# Problem updating my installation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-updating-my-installation/281039>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [October 4, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-updating-my-installation/281039 "2023-10-04T13:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![georgersantoss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/georgersantoss/32/331107_2.png) [@georgersantoss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/georgersantoss)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-updating-my-installation/281039/1 "2023-10-04T13:44:52Z")

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Hello community.

It’s been a while since I updated my Discourse installation and today I went to do so and it’s giving me this error. I’ve never picked up something like this because I’m just an enthusiast and not a programmer.

I tried to follow the steps described in this link - [Manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manually-update-discourse-and-docker-image-to-latest/23325) and unfortunately it didn’t work.

How do I adjust this?

```plaintext
FAILED
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Pups::ExecError: cd /var/www/discourse && su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate' failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 514 exit 1>
Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cd"=>"$home", "hook"=>"db_migrate", "cmd"=>["su discourse -c 'bundle exec rake db:migrate'"]}
bootstrap failed with exit code 1
**FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.

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