Update/install latest RoundCube via cPanel or manually

First you will have to uninstall/remove exiting RoundCube files/folder/database on your server,

Uninstall/remove exiting RoundCube

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cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
rm -rf roundcube*
mysql -e ‘drop database roundcube’;
/scripts/upcp
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Now use this following steps to  update/install latest roundcube version.

We need to get Roundcube before we can use it. The easiest way to get it is to visit http://www.roundcube.net and click on “Downloads” or just go to http://roundcube.net/downloads. Wait for it to download and then unzip (using WinZip or ZipGenius or tar -xzf roundcubemail-0.1.tar.gz) in the current directory.

Update/install latest roundcube

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cd /usr/local/cpanel/base
wget -O roundcube.tar.gz http://superb-sea2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/roundcubemail/roundcubemail/0.7.1/roundcubemail-0.7.1.tar.gz
rm -rf roundcube.tar.gz
mv -f roundcubemail-0.2.1/ roundcube
cd roundcube
chmod -R 777 temp
chmod -R 777 logs
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Configure roundcube Database

Create the database, database user and install the intial sql file. You can use following commands.

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mysql -e “CREATE DATABASE roundcube;”
mysql -e “GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcube.* TO roundcube@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘DATABASEPASSWORD’;”
mysql -e “FLUSH PRIVILEGES;”
mysql -e “use roundcube; source SQL/mysql.initial.sql;”
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RoundCube Configuration

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cd config
mv db.inc.php.dist db.inc.php
mv main.inc.php.dist main.inc.php
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then open database configruation file  db.inc.php in your favroite editor like vi or pico or nano

vi db.inc.php

Find following line

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$rcmail_config[‘db_dsnw’] = ‘mysql://roundcube:pass@localhost/roundcubemail’;
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Replace it with

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$rcmail_config[‘db_dsnw’] = ‘mysql://roundcube:DATABASEPASSWORD@localhost/roundcube’;
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Now Open main.inc.php

vi main.inc.php

Find

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$rcmail_config[‘default_host’] = ”;
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Replace with

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$rcmail_config[‘default_host’] = ‘localhost’;
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Now your roundcube is updated.