This UPGRADE.txt file is a command-line syntax reminder for experienced PmWiki administrators. For full documentation on upgrading Pmwiki, see the bundled PmWiki.Upgrades page or visit http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Upgrades See also these related pages: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BackupAndRestore http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Subversion The examples assume your PmWiki site is in a ./pmwiki/ directory (a directory named "pmwiki" immediately below the working directory). Backing up (always a good idea!): tar -zcvf ~/pmwiki-backup.tar.gz pmwiki zip -9r ~/pmwiki-backup.zip pmwiki Or, to keep backups organized by date: tar -zcvf ~/pmwiki-site-`date +%Y%m%d%M`.tar.gz pmwiki zip -9r ~/pmwiki-site-`date +%Y%m%d%M`.zip pmwiki The latest release is available here: http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.tgz http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.zip Example download commands: wget http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.tgz lftpget http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.tgz links http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.tgz lynx http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.tgz Expanding the archive: tar -zxvf pmwiki-latest.tgz # for the gzipped tarball unzip pmwiki-latest.zip # for the .zip archive Copying the files (two ways to do it): cp -av pmwiki-2.1.x/. pmwiki cp -Rpv pmwiki-2.1.x/. pmwiki Subversion upgrade: svn export svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest pmwiki --force