I am strongly suggest to you to not updating that way. Or if you do so, backup your web2py folder before.
What I usually do: download latest source from download page backup my "staging"/"prod" web2py installation remove the old installation : cd /home/www-data/ && rm -Rf web2py/ Uncompress the new web2py zip in the folder /home/www-data/ Set permission : sudo chown -R www-data.www-data web2py/ Copy my app in : web2py/applications/my app Also set permission is required here. If you are only talking about the dev environnement, I just let the old web2py in a folder named with the version and add an other folder with the new version beside and unpack web2py new version there and bring my app in the new installation. You don't have to bother with permission since you are only use it for developpement. Richard On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, horridohobbyist <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com > wrote: > I'm currently running Version 1.99.2 on my Ubuntu Linux server. Is there > an easy way to upgrade to the latest version (1.99.7)? > > My web2py installation says "Checking for upgrades...", but it never > finishes checking! I presume that if it were to finish checking, there > would be a way to upgrade automatically? > > Thanks. >