New Domino Container update options
Daniel Nashed – 7 December 2025 15:27:57
The Domino Container script is already a quite convenient way to install Domino and to maintain it.
In combination with the start script projects, software can be downloaded from MHS automatically and dominoctl helps to download web-kits.
The container project can be also used to install Domino natively -- with the same build script which is used to build the container image.
The build script is basically "just" executed on the Linux machine instead of in a build container.
There is also a convenience script to install Domino natively with one command.
But that command did not clone the GitHub repositories and just extracted them after download.
Nothing is every perfect. The container project and the start script projects are constantly improving.
Here are two new changes currently under test in the develop branch:
1. Enhanced Domino On Touch Installer to work for updates and clone GitHub repositories
The Domino on Linux installation script -> https://nashcom.github.io/domino-startscript/install_domino/ now clones the GitHub repositories and can be used also to update Domino servers after installation with the convenience install script.
2. Introduced a new update helper script and "update" commands
- Updates GitHub repositories locally by pulling updated
- Checks if any of the installed scripts need an update (dominoctl, domino start script, domdownload).
The script is linked to the main scripts: build.sh, dominoctl, domino start script. with the "-update" option to update the repositories and installs script updates.
A new "update" command ("updatescript for dominoctl") only updates and exits.
This new option makes it easier to update and not need to remember to pull repositories and update scripts manually.
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