akkoma/docs/docs/installation/migrating_to_akkoma.md

Migrating to Akkoma

Akkoma does not currently have a stable release, until 3.0, all builds should be considered "develop"

Why should you migrate?

aside from actually responsive maintainer(s)? let's lookie here, we've got:

• custom emoji reactions
• misskey markdown (MFM) rendering and posting support
• elasticsearch support (because pleroma search is GARBAGE)
• latest develop pleroma-fe additions
• local-only posting
• probably more, this is like 3.5 years of IHBA additions finally compiled

Actually migrating

Let's say you're very cool and have decided to move to the cooler fork of Akkoma - luckily this isn't very hard.

You'll need to update the backend, then possibly the frontend, depending on your setup.

From Source

If you're running the source Akkoma install, you'll need to set the upstream git URL then just rebuild - that'll be:

git remote set-url origin https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma.git/
git fetch origin
git pull -r
# or, if you're on an instance-specific branch, you may want
# to run "git merge stable" instead (or develop if you want)

Then compile, migrate and restart as usual.

From OTP

This will just be setting the update URL - find your flavour from the mapping on the install guide first.

export FLAVOUR=[the flavour you found above]

./bin/pleroma_ctl update --zip-url https://akkoma-updates.s3-website.fr-par.scw.cloud/develop/akkoma-$FLAVOUR.zip
./bin/pleroma_ctl migrate

Then restart. When updating in the future, you canjust use

./bin/pleroma_ctl update --branch develop

Frontend changes

Akkoma comes with a few frontend changes as well as backend ones, your upgrade path here depends on your setup

I just run with the built-in frontend

You'll need to run a couple of commands,

# From source
mix pleroma.frontend install pleroma-fe
# you'll probably want this too
mix pleroma.frontend install admin-fe

# OTP
./bin/pleroma_ctl frontend install pleroma-fe
# you'll probably want this too
./bin/pleroma_ctl frontend install admin-fe

I've run the mix task to install a frontend

Hooray, just run it again to update the frontend to the latest build. See above for that command.

I compile the JS from source

Your situation will likely be unique - you'll need the changes in the forked pleroma-fe repository, and either merge or cherry-pick from there depending on how you've got things.