Taking clues from 2.3.9 release notes and 2.3.8 deployment upgrade
following 3.0 docs
Run these commands from the '/usr/local/share' directory
- shut down the database
sudo /usr/local/share/neo4j/bin/neo4j stoporneop wget dist.neo4j.org/neo4j-community-2.3.9-unix.tar.gztar -xzf neo4j-community-2.3.9-unix.tar.gzmv neo4j-community-2.3.9 neo4j