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

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

1. Double-click xPOS-Updater X.XX.X.msi.
2. Proceed by clicking the Next button.
3. Read and accept the license agreement.
4. Select the installation folder (default C:\Program Files (x86)\xpos-service-updater).
5. Continue the installation.
6. 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

1. Use the same *.msi installation file.
2. Proceed by clicking the Next button.
3. Select the Remove option.
4. Confirm the uninstallation.
5. 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:

1. Copy the xpos-linux-updater.zip file, ideally to the /home directory.

2. Unzip or extract the .zip file into a folder named /core; for example: /home/updater/.

Linux / macOS

sudo unzip xpos-linux-updater.zip

3. In the Terminal, navigate to the directory, grant execution permissions to the install-xpos.sh file and run it.

Linux / macOS

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

Linux / macOS

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:

Linux / macOS

sudo systemctl status xpos-service-updater
sudo systemctl stop xpos-service-updater
sudo systemctl start xpos-service-updater
sudo systemctl restart xpos-service-updater