How I’ve updated my self-hosted (Debian-Based OS) Pleroma installation

Hello beautiful peoples!

I have used this documentation to self-host Pleroma instance on one of my “Oracle Always Free” Ubuntu (thanks BlueB) machines:

https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/debian_based_en/

Works great, I rarely used it but never noticed any issues. Except for one thing. I had no idea how to update I found the official update guide (for from source installations (using git)) lacking.

https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/administration/updating/

sudo -Hu pleroma git checkout v2.6.0
error: pathspec ‘v2.6.0’ did not match any file(s) known to git

Here is how I did it.

sudo systemctl stop pleroma

cd /opt/pleroma/

sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod git pull

sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod git show-ref

Chose the latest version from the list and use it in the next command.

sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod git checkout v2.6.x

sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod mix deps.get

sudo -Hu pleroma MIX_ENV=prod mix ecto.migrate

sudo systemctl start pleroma

And… Voila.

I hope this helps!

Catch you on the flip side,

AndrzejL