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How to upgrade Splunk on another directory?

chengyu
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Hi, my splunk install on /home/splunk, i have try rpm -i -Uvh --prefix=/home splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm, but show "package splunk-6.5.3-36937ad027d4.x86_64 is already installed". i need remove splunk than re-install? thanks.

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chengyu
Path Finder

Hi, i find the answer, command:

rpm -Uvh splunk-6.5.3.xxx.rpm --relocate /opt=/home

/opt director is default install path, /home is you change path

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chengyu
Path Finder

Hi, i find the answer, command:

rpm -Uvh splunk-6.5.3.xxx.rpm --relocate /opt=/home

/opt director is default install path, /home is you change path

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chengyu
Path Finder

rpm -Uvh --force splunk-6.5.3.xxx.rpm --relocate /opt=/home

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asimagu
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To upgrade Splunk, you never need to uninstall it and reinstall it again. That's why it´s called an upgrade 😉

First, I would check the list of installed packages.

If you're running Ubuntu 14:
apt list --installed

For older versions:
dpkg --get-selections | grep

If you are running other systems, just try to locate the right commands.

I would also try to make sure that you don´t have any other splunk instances in that machine.

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