L. Arnold's picture

The quick way for a fast build (and to remove the overhead of SVN that I describe above)

After you install theTKL Magento Appliance --  proceed in Webshell(:12320)

Go to your www folder (var/www)

then issue the 1.5.1 or 1.6.1 command below

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.5.1.0/magento-1.5.1.0....

OR

wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.6.1.0/magento-1.6.1.0....

then expand the file (do just one at a time!) so that they upgrade 1.4.2 into the correct folders.

go to

magento/var/cache   .. issue command..  rm -R *

magento/var/session.. issue command.  rm-R *

 

Then Be sure your Ownership is set up right so that Downloader (and I am sure more) will run

chown -R  www-data:wwwdata /var/www/magento

run magento-cleanup.php or something similar  (search the web for this).

Open the Magento Site.  Takes a while but should upgrade you to a Fresh Build.