Upgrade Mahout. On the Mahout client host machine, execute the following command:
For RHEL/CentOS:
yum upgrade mahout*
For SLES:
zypper remove mahout zypper install mahout
![[Important]](../common/images/admon/important.png)
Important When removing and installing packages, rename those files the
/confdirectory that have.rpmsaveextension to original to retain the customized configs. Alternatively, you can also use the configuration files (under the/confdirectory) you backed up before upgrading.

