LinkScan for Unix. Reference Manual.

Section 4

Upgrading Existing LinkScan Installations

This section describes how to upgrade an existing LinkScan installation to LinkScan Version 12.1.

• Users upgrading from LinkScan 9.x or earlier must perform a brand new installation into a clean (i.e. empty) directory.

• Users upgrading from LinkScan 10.x or 11.x for Unix should carry out the following steps:

  1. Extract linkscan.tar.gz into a temporary working directory.

  2. Copy the LinkScan programs (*.pl) to the LinkScan directory.

  3. Copy the additional new files (*.txt) to the LinkScan directory.

  4. Copy the LinkScan CGI's (*.cgi) to the LinkScan directory.

  5. Copy the SGML/ directory to the LinkScan directory.

  6. If appropriate, copy the LinkScan CGI's (*.cgi) to the cgi-bin or equivalent directory.

  7. Copy the documentation (./docs/*) to the LinkScan/docs/ directory.

  8. Initiate a fresh scan of each Project to update the LinkScan databases.

LinkScan for Unix. Reference Manual. Section 4. Upgrading Existing LinkScan Installations
LinkScan Version 12.1
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