How to patch the Magento in two steps

Before patching you need create a database dump and site files dump.

Go to Magento commerce site in downloads, select Release Archive and find Magento Community Edition Patches - 1.x section where find needed patch in my case is the SUPEE-8788 and chose your version like SUPEE-8788 for CE 1.9.2.4 (0.72 MB) then click to Download log in if not and you get PATCH_SUPEE-8788_CE_1.9.2.4_v2-2016-10-14-09-42-47.sh file that is all step one ended.
Copy retrieved files to site root folder like ../public_html/ set privilegues to file chmod +x <patch-file-name>.sh or chmod 776 <patch-file-name>.sh the run this file ./<patch-file-name>.sh if all right you will see the message in console Patch was applied/reverted successfully.. If you need revert the patch run ./<patch-file-name>.sh -R\

If you have an errors check permissions on site folders must be 755 and for files into 644 for you customer and group.

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