Update MoonBeam

This article is described on how you can update MoonBeam software

First of all, we need to stop our node, to prevent unexpected behavior:

# systemctl stop moonbeam

Then go to the environment of the ‘moonbeam’ user:

# su -s /bin/bash moonbeam

Go to the project directory:

# cd ~/moonbeam

Let’s check out the latest release:

# git checkout tags/$(git tag | tail -1)

Go to the master branch:

$ git checkout master

Download all changed files from the master:

# git pull

Rebuild binary files:

# cargo build --release

Check the current version of the “moonbeam” tool:

$ ./target/release/moonbeam --version

Make sure that you are using the latest version:

moonbeam 0.6.1–1cfd4a4-x86_64-linux-gnu

Exit from the user environment:

$ exit

Run “moonbeam” service:

# systemctl start moonbeam

Check the status of the service:

# systemctl status moonbeam

Make sure that status is active(running):

# systemctl status moonbeam
● moonbeam.service - "Moonbase Alpha systemd service"
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/moonbeam.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-02-26 14:32:06 CET; 4s ago
   Main PID: 155386 (moonbeam)
      Tasks: 55 (limit: 18720)
     Memory: 227.1M
     CGroup: /system.slice/moonbeam.service