Set up the updater
The Magento 2 Updater enables you to use the Web Setup Wizard to manage the Magento system components.
The updater uses the cron jobs update/cron.php
and bin/magento setup:cron:run
.
Learn more about the cron setup in Configure the Magento application.
Clone the updater
Clone the Magento 2 updater to <magento_root>/update
.
Example:
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cd ~/magento2
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git clone git@github.com:magento/magento2-updater.git update
Install the updater
The Magento 2 updater contains the composer.json
with dependencies that it requires to process.
Install the dependencies using Composer:
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cd update
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composer install