update command

[linuxline]

I was looking for the update command to update exiftool version inn the documentation and installation instructions. I could not find it. I am on linux.
thank you

[Phil Harvey]

To update, just install the new version.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

There isn't a built in update command, it has to be done manually.  Or you could script something up using cURL and 7zip.  All you need to do is extract the archive into the proper location, overwriting the previous version.

As an example, this thread has a couple Windows PowerShell scripts to download and update exiftool.  The basic idea is

• Get the current local exiftool version using exiftool -ver
• Get the newest version number from http://www.exiftool.org/ver.txt and compare
• If exiftool has been updated, download newest version with cURL.  The link to the newest version is always the same, only with an updated version number
• Extract into the correct location

[Phil Harvey]

(OK, what StarGeek said) 

[linuxline]

To update, just install the new version.

- Phil

Thank you!

[linuxline]

There isn't a built in update command, it has to be done manually.  Or you could script something up using cURL and 7zip.  All you need to do is extract the archive into the proper location, overwriting the previous version.

As an example, this thread has a couple Windows PowerShell scripts to download and update exiftool.  The basic idea is

• Get the current local exiftool version using exiftool -ver
• Get the newest version number from http://www.exiftool.org/ver.txt and compare
• If exiftool has been updated, download newest version with cURL.  The link to the newest version is always the same, only with an updated version number
• Extract into the correct location

Thank you