# Updating Ionic app

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380>\
**Category:** uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 26, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380 "2014-07-26T14:01:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![raymondcamden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/raymondcamden/32/64502_2.png) [@raymondcamden](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/raymondcamden)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/1 "2014-07-26T14:01:22Z")

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I’ve got an Ionic app I started early last week and would like to apply the latest update to it. I downloaded the zip. Do I just need to copy css, fonts, and js to projectroot/www/lib/ionic?

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/2 "2014-07-26T14:10:09Z")

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Hey @raymondcamden, yes that would be a way to update ionic.

Another way you could do it is with the CLI. If you project was created by our CLI and has bower, you can run `ionic lib update` to get the latest version of ionic.

Note that this requires you have the latest CLI version, 1.1.5

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**Author:** ![raymondcamden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/raymondcamden/32/64502_2.png) [@raymondcamden](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/raymondcamden)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/3 "2014-07-26T14:15:00Z")

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Slick - nice to know.

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/4 "2014-07-26T14:16:21Z")

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Yeah its a new feature, we’re also working on a packaging system so we can do our own build. You should help test it out 😉

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**Author:** ![raymondcamden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/raymondcamden/32/64502_2.png) [@raymondcamden](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/raymondcamden)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/5 "2014-07-26T14:17:02Z")

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Heh, still learning. In fact - see my next post I’ll be writing in about 2 seconds. 😉

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**Author:** ![darrenahunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@darrenahunter](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/darrenahunter)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/6 "2014-08-24T03:28:01Z")

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Hi Mike

How to you update via ionic cli to a particular version or to the latest nightly also.

I understand it is ionic lib update -v xxxxxx - but trying to figure out what is expected as version (also what to put for latest nightly). It loks for zip files in github/driftyco/ionic-bower/archive but I can’t list what is in that dir.

Thanks  
Darren

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/7 "2014-08-24T23:25:44Z")

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@darrenahunter you can edit your bower file to use what ever version of ionic you wish.

> **[ionic-team/ionic-cli](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli)**
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> ionic-cli - The Ionic Command Line Utility

```javascript
{
  "name": "lists",
  "private": "true",
  "devDependencies": {
    "ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#1.0.0-beta.7"
  }
} 

```

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**Author:** ![nonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9a28c/32.png) [@nonsense](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nonsense)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-app/7380/8 "2015-05-06T11:05:21Z")

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Its still failed because after changed like above still same update to ionic-bower#1.0.0-rc.4 not to ionic-bower#1.0.0-rc.5

Please fix it with soon