Although my public blogs are hosted with an ISP, I also have Wordpress installed on my home machine for the sake of hacking and development. I have a full setup on my home machine with Apache web server, PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress. (I also have PostgreSQL and J2EE tools, but that’s another story.)
I had installed all of these smoothly using APT, but I had grown a bit frustrated that the Ubuntu repositories still only had version 2.2 of Wordpress while I was using 2.5 on my public site. Thanks to a tip on the Ubuntu Tutorials blog and info on the WordPress.org site, I decided to switch to using Subversion to manage upgrades rather than waiting for new versions to show up in the Ubuntu repositories.
These are the steps I took:
- I saved a copy of my
wp-config.phpfile for safe-keeping. - I uninstalled Wordpress using the Synaptic Package Manager.
- I recreated the directory it had been installed in using
mkdir, and executed: sudo svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5/ .(note the trailing period to install in the current directory).- I edited the
wp-config.phpfile to put the settings from the saved one back in. - I opened
http://localhost/<blog-path>/wp-admin/upgrade.phpin my browser.
That was it! Worked smoothly. Now I can just use subversion to manage upgrades without waiting for them to show up in the Ubuntu repositories.
