[Girder-users] Upgrading Girder and Girder Version

[Zach Mullen]

Hi Brian,

1. The version will show up in the web UI on the front page, near the
bottom of the text. For a programmatic way to query it, you can send a GET
request to /api/v1/system/version, which contains the API version as well
as the git sha1 hash.

2. The upgrade process, as of right now, is very simple. It sounds like
you're using pip, so you can simply run `pip install -U girder` and then
run `girder-install web` afterward; that should rebuild everything. The web
install step requires a somewhat new version of nodejs, so you might have
to update that as well if yours is too old. The log files and
girder.local.cfg file will be stored within the docker container, all other
system metadata lives in the mongo database. If you are using a filesystem
assetstore, the files in those assetstores will also be stored locally
within the container filesystem.

3. The container hasn't been tested with all the plugins; installing PIL
with all the required system libraries is not done in that image. Prior to
running `pip install Pillow`, you should install the following:

    apt-get install libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev libpng-dev


HTH,



Zach Mullen
Kitware, Inc.
919-869-8858

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Brian E Chapman <Brian.Chapman at utah.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I’ve got a version of Girder running in a Docker container that I built
> several months ago using girder:latest. MongoDB is running in a separate
> linked Docker container. Three questions:
>
>
>    1. I cannot see what version of Girder I’m running, either through the
>    web interface or within the container (using pip freeze or importing girder
>    and looking for the _version__ attribute. How do I determine the
>    version of girder I’m running.
>    2. What is the appropriate way to upgrade girder? I don’t see anything
>    on the admin page that indicates how to upgrade (e.g. Like in Midas). I’m
>    tempted to create a new docker container. What data are actually stored in
>    the docker container vs MongoDB? Just the log files?
>    3. I turned on the thumbnail generation plugin (version 0.1.0). When I
>    went to generate a thumbnail, I get a PIL not installed message. When I
>    connect to the container and try to install PIL I get a "jpeg is required
>    unless explicitly disabled…” Has the container been tested with all the
>    PlugIns? Curious of how much back tracking I need to do with the
>    installation.
>
> Brian
>
>
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