Update the EPM-L client on your client host system

Update the EPM-L client on an RPM-based system

1. Ensure you've downloaded a rebuilt package and it is available on your client host system.
2. On the client host, open a terminal as root and navigate to the location of the rebuilt client RPM file:

Run rpm -U ./<epml_package_file>

Update the EPM-L on a Debian or Ubuntu-based system

1. Ensure you've downloaded a rebuilt package and it is available on your client host system.

2. On the client host, open a terminal as root and navigate to the location of the rebuilt client DEB file:

   apt-get install ./<epml_package>.deb
   

   or

   dpkg -i ./<epml_package>.deb
   

3. If prompted, choose to install the package maintainer's version of the configuration files.

4. Activate the installation:

   1. Retrieve the token from EPM-L's Linux Deployment Packages page.

   2. Navigate to the terminal connected to the EPM-L client as root.

   3. Run pbactivate with the -t option to specify the copied token string as its command-line parameter:

      [root@client~] /usr/sbin/pbactivate -t eyJhbGciOiJNEQIgEk...vM5o1qbhoJfsI7beI7w
      About to contact epm.beyondtrust.io
      Received request results. Verifying...
      Verified data integrity.
      Stored client authentication data.
      

   • If pbactivate runs with an incorrect token string, it reports “Malformed activation token”.
   • If pbactivate runs with a token that has expired, it reports “Activation token expired”.

5. Provide the token string to pbactivate.

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   Note

   Provide the token string in one of the following ways (listed in order of preference):

   command-line parameter

   The command-line parameter is when -t is used (recommended).
   /usr/sbin/pbactivate -t

   stdin via a file redirect

   A file redirect might be:

   /usr/sbin/pbactivate < token.txt

   stdin via a pipe

   A pipe might be:

   echo "eyJhbGciOiJS...kBfE_W3i4g" | /usr/sbin/pbactivate

   or

   echo ${TOKEN} | /usr/sbin/pbactivate

   environment variable

   The environment variable to use is `PBATOKEN`.

   export PBATOKEN=eyJhbGciOiJS...kBfE_W3i4g ... /usr/sbin/pbactivate

   stdin via TTY if in foreground

   If the program is being invoked from a foreground terminal session, pbactivate will prompt the user to enter the token (this is where you paste the token in):
   /usr/sbin/pbactivate Enter token:

The EPM-L client updates.