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I recently had to fix Magento after a hung update happened. After looking around online I found that Magento can be update directly from the command line. This is a guide for doing so.

• Make sure sudo is installed:
  

  pkg install sudo
  

• Make the mage script executable:
  

  chmod u+x /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/mage
  

• Change into the magento install directory:
  

  cd /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com
  

• Set the maintenance.flag file:
  

  touch /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/maintenance.flag
  

• Show the list of installed Magento packages:
  

  sudo -u www sh /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/mage list-installed
  

• Upgrade any other packages:
  

  sudo -u www sh /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/mage upgrade-all --force
  

• Force the reinstallation of the Mage_All_Latest package:
  

  sudo -u www sh /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/mage install http://connect20.magentocommerce.com/community Mage_All_Latest --force
  

• Reindex everything:
  

  php shell/indexer.php reindexall
  

• Set the correct permissions:
  

  chmod -R 644 /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/*
  find /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
  chmod 550 /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/mage
  

• Flush all cache and sessions:
  

  rm -rf /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/var/{cache,session}/*
  

  • NOTE: For some reason I also needed to remove the old pkginfo/Mage_All_Latest.txt directory:
    

    rm -rf /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/pkginfo/Mage_All_Latest.txt
    

• Remove the maintenance.flag file:
  

  rm /usr/local/www/sites/magento.example.com/maintenance.flag
  

Resources¶

• https://community.magento.com/t5/Version-Upgrades/CE-1-9-2-update-via-SSH/td-p/10562
• https://firebearstudio.com/blog/upgrade-to-magento-community-1-9-by-ssh.html