Upgrade from 5.1.4 to 10.0.1

I’d like to move a running 5.1.4 install to a new machine. Rsynced everything over and untarred the new version 10. Now wanting to run the upgrade scripts: upgrade_5.1_6.0.sh, upgrade_6.0_6.1.sh, … in order.

Problem, the new system has no python2. Can I just replace the PYTHON in the upgrade script? After all, the module it calls is python3 already? What about the seafile-server-latest link, where should it point at?

Looking forward to learn how to proceed!

Adding path to the python executable to the environment did the trick:

PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 ./upgrade_5.1_6.0.sh

All upgrade scripts ran without errors. Now on to the details.

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Further steps, using the sqlite database, not using memcached, on this debian 12 system, two packages satisfy all that seafile requires to operate (properly, from first looks):

apt-get install python3-django python3-django-captcha

As seafile runs as normal user, but download/install/preparations done as root:

chown seafile:seafile /opt/seafile
chown seafile:seafile /opt/seafile/seafile-server-latest/runtime

Important to chown /opt/seafile to prevent this error when managing seahub.db: django.db.utils.OperationalError: attempt to write a readonly database

The database to change base_filecomment for sqlite3 is seahub.db.

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