How to upgrade minikube? - macos

Question

I had installed minikube a few months ago and wanted to upgrade as newer versions are available.
I am unable to find out how to upgrade minikube. I see a feature request for an upgrade command here - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1171
I tried to then uninstall minikube and hit another brickwall again. I don't see a command to uninstall minikube. The information that came closest to this was not very helpful - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1043
I guess we need ways to upgrade these (at least once every 6 months or so).

Answer 1

Before reinstall minikube (OS X), check the following:
Make sure that you have brew updated:
brew update
Make sure that you already have cask installed:
brew cask install minikube --verbose
Finally, execute the following command in the same directory you've installed minikube previously (usually /usr/local/bin/):
brew cask reinstall minikube
If you see an output similar to this:
Error: It seems there is already a Binary at '/usr/local/bin/minikube'; not linking.
Remove the existing binary:
rm /usr/local/bin/minikube
Now, you should able to reinstall (upgrade) minikube. :)

Answer 2

brew upgrade minikube
Just upgrade minikube with brew

Answer 3

This should do the trick.
brew cask reinstall minikube

Answer 4

First, unlink the existing minikube from /usr/local/bin then reinstall:
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/minikube # unlink existing minikube
$ brew update # update brew itself
$ brew cask reinstall minikube # reinstall latest minikube

Answer 5

An updated way is to use this:
brew cask upgrade minikube

Answer 6

Process to update:
Minikube is an executable: Re-install minikube is an upgrade.
Optionally you can remove ~/.minikube which will make minikube completely re-initialize and also update your kubernetes version (if a new version has been made available for minikube).

Answer 7

minikube delete
sudo rm -rf ~/.minikube
re-install minikube and it should work

Answer 8

if you are using Windows machine and Chocolatey package manager -
Step 1: run PowerShell as administrator
Step 2: run following command choco upgrade minikube
More on chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/

Answer 9

As of early 2020, and based on the guidance provided by this answer, minikube is no more available as a cask. You need to run:
brew install minikube

Answer 10

Minikube is no longer available in cask and calling brew cask while performing install, upgrade, or reinstall is deprecated! Use the below syntax instead:
Make sure brew is updated:
brew update
Then, to install, use:
brew install minikube
To upgrade, use:
brew upgrade minikube
To reinstall, use:
brew reinstall minikube

Answer 11

If you're reading this in 2020+:
brew upgrade minikube

Answer 12

On linux:
curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v1.22.0/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo cp minikube /usr/local/bin/ && rm minikube
Change the version you want to download. Above script uses 1.22.0

Answer 13

Just try brew upgrade minikube

Answer 14

brew reinstall minikube --cask did the trick for me

Answer 15

In order to upgrade in Windows, type:
minikube start
The following is the output you will get (make sure you are connected to internet):
Here is a newer version of Minikube available (v0.28.0). Download it here:
https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/tag/v0.28.0
if you don't get the above message then first run
minikube config set WantUpdateNotification true
then do,
minikube start
Before that, remove all the Minikube links from the system:
Remove the previous installation path.
From this folder, remove c:\Users\<user-name>\ .kube folder.