Freeside:4:Documentation:Upgrading

Notes

Start of 3.x to 4.x upgrade instructions.

Note that unlike most major version upgrades, a minimum version of 3.3 is needed before upgrading to 4.x. If running an earlier version, upgrade to 3.3 or later before upgrading to 4.x.

Upgrade instructions

Preqrequisites

Debian

aptitude update; aptitude install libhtml-formattext-withlinks-perl libemail-address-list-perl libsymbol-global-name-perl libdate-extract-perl libcgi-emulate-psgi-perl libplack-perl librole-basic-perl libhtml-formattext-withlinks-andtables-perl libcrypt-x509-perl libdata-guid-perl libencode-perl

Other distributions

Install the appropriate Perl modules as indicated above.

Initial cleanup

• rm -r /opt/rt3/lib #is this necessary? i think it was RT 3.8->4.0-only (freeside 2.3->3.0), because of how it moved its libs around

Freeside installation

• cd freeside-4.0

• make clean; make configure-rt; make install-perl-modules install-docs

RT

• make install-rt
• cd freeside-4.0/rt
• As the freeside UNIX user, run /opt/rt3/sbin/rt-setup-database --dba freeside --prompt-for-dba-password --action upgrade
  • You will be prompted for the RT version to upgrade from. Enter 4.0.22.

Freeside upgrade

• As the freeside UNIX user, run freeside-upgrade username, passing the username of an internal Freeside user.
• If freeside-upgrade hangs, try stopping Apache, all Freeside processes, and anything else connected to your database, especially on older PostgreSQL versions.
• make install-docs

Post-upgrade configuration

Doing real-time electronic check transactions? After the upgrade, double check your billing events to make sure the upgrade didn't add a duplicate "Run card or check with a Business::OnlinePayment realtime gateway"