How to Upgrade Nextcloud from 24.0.12 to 25.0.6 Using the Command Line¶

Create a backup of your Nextcloud data.

cp -r /var/www/html/nextcloud /var/backups/nextcloud-backup-24.0.12

Put Nextcloud into maintenance mode.

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --on

Download the Nextcloud 25.0.6 tarball.

wget https://download.nextcloud.com/server/releases/nextcloud-25.0.6.tar.bz2

Extract the tarball.

tar -xjf nextcloud-25.0.6.tar.bz2

Copy the extracted Nextcloud files to the `/var/www/html/nextcloud` directory.

sudo cp -r nextcloud/* /var/www/html/nextcloud/

Change the ownership of the `/var/www/html/nextcloud` directory to the `www-data` user group.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/nextcloud/

Change the permissions of the `/var/www/html/nextcloud` directory to 755.

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/nextcloud/

Upgrade Nextcloud.

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ upgrade

Take Nextcloud out of maintenance mode.

sudo -u www-data php /var/www/html/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --off