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HUE upgrade

prakashpunj — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:53:33 GMT

I am running HUE 2.6 on HDP 2.3. Need to upgrade HUE to 3.8. Where can I find the instructions. How to perform in-place upgrade.

Re: HUE upgrade

dgoodhand — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:12:54 GMT

Hi Prakash,

Hue 3.8 is not supported on HDP platforms but you can install it. To upgrade you should just follow the normal upgrade instructions (Hortonworks do not have these as I said earlier - this is not supported) however please ensure you backup the Hue database first.

Thanks

Dave

Re: HUE upgrade

prakashpunj — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:06:39 GMT

@dgoodhand

How to backup HUE database. I want to have 3.8 on HDP but not able to find some good instructions..

Re: HUE upgrade

chri — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:52:21 GMT

Backup Hue

/etc/init.d/hue stop
su - hue
mkdir ~/hue_backup
cd /var/lib/hue
sqlite3 desktop.db .dump > ~/hue_backup/desktop.bak

Backup the Hue Configuration

cp -RL /etc/hue/conf ~/hue_backup