Title: alternative 3.8 install
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# alternative 3.8 install

 *  [bbear14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbear14/)
 * (@bbear14)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-38-install/)
 * Can anyone suggest a way to get the 3.8 update installed?
    I have tried the auto-
   update and it doesn’t work for me. Never runs, just leaves temp files on the 
   server. It’s 6.1 mb right, how long could it take? Plugins de-activated, or not.
   I followed the manual install instructions to the letter with plugins off and
   still have files that exist to be over written even though the wp-includes and
   wp-admin directories have been removed. That choice I wasn’t ready for. There
   is no nag/.maintenance file to be found to remove and start over after, thankfully
   I had copies of the directories removed to replace and piece back the install/
   3.7.1 version of my site. Looking for ideas to get the update done. Anybody think
   of anything. One thing I questioned, does it make a difference where I do this?
   On my host server there is a mysite domain.com folder/directory associated with
   the admin – all the files, and another duplicate of the same under public_html
   associated with “root”. Will anything be different in either directory install.
   my site/blog url is [http://electronicsmain.com](http://electronicsmain.com),
   that info is always requested but I don’t know how it might help. Would appreciate
   any creative ideas, Thanks

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 *  [Keith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithdriscoll/)
 * (@keithdriscoll)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-38-install/#post-4413558)
 * I would suggest you do a manual update 🙂
    Be sure to review [http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress)
   and [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)

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