Upgrading LumenVox Products

LumenVox releases monthly versions of its products. When you first purchase a license for a product, you receive free upgrades for that license for one year. After that, software upgrades are covered as part of an annual maintenance contract. You may contact LumenVox Sales for more information about maintenance contracts.

You may always download the latest software that you have access to by logging into your account at http://www.lumenvox.com/customers/ and clicking "Your Software Downloads".

The exact instructions for upgrading your software depends on the operating system you are using.

Upgrading on Windows

Before upgrading to a newer version of the Speech Engine, License Server, or MRCP Server, it is a good idea to uninstall the old versions using the Windows Add/Remove Programs control panel. Uninstall the License Server (and any optional components such as the Speech Tuner or MRCP Server) and then uninstall the Engine.

Once the Engine has been uninstalled, reboot your machine and run the install for the latest version of the Engine, restart the machine, and then install the additional components (License Server, MRCP Server, etc.). You do not need to restart after installing the additional components.

Upgrading on Linux

The ideal way to upgrade the LumenVox Speech Engine, License Server, and MRCP Server on Linux is to use a tool like yum (for Red Hat, Fedora Core, and CentOS) or apt-get (Debian) to handle the upgrades for you.

Assuming you have followed our instructions for setting up yum or setting up apt-get to automatically download the latest packages from our repositories, upgrading is simple. Upgrading will install the new software without changing your configuration files.

Please note that if you are upgrading from 8.0 or older, you will need to ensure you also get the new LumenVoxClient package when you upgrade. Also please see our new Linux directory structure to see where the files will get installed.

For yum, type:

yum update packagename

The valid package names are LumenVoxCore, LumenVoxLicenseServer, LumenVoxClient, LumenVoxSRE, and LumenVoxMRCPServer.

For apt-get, type:

apt-get install packagename

Valid package names are lumenvoxcore, lumenvoxlicenseserver, lumenvoxclient, lumenvoxsre, and lumenvoxmrcpserver.

If you are using an RPM-based distribution without using yum, you may manually download the RPMs and install them using the following command:

rpm -Uvh filename

Replace filename with the name of the RPM file you wish to install.