The process of applying, or files used to apply, improvements to a system or program. An update is typically encompasses minor changes and improvements, relative to an upgrade.
Questions tagged [update]
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chaining ssh update commands in a script fails
I want to run a single script locally that invokes a 'sudo ./up' on several remote hosts via ssh.
Where ./up is simply:
---- /home/user/up ----
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
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The username on all hosts is…

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Ansible PHP Update with zypper (with vendor change)
I would like to automate PHP Updates for my Linux Servers with Ansible. Those are SLES so i'm using zypper module for Ansible. The problem is because of a vendor changes in involved zypper is asking me to confirm Solution 1 which is to also…

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How to run updates on Ubuntu command line without upgrading PHP
I run an Ubuntu server on 16.04 using LAMP stack. I ran into an issue last week when updating using:
sudo apt update
Basically PHP was automatically upgraded from 7.4 to 8.0 during the upgrade & this broke some functionality on my websites. Is…

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Pip packages updated log
A few days ago I updated all pip packages on Ubuntu 20.04 with this command:
pip list --outdated --format=freeze | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs -n1 pip install -U
Does exists any way to see previous and present versions of any of them?…

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Keep LibreOffice up-to-date
we have a terminalserver where we want to work with LibreOffice. The problem is that I don't exactly know how I can keep it automatically up-to-date. Is there like an update.exe I could run on server startup? I know there is a (still buggy?)…

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Two php-fpm processes running after trying to update php version. Wordpress using the wrong one
I am currently running a Debian server on Google Cloud Compute.
Linux host1.example.com 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I installed PHP 7.3, however in WordPress it still says that I am using version 7.0.…

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Updating Open VPN on a Centos 7 server: is there a risk of messing things up?
I use Open VPN on a Centos 7 server and the open-vpn package needs to be updated after a little over a year since its install.
The update can be done fairly easily (using yum) but I'm worried this might mess things up (in my server-side VPN…

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How to deploy to the user device and to a device connected to the first one but not to internet
We are shipping a robot and hybrid laptop to a client, which will use it on its site. The laptop serves as a remote for the robot, or multiple robot. We want to be able to deploy software and system updates to the laptop and the robot. Both are…

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How to list packages needing update in format for `yum update-to`
How can I get a space-separated list of the packages with pending updates on CentOS7 in the format that is required for passing as an argument to the yum update-to command?
I want to update all the packages on my production server running CentOS7.…

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How to update yum repositories to fetch newer versions of nodejs and related ones in CentOS 7?
I'd like to update certain packages.
The latest versions are not presented.
$ sudo yum list nodejs
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: centos1.hti.pl
* epel: ftp.uni-kl.de
* extras:…

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Office 365 (2016) Updates Randomly Across the Company
We have installed Office 2016 using our Office 365 subscription throughout the company. All installations are set to the Semi-Annual update channel. We are finding that computers across the network will update seemingly randomly (over a month or…

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YUM attempt to install instead of update MySQL packages
I have a doubt about the difference between install and Upgrade message with YUM Update.
I have 2 servers with MySQL 5.6.25 installed on then "Server A" and "Server B".
When I run the command:
YUM update
I get in server A the install packages…

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Windows Update KB3023266 repeated installation
Windows Update KB3023266 is installed on every shutdown of the computer. On next start, the update log shows an additional entry like this:
Name: Vulnerability in Windows Application Compatibility cache could allow elevation of privilege: January…

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Upgrading Ubuntu Server to a recent version would update PHP too? This result in any problems?
I use Ubuntu Server 10.04 and PHP 5.3.2, if I upgrade the server to a more recent version, the PHP would update too? Would this process result in some problem in the settings of PHP, like previously installed extensions?
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How to manually remove php from init
I tried to remove php5-fpm from init (aka upstart) on my Lubuntu OS with the command:
sudo update-rc.d -f php5-fpm remove
but the symlink is still in /etc/init.d/; indeed php is started at boot.
What could have caused this issue, and how can I…

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