Hi how do we update the node web ui as i can only find the update script for the python based one
Or is it done the same way?
regards
Scalda
Because of the dependency on npm for node modules, updating is done with a few extra steps than required by the Python webui. As root:
cd /usr/games/minecraft
git fetch
git pull
npm install
Right now, this works relatively smoothly, because the npm dependencies donāt change much, but they can, and someday might change a lot. What this means is that in the future it might be necessary to manually restart the webui process after all this. And the problem there is that depending on your chosen installation platform, this could mean restarting it with supervisorctl, service or systemctl, etc. Not that that is a hard thing to do, but it is simply not the same for all users in all cases.
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from my reading through docs I donāt think the āāallā flag does anything. I think it assumes all unless you specify a package.
also thereās ānpm updateā which forces updates when new versions of dependencies come out, but I think ānpm installā works just as well.
Iām not even sure where I got the --all from. Maybe it was valid when I was working on v.6, or maybe I just picked up garbage from wherever. I agree it doesnāt seem so useful to keep around now.
npm update I think does something elseāI think it will update package.json, according to the semantic versioning. Iām not sure I have my versioning in package.json perfect enough to try that one out yet.
EDIT: the --all was to download the dev modules in addition to the normal modules. This is unnecessary for pretty much everybody except myself.
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I am running Ubuntu 14.04, and had installed the python web ui originally. I reversed the steps to uninstall it and then installed the node web ui as I had recently discovered it was available. However I did not change my update script which was:
cd /usr/games/minecraft
git fetch
git merge origin/master
Everything claimed it was updating. When I came across these postings, I naturally realized I needed to update my script to what you have above. Now when I run the script I get the following:
$ sudo scripts/updateMineOSWebUI.sh
Already up-to-date.
npm WARN package.json daemonize2@0.4.2 No repository field.
For the python based web ui, you had a script to reset the scripts in case of error, do I need something similar in this instance?
Also, would it be possible to have the current version and maybe even the repository version showing so we can visually see our version and update status? I love the interface and maybe some more info to clutter it up a bit more would be fun!
Thanks!
Merge takes the most current updates to the script and applies it atop your existing scripts.
git reset --hard origin/master
Reset does exactly what it did even for the old webui, which is discards anything in your git repo that isnāt part of the official upstream repo (e.g., user changes, accidental or deliberate).
And regarding the current version:
Excellent, thanks hexparrot! I will try the reset and see if that fixes the error. As for 'git commit , I am ashamed that I did not look more closelyā¦
I have checked the āgit commitā line after the vm rebooted, and it was not showing the version, that is why I did not see it. I stopped the vm, and went through the reset procedure to get ānpm installā to work and still no joy:
# npm install
npm WARN package.json daemonize2@0.4.2 No repository field.
# npm --version
1.3.10
So I did a complete reinstall of the web ui - deleted:
/usr/games/minecraft
/usr/local/bin/mineos
/etc/minos.conf
/etc/init/mineos.conf
and then reinstalled. Everything seemed to go smoothly except start and stop would not find mineos, so I rebooted. Everything came back up normally and start and stop both work. However, I sitill donāt have a version number showing:
That is all I have ever seen since I upgraded to the node web ui. Any thoughts?
EDIT: set preformatted code to code selection.