Installation and Operations Guide > Installing on UNIX and LINUX > 3.4 Upgrading an Existing Installation
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3.4 Upgrading an Existing Installation
Upgrading an existing Patran installation is a manual operation and requires the following steps:
1. Follow the steps in Creating a New Installation, 28. This will create a parallel Patran directory.
For example,
/msc/patran/20xx
/msc/patran/20yy
If you do not have enough disk space for parallel directories, uninstall the existing installation. But first make sure to copy the customization files listed below, however.
2. Copy the following customization files from the old installation directory to new installation:
• p3_printers.def
• site_setup
• p3epilog.pcl
• p3toolbar.def
• p3quickpick.def
• settings.pcl
• p3manger_files/*.cfg
• p3manger_files/*/*.cfg
• app-defaults/*
3. Copy any customized template databases from the old installation to a staging area and open each one by running Patran from the new installation. The databases will be converted to the new database schema. Once this is complete, you can copy them to the new installation area.
4. Once the new version is successfully installed, check the files copied in the previous steps for paths that will not be correct in the new version. Generally, Patran configuration files will not contain explicit paths to other Patran directory. Site specific customizations, however, may have used explicit paths which need to be edited.