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xPOS-Updater installation
🔄 xPOS-Updater installation manual
✅ Compatibility
xPOS-Updater shares the same compatibility defined for xPOS-Core on this same page, since they coexist on the same device.
🖥️ Hardware requirements
xPOS-Updater shares the same technical requirements detailed in the xPOS-Core section of this same page.
🛠️ xPOS-Updater installation
From xPOS-Core 2.4.6 onwards, xPOS-Updater is installed automatically together with xPOS-Core, from the same installer, on both Windows and Linux.
If you are installing version 2.4.6 or higher, you do not need to do anything below: once the xPOS-Core installation finishes, the updater is already operational. Continue with Onboarding, and to operate it, with the Updater dashboard.
The standalone installation procedure described below was deprecated in version 2.4.6. It is kept only as a reference for older installations that still use it.
xPOS-Updater provides a graphical interface to carry out the installation for Windows versions.
The installation must be run with Administrator permissions on the machine.
Windows
Installation via *.msi file
- Double-click xPOS-Updater X.XX.X.msi.
- Proceed by clicking the Next button.
- Read and accept the license agreement.
- Select the installation folder (default C:\Program Files (x86)\xpos-service-updater).
- Continue the installation.
- Finish the installation process by clicking Finish.
The product will be installed and the xpos-service-updater service will be active.
Uninstallation via *.msi file
- Use the same *.msi installation file.
- Proceed by clicking the Next button.
- Select the Remove option.
- Confirm the uninstallation.
- Finish the uninstallation process by clicking Finish.
The xpos-service-updater service will no longer be available in the Windows management service.
Unix
Installation
For a standard installation:
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Copy the xpos-linux-updater.zip file, ideally to the /home directory.
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Unzip or extract the .zip file into a folder named /core; for example: /home/updater/.
sudo unzip xpos-linux-updater.zip
- In the Terminal, navigate to the directory, grant execution permissions to the install-xpos.sh file and run it.
chmod +x install-xpos-service-updater.sh
./install-xpos-service-updater.sh
Once the process is finished, the xpos-service-updater service will be active on port 3400. Now, you can perform version updates of xPOS-Core.
Uninstallation
chmod +x uninstall-xpos-service-updater.sh
./uninstall-xpos-service-updater.sh
This action will perform the following steps:
- Stop the xpos-service-updater.service services.
- Remove the xpos-service-updater.service.
- Reload systemd.
- Remove the xPOS-Updater directories (database and tmp).
Service administration
These commands are used to manage, monitor and control the life cycle of the xpos-service-updater service using the systemctl utility on Linux systems:
sudo systemctl status xpos-service-updater
sudo systemctl stop xpos-service-updater
sudo systemctl start xpos-service-updater
sudo systemctl restart xpos-service-updater