---
title: "Updating/installing Dendrite"
date: 2023-08-24T16:41:53+02:00
+summary: How to update/install Dendrite when you don't have a recent enough Golang on your server.
---
I decided to share the method I just devised for updating (and perhaps
installing) Dendrite on my VPS.
-# Motivation
+## Motivation
I discovered that yesterday (as of writing), Dendrite was updated to
[0.13.2](https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/releases/tag/v0.13.2), and I was
running 0.13.1. Because old thing bad and new thing good, I decided to update
of luck. It seemed that the 2 options were either install Go from source or just
stick with Dendrite 0.13.1, but in the end I decided on a 3rd solution:
-# Compiling it locally
+## Compiling it locally
My personal machine runs Artix, so there should be no problem with outdated Go
(or anything really) whatsoever. I figured that I could compile Dendrite on my
personal machine and then `rsync` the binaries onto my VPS, just like I did with