Installing and Upgrading Bold BI^® Using an RPM Package

Starting from Bold BI^® version 11.3.24, we now provide support for installing and upgrading Bold BI^® using an RPM package.

Installation Steps

• Before installing Bold BI^®, ensure that the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository is installed on your machine. If it is not installed, run the following command:

  sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

• Run the following command to configure the Bold BI^® YUM repository:

  dnf install https://rpm.boldbi.com/RPM/repo/boldbi-repo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

• Once the repository is configured, install the Bold BI^® package using the following command:

  dnf install boldbi

• After the package is installed, ensure that Nginx is enabled and started by running the following commands.

  systemctl  enable nginx
  systemctl start nginx

• Then, navigate to /opt/boldbi/boldbi-package/ and run the following command to install Bold BI^®.

  sudo bash install-boldbi.sh -i {new} -u {user} -h {host URL} -n {true or false}
  eg : sudo bash install-boldbi.sh -i new -u root -h http://linux.example.com -n true

IMPORTANT: If there are any existing applications running on the Linux machine using Nginx, set the “-n” value to false and configure Nginx manually.

Steps to Upgrade Bold BI

• Run the following command to upgrade Bold BI^® and wait until the script completes the upgrade process:

  dnf upgrade or dnf upgrade boldbi

• Once the package is successfully upgraded, a confirmation message will be displayed. After that, you can log in to the site.

• The above command checks the Bold BI^® repository and upgrades the application if an updated version is available. If no upgrade is available, it will display a message stating: Nothing to do. Complete!

Note: To clear the DNF package cache and refresh the repository metadata, run the following commands:
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf makecache —refresh