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How to Upgrade my Rocket.Chat Droplet?

Posted on November 28, 2022

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By c0a35a520ad745a68caf5e86d2a69

I noticed that on the DO Marketplace that RocketChat is at 5.07

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/rocket-chat

I installed this via teh “Create Rocket.Chat” Droplet 1 click.

Everything seemed to work well.

When I launched my RocketChat is says I’m on version 5.06 via the Admin Info page in Rocketchat.

Deployment

Version 5.0.6

Deployment ID 7nWQCAJsN7XfZagJ7

Apps Engine Version 1.33.0

Node Version v14.19.3

Database Migration 279 (November 28, 2022 11:25 AM)

MongoDB 5.0.12 / wiredTiger (oplog Enabled)

I went to the CONSOLE in DO and ran the command rocketchatctl check-updates and it said that latest version is 5.3.3

How can I update my droplet to use the latest version?

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KFSys

November 28, 2022

Accepted Answer

Hi @c0a35a520ad745a68caf5e86d2a69,

Usually you can update Rocket.Chat server pretty easily.

Stop Rocket.Chat service:

sudo systemctl stop rocketchat

Remove the installation folder, usually in /opt:

sudo rm -rf /opt/Rocket.Chat

Make sure you have the needed build packages

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential graphicsmagick

Download Rocket.Chat latest version:

curl -L https://releases.rocket.chat/latest/download -o /tmp/rocket.chat.tgz
tar -xzf /tmp/rocket.chat.tgz -C /tmp

Install it and set right permissions to Rocket.Chat folder:

cd /tmp/bundle/programs/server && npm install
sudo mv /tmp/bundle /opt/Rocket.Chat
sudo chown -R rocketchat:rocketchat /opt/Rocket.Chat

Start the service:

sudo systemctl start rocketchat

More about that here:

https://docs.rocket.chat/deploy/updating-rocket.chat

In the above you can see how to update your RocketChat using **Docker **or with SNAP.

Additionally, just to be sure create a snapshot before the Upgrade process in case something breaks.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/snapshots/

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