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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"Failed to initialize PAL." while upgrading an LSI 9211-8i to IT?
When attempting to flash my LSI SAS 9211-8i card on my ASUS H87I-PLUS LGA 1150 Intel H87 Mini ITX Motherboard, I was able to get through all of the instructions until I was finally ready to flash, using SAS2FLSH.exe. The error reported was:
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Debian unattended-upgrades does not upgrade all packages
I have installed the Debian unattended-upgrades package. It upgrades most, but not all packages. If I execute apt-get upgrade after it has run, a few more packages will be installed.
Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb…
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How to Configure A Software Update Baseline in SCCM 2012
I have a remote site that has about 70 systems that have not been patched for the last 4 months due to the WSUS server going down and I am now just getting around to deploying SCCM 2012 there.
Can one of you SCCM gurus, MCCs, MVPs, someone tell me…
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Declining superseded updates in WSUS
When you click on an update that has been superseded in WSUS, you get a warning that says you should verify the update is no longer needed before declining it. According to Microsoft, you're supposed to approve the superseding updates first, wait…
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Squid to cache youtube and windows update content
I Have a squid server (transparent) and I want to cahce youtube videos and windows updates. I know that someone has posted a similar question and I have looked at this post but I am configuring this with webmin and would like to know how to set it…
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How to automatically update non-Microsoft software on a number of windows machines?
We have a Windows Server 2003 machine. We also have 30 machines running Vista Home Basic with a bouquet of free software: Firefox, Gimp, Inkscape, etc.
Is there a way to automatically update that software? I'm looking for Aptitude (apt) analogue…
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How do I remove Windows Update uninstall files on Windows Server 2008?
I'm running Windows Server 2008 Standard running in VMware. It has 2 disks:
system disk: 16 GB
data disk: 500 MB
I installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 + MSDN and some small tools and libraries that don't take much space. Over time the system disk's…
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setting up centos to apply updates automatically
How do I set up my centos instances to automatically apply security updates?
Is it as simple as setting up a cron job that does yum -y update at 1:00am ?
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Most wanted feature for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 4.0
Some blogs rumor that the next Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) would allow to host user-defined and even non-Microsoft packages.
What is your wish list for WSUS 4.0?
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How to handle Lync 2010 Clients updates
We have in a quite large Organization Lync 2010 deployed. Also we use for software and updates distribution System Center Configuration Manager.
Our problem we face is that, if we distribute the Lync 2010 client updates through SCCM’s update…
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RHN/Yum update from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 to 5.1
I need to update a server from RHEL 5.0 to 5.1
When I use RHN/Yum and do a yum update the 5.0 server gets updated to 5.6
Is there a way to configure RHN/yum to update the server only to RHEL 5.1 ?
In RHN I only see a general "Red Hat Enterprise…
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How automatically download current versions of popular software? (like Acrobat, Firefox, Opera)
I'd like to provide LAN users access to set of useful and popular applications (like Acrobat, Firefox, Foobar, putty) but there is one problem - such software is released every few weeks or even often. What is best method of automatically…
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How to configure non-admin accounts to install updates of non-microsoft applications using Active Directory?
How to configure non-admin users to allow them to install updates for Java and Adobe Acrobat Reader (or any other application which may need such privileges) without needing for administrator password on Windows 7. Updates for Microsoft products…
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Stopping Java from showing Update notice to all terminalserver users
on our terminal server all users have minimal (i.e. default) permissions. None are local administrators on that machine.
Still Java Runtime displays message to every user that an update is available. Clicking on the update asks for…
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How to upgrade to MySQL 8.0?
I have a Drupal site 8.6.10 on an Ubuntu server 18.04 with MySQL 5.7.25
I want to update MySQL to version 8.0
Here are the steps I followed :
1) I backed up my database.
2) I uninstalled MySQL from my server with the commands :
$ sudo systemctl stop…
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