ZVM-UPGRADE(1)

💅 ok so this is zvm-upgrade(1) — like, the ZVM-UPGRADE manual page, bestie

It lives under User Commands in the manual, and honestly? It's a little one-pager but it slaps. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let me tell you about the one command that keeps your ZVM all shiny and new.

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✨ NAME ✨

zvm-upgrade — the glow-up button for ZVM. It upgrades ZVM to the latest release. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

zvm upgrade

That's literally the whole thing. One command. No flags, no drama, no "wait which arg was it" energy. Just type it and let her cook. 🔥

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's what happens when you run it — the whole backstage tour, no gatekeeping:

• It checks for the latest ZVM release. Like, goes and looks. Very demure, very mindful. 💖
• Then it downloads the release archive for the current platform — so, the one you're on, not some random other OS. She knows where she is. iykyk.
• Then it replaces the installed ZVM executable. Boom. New ZVM, same you. Periodt.

⚠️ okay important caveat, don't skip this one: package-manager builds may compile out self-upgrade support. Like, the feature can literally be not there depending on how your ZVM was built. Fr fr.

And if you're on one of those builds? No crash, no tantrum — such builds print a distributor-provided update instruction instead. So your package manager's people left you a little note. Cute of them. 🎀

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• ZVM_INSTALL — this is the override, bestie. It lets you point at a different directory containing the executable to replace, instead of letting ZVM figure it out itself. When it's unset, ZVM does the detective work and attempts to resolve the path of the running executable. Main character energy: it finds itself. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• zvm(1) — the big one, the mothership, go read it 💜

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k byeeee 🎀✨

This page is from ZVM v0.9.4, dated August 2026, and yes it's the ZVM-UPGRADE(1) page — thanks for staying till the end of the group chat, love u 💖