Installing and Upgrading Bold Reports^® Using an RPM Package

Starting from Bold Reports^® version 7.1, we now provide support for installing and upgrading Bold Reports^® using an RPM package.

Installation Steps

• Before installing Bold Reports^®, ensure that the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository is installed on your machine. If it is not installed, run the following command:

  sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

• Run the following command to configure the Bold Reports^® YUM repository:

  dnf install https://rpm.boldreports.com/RPM/repo/boldreports-repo-1.1-1.noarch.rpm

• Once the repository is configured, install the Bold Reports^® package using the following command:

  dnf install boldreports

• After the package is installed, ensure that Nginx is enabled and started by running the following commands.

  systemctl  enable nginx
  systemctl start nginx

• Then, navigate to /opt/boldreports/boldreports-package/ and run the following command to install Bold Reports^®.

  sudo bash install-boldreports.sh -i {new} -u {user} -h {host URL} -n {true or false}
  eg : sudo bash install-boldreports.sh -i new -u root -h http://linux.example.com -n true

• Please refer to the documentation below to configure Nginx for SSL.

  Configure Nginx for SSL

Steps to Upgrade Bold Reports^®

• Run the following command to upgrade Bold Reports^® and wait until the script completes the upgrade process:

  dnf upgrade or dnf upgrade boldreports

• Once the package is upgraded, you will see the following message. You can then access the application and verify the version.

• The above command checks the Bold Reports^® repository and upgrades the application if an updated version is available. If no upgrade is available, it will display the following message.

Note: To clear the DNF package cache and refresh the repository metadata, run the following commands:
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf makecache —refresh