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Upgrading is the process of changing a system to a different, higher/newer version. It is similar to patching or updating (and for some software, may even be as simple as applying patches or updates, but is generally more involved and more comprehensive than the process for installing patches or updates.

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How do I reattach to Ubuntu Server's 'do-release-upgrade' process?

I accidentally pressed Ctrl+C during Ubuntu Server's do-release-upgrade process. I'd dropped to a shell to compare a .conf file in /etc/. When I pressed Ctrl-C, it asked whether I wanted to try to reattach to the upgrade process, but it failed to do…
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Can someone clarify Ubuntu (Debian) dist-upgrade for me?

I've got an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server. There are several packages which are "kept back" ("the following updates have been kept back") when I do an apt-get upgrade. It's my understanding that I can do an apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade these packages,…
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"A new version of /boot/grub/menu.lst is available" when upgrading Ubuntu on an AWS server

I just tried to do a sudo do_release_upgrade on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu 13.10 server to upgrade to 14.04. All was going well until I got the following message: A new version of /boot/grub/menu.lst is available, but the version installed currently has…
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Recover from shutdown during Ubuntu distribution upgrade

I have a computer which was unexpectedly shut down during a distribution upgrade (Ubuntu 8.10 -> 9.04). It now won't finish booting - various X errors, then it goes to the login screen but won't allow logins. I have a backup of it and the /home…
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How to back up a running Linode server?

We want to take a backup of everything on our Debian server, which is running remotely on the other side of the world (hosted by Linode), without shutting it down. This system is running shell, email, XMPP/prosody and web, with a couple of simple…
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How do I upgrade an end-of-life Ubuntu distribution?

My do-release-upgrade fails. I get the following error message: Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife Err Upgrade tool…
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What's the difference between apt-get dist-upgrade and do-release-upgrade?

Will apt-get dist-upgrade do the exact same thing as running do-release-upgrade? I'm currently running Ubuntu Server 11.04.
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Bypass Paypal Upgrade

PayPal is making upgrades to the SSL certificates on all web and API endpoints. Due to security concerns over advances in computing power, the industry is phasing out 1024-bit SSL certificates (G2) in favor of 2048-bit certificates (G5), and is…
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safely upgrade glibc on CentOS 7

I've tried a python application on my CentOS machine and it gives me the following error: ImportError: /usr/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by /tmp/_MEI2BYIr4/libstdc++.so.6) I've been tempted to upgrade GLIBC, but after…
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After upgrade from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye security updates 404 not found

Doing recommended upgrade path, TL;DR: Backup data, then apt update apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade reboot Also disable all non main stream packages if any. Then preparing APT for new distribution: sudo sed -i 's/buster/bullseye/g'…
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How to avoid downtime with linux?

Frequently software updates to Ubuntu require reboots (which can have side effects such as downtime). I see Ubuntu has https://www.ubuntu.com/livepatch which allows for kernel updates without reboots, however, this is a paid service. There is also…
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Bare metal or virtualize?

I am looking to upgrade servers and am trying to figure out a good plan. We currently have 4 servers: OpenBSD firewall/VPN server FreeNAS backup servers (local) that receives ZFS snapshots FreeNAS backup servers (remote) that receives ZFS…
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How to document a strategy for upgrading commercial software?

We haven't upgraded our RDBMS or server OS for nearly a decade. Another mission-critical software package is nearing two decades old and has been unsupported by its vendor for much of that time. Some among our management seem to think that this is a…
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Remove reboot request for DISM

I want to automate the upgrade of my 2012 R2 servers from standard to datacenter. However, there is a prompt at the end of the upgrade waiting for a user response. I have thousands of servers to do and cannot press "Y" at the end of it... any ideas…
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dist-upgrade fails on libc6 because "kernel too old"

I have tried for the past few hours to upgrade ubuntu server 14.04 to 16.04 over SSH. The Server is hosted and I have no physical access to it. It goes well until it updates libc6 and pops up curl with an error and a single OK button, message:…
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