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:

    sudo 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:

    sudo dnf install boldbi

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

    sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx

  • If a firewall is running on the system, allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic by running the following commands.

    sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

  • Change the SELinux mode from targeted to permissive.

    sudo setenforce 0

  • 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:

    sudo dnf upgrade or sudo 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