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You have to do a little planning before undertaking the conversion.
Review the appropriate documentation (e.g. About + Data + Formats and
BitstreamFormat + Renovation)
and be able to answer the questions below.

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Download Patch to DSpace 1.5 Source\BitstreamFormat Conversion Instructions\

• Shutdown your DSpace archive, i.e. the Java Servlet container / webserver.
• Update your install directory (i.e.

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  $\{DSPACE_INSTALL\}

  to the 1.6 prototype: Apply patches to the 1.5 source and rebuild or acquire a 1.6 binary distribution.
• While in the install directory, run

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  ant update

  to install new code.
• Check that

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  $\{DSPACE_HOME\}

  has a

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  config/formats

  subdirectory; if not, copy it over from the distribution hierarchy. You'll probably need to do that.
  e.g.

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  cp -rp config/formats $\{DSPACE_HOME\}/config

• Edit the DSpace Configuration as outlined below:

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