Upgrading joomla on linux

If you have followed my previous post regarding joomla installation you are ready with joomla v.1.5.10 & to upgare it you need to download a patch according to your existing version.

We are upgarding from 1.5.10 to 1.5.18

Taking backup of joomla's content and it's database for safety purpose.
In my case joomla's web directory is /var/www/html/joomla & mysql database name is joomla
#tar zcvf joomla-1.5.10.tar.gz /var/www/html/joomla/
#mysqldump -u username -p database_name > /root/joomla.sql

Download joomla 1.5.18 patch
#cd /root
#wget http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/12351/51116/Joomla_1.5.10_to_1.5.18-Stable-Patch_Package.tar.gz
#mkdir joomla1.5.18
#cd joomla1.5.18
#tar zxvf ../Joomla_1.5.10_to_1.5.18-Stable-Patch_Package.tar.gz
#unalias cp
#cp -rf * /var/www/html/joomla/
#alias cp='cp -i'

Now log in to your admin panel and check the version
http://your_server_ip/joomla/administrator

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