Upgrade zend daemon using apt
NOTICE: Support for Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 8 and 9 have been deprecated with ZEND 4.1.0. These distributions will no longer be able to upgrade using apt. You can still build ZEND from source for these distributions.
Use this page for common commands used to upgrade the various software running on Secure, or Super Nodes
- Upgrading the zend daemon
| Description | Command | |
|---|---|---|
| Upgrading the zend daemon | ||
| 1 | Update the zen.list to point to the new HorizenOffical git repo and update the apt cache and Install zen, this will upgrade the zend daemon if a new version is available | Update zen.list file to use the horizenofficial git repo sudo sed -i 's/[zZ][eE][nN][cC][aA][sS][hH][oO][fF][fF][iI][cC][iI][aA][lL]/HorizenOfficial/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zen.list Update the apt cache and confirm the repo update following the steps bellow (if prompted) sudo apt-get update When running Example : Repository 'https://HorizenOfficial.github.io/repo/ $distro Release' changed its 'Origin' value from 'ZencashOfficial' to 'HorizenOfficial' To fix this please accept the change in origin by pressing Example Do you want to accept these changes and continue updating from this repository? [y/N] Update the apt cache and Install zen, this will upgrade the zend daemon if a new version is available sudo rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/* && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install zen -y |
| 2 | Download the required parameters for zend NOTE: This will only download parameters that are missing | zen-fetch-params |
| 3 | Stop zend after the upgrade has completed | For installations using systemd (assumes the unit file is named 'zend.service') sudo systemctl stop zend For installations using monit sudo monit stop zend For installations manually running zend zen-cli stop && sleep 5 |
| 4 | Check zend's version ***CHECK FOR "Zen Daemon version v4.1.0"*** | zend --version Desired Output zenops@node01:~$ zend --version Zen Daemon version v4.1.0 Copyright (C) 2009-2023 The Bitcoin Core Developers This is experimental software. Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the |
| 5 | Start zend monitoring services after the upgrade has been completed | For installations using systemd (assumes the unit file is named 'zend.service') sudo systemctl start zend For installations using monit sudo monit start zend For installations manually running zend zend |
| Restarting zentracker | ||
| 6 | Restart zentracker after zend has restarted | For installations using systemd sudo systemctl restart zentracker For installations using pm2 (assumes the tracker is running as the only or first process, numbered 0) pm2 restart 0 |
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