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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.

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Contributor

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

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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

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@dgoodhand

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

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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