Getting-Started-with-MMGen: add section "Keeping your installation up to date"

The MMGen Project 2019-06-07 09:07:04 +00:00
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* [BIP 125 replace-by-fee (RBF) transactions](#a_rbf)
* [With an online (hot) wallet](#a_rbf_onl)
* [With an offline (cold storage) wallet](#a_rbf_onf)
* [Keeping your installation up to date](#a_utd)
### <a name='a_i'>Preliminaries</a>
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$ mmgen-txsend 124FFF[0.1,150].sigtx # ...if this doesn’t confirm, then
$ mmgen-txsend 73DABB[0.1,200].sigtx
#### <a name='a_utd'>Keeping your installation up to date</a>
To make sure you have all the latest features and bugfixes, it’s a good idea to
keep your MMGen installation upgraded to the latest version. MMGen does no
checking for updates itself, so the following steps should be performed by you
on a periodic basis.
If you’ve deleted or lost your local copy of the MMGen repository, clone it
again from Github or Gitlab:
$ git clone https://github.com/mmgen/mmgen.git # Github
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/mmgen/mmgen.git # Gitlab
Enter the repository and check out the master branch. Pull the latest changes
from the remote repository:
$ cd mmgen
$ git checkout master
$ git pull
Check out the current stable version for your operating system:
$ git checkout stable_linux # for Linux-based systems
$ git checkout stable_msys2 # for Microsoft Windows / MSYS2 systems
Note that if you want to try out the latest “bleeding edge” (and possibly
unstable) features, you can just remain on the master branch and omit the
preceding step. Information on recently added features can be found by typing
`git log` or visiting the commits page on [Github][hc] or [Gitlab][lc].
Check the latest release notes in `doc/release-notes` and make note of any new
features or requirements. Now perform the install:
$ sudo ./setup.py install # Linux
$ ./setup.py install # Windows / MSYS2
[01]: Tracking-and-spending-ordinary-Bitcoin-addresses
[02]: https://tpfaucet.appspot.com
[03]: Recovering-Your-Keys-Without-the-MMGen-Software
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[05]: Key-address-files
[06]: Subwallets
[07]: autosign-[MMGen-command-help]
[hc]: https://github.com/mmgen/mmgen/commits/master
[lc]: https://gitlab.com/mmgen/mmgen/commits/master