It is compatible with the prior version so you don't remove except running the latest. You can also download binaries.
Thanks for the prompt reply. I just want to make sure I understand completey.
When I initally compiled v1.4.5.2, I used
git clone https://github.com/magi-project/magi/ to obtain the files. Now, I know that if I try and do that now, the process will stop/fail since the 'magi' folder already exists.
So, I have made a new folder 'magi-1453' and used git clone to get the new files into there. Are you saying that I just need to copy and replace the files from 'magi-1453' into 'magi' and I should be good to go? I don't need to reconfigure as a service or anything?
What about the files in ./magi which were created when the magid daemon was first run? Can these all remain the same?
You can go to old folder and do git pull. .magi is just fine, not necessary touch any thing.
So this didn't work. Using the GUI (like you would in Windows, as I couldn't find a command line I was comfortable with), I moved all the files, sub-directories, etc. from the freshly downloaded
magi-1453 folder into the original
Magi folder.
I then tried to start the service but it wouldn't work. I renamed the existing
.Magi folder - the one that contains the block chain, wallet.dat etc. and ran the service again - a new
.Magi folder was created!
However it was unable to come online as there was no user information. So I made a new magi.conf file and restated the service and it seems to be active. HOWEVER, each time I do a 'magid getinfo' I get a reply that it's unable to connect to the server. I'll give it a little while to catchup with the block chain from yesterday, however I'm worried there's still more to do.
odroid@odroid:~$ magid getinfo
error: couldn't connect to server