Upgrading your installation for Microsoft Windows

You can install a newer version of IBM® Cognos® Analytics for Jupyter Notebook Server without manually uninstalling your current version.

Note: This task involves specifying a different location as your installation directory.

About this task

For a demonstration of how to upgrade your Jupyter Server installation, watch this video:

A demonstration of how to upgrade your Jupyter Server installation

Procedure

  1. Follow steps 1 to 4 in Installing Jupyter Notebook server on Microsoft Windows 10, specifying a different installation location when prompted.
  2. If you are upgrading from Cognos Analytics version 11.1.6 or later, copy the files additional_pip_packages.txt and additional_conda_packages.txt from current_jupyter_installation_location/dist/scripts/ and paste them into the corresponding folder in your new location: new_jupyter_installation_location/dist/scripts/.
  3. If you are upgrading from Cognos Analytics version 11.1.5 or earlier, copy the contents of the file additional_packages.txt from current_jupyter_installation_location/dist/scripts/ and paste it into one or both of the following files, as required:
    • new_jupyter_installation_location/dist/scripts/additional_pip_packages.txt
    • new_jupyter_installation_location/dist/scripts/additional_conda_packages.txt
  4. Copy the file current_jupyter_installation_location/dist/scripts/windows/config.conf and paste it into the corresponding folder in your new location: new_jupyter_installation_location/dist/scripts/windows/.
  5. Open a command prompt window with administrator privileges.
  6. Navigate to the new_jupyter_installation_locationdist/scripts/windows directory.
  7. Type ./install.bat

Results

Your current installation is uninstalled. Then all of the Jupyter Server Docker images are loaded from the new_jupyter_installation_location/dist/images directory and the Docker containers are started.