# Update Not Completing

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-not-completing/359020
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 26, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-not-completing/359020 "2025-03-26T20:44:47Z")
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### Author: ![Ed\_S](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ed_s/32/134015_2.png) [@Ed\_S](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ed_S)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-not-completing/359020/2 "2025-03-27T17:41:50Z")

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You will need to perform a command line rebuild. See

> [@Manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manually-update-discourse-and-docker-image-to-latest/23325):
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> bookmark This guide provides step-by-step instructions for manually updating Discourse, the Docker container, and the Ubuntu operating system on a self-hosted setup. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Administrator warning SSH access to the server. If you self-host Discourse, you occasionally need to run a manual update via the command line to get the latest security releases and newest libraries. These updates are not picked up in admin/upgrade, which is why you’ll occa…

It’s always possible that an in-browser update will unexpectedly fail, so you should always choose a time when you can suffer the downtime you might need, and you can then fall back to a command line rebuild. (And you should take a backup and download it before you do anything.)

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