

Re: Upgrade Splunk using RPM

DavidHourani — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:54:08 GMT

Hello,

I don't know if you got your answer or not. But by default splunk is installed into /opt so if you installed in lets say /mnt/XX and you wish to update it, simply issue the following command:

rpm -Uvh splunk-6.0.2-196940-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm --relocate /opt=/mnt/XX/

(The relocate part tells splunk to apply the update to /mnt/XX/ instead of /opt)

You can alose use the relocate part of the command to change the default install directory.

Best regards,
David