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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Inventorying Emailing Software
My company has recently decided to update our mail server and I've been tasked with inventorying all of our applications that use the existing server to send email so that we know which systems we need to test for the changeover. The company has…

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Problem when upgrading Debian from stable (lenny) to testing (squeeze)
I just got a VPS for private use, and wanted to upgrade it to Debian testing (squeeze) in order to have newer packages. The actual version was Debian stable (lenny).
What I did is simply :
edit /etc/apt/sources.list and replace lenny with…

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unattended-upgrades doesn't find any upgrade despite correct Allowed Origins
I'm running a server under Ubuntu 16.04 and am trying to find a way to manually launch all the available security upgrades when I want to. I found numerous posts about unattended-upgrades, however it doesn't seem to give me any upgrades…

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how to add every package to Package-Blacklist of Unattended-Upgrade?
I'm trying to figure out how to add every my installed packages to Package-Blacklist of Unattended-Upgrade, Ubuntu.
I already tried *, but it doesn't work. just occurred an error.
Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
"*";
};
I just want to…

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How to solve CentOS 7 dependency problems when upgrading to PHP 7.2.3
I am trying to upgrade PHP form 5.4.16 to 7.2.3 on a CentOS 7.4 server running HTTP 2.4.6.
I get these dependency alerts on this command:
yum install php70w php70w-fpm php70w-cli php70w-common php70w-xml php70w-soap php70w-xmlrpc php70w-mbstring…

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Confused about nginx version number
I'm administrating an Ubuntu 14 server. When I type nginx -v in bash, I get nginx version: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu). According to nginx.org, the latest stable version appears to be 1.13.9, not 1.4.6. However, when I run sudo apt-get install…

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Zimbra upgrade from 8.0.6 to 8.8.6
I just inherited a old single-server Zimbra 8.0.6 installation running on 64-bit CentOS 6.5. Being both the OS and Zimbra so old, I plan to update at the next maintenance window. However I would like to first do a reality-check asking on the…

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Server RAM Ranks
I would like to equip my ProLiant DL380 Gen9 (2xE5-2680 v4) with more RAM.
My plan was to have a total of 768GB (24x32GB R4). According to HP configurator, however, the clock rate drops to 1600 mhz instead of 2400. Is that because of the R4 ranks?…

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Is it save to Upgrade a lamp-stack without losing configurations?
I am rather new to the whole Server Administration thing.
I am currently running a CentOS 7 Server with the following lamp-stack versions:
Apache(httpd) - 2.4.6 (CentOS)
php - 7.1.12 (IUS)
MariaDB - 5.5.56 (CentOS)
phpMyAdmin - 4.7.5 (Manual via…

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dpkg: error processing package libc-bin
When I run sudo apt-get upgrade, I get:
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu: Bus error (core dumped) dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 135 Errors were encountered…

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Is version 17.06.2 of docker compatible with 1.12.6?
I have an old docker release having version 1.12.6. Is it safe to upgrade it to the current version? At the moment it's 17.06.2 that can be found in docker-ce deb package. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and It's running several containers.

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After dist-upgrade form 12.04 to 14.04 imagick not loaded
After my dist-upgrade of Ubuntu Server form 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS, the module ImageMagick won't load anymore.
I get every 30 minutes an alter email with the following :
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library…

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how do I upgrade centos 6 to centos 7
How do I upgrade a CentOS6.9 virtual machine to CentOS7?
I tried doing a yum -y update but that did not do it for me.
I would appreciate if anyone could share a procedure with me.

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Cannot upgrade pyhon-html5lib
on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS when I run:
dpkg -l python-html5lib I'm receiving:
||/ Name Version Architecture …

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Upgrade domain controller from Server 2008 R2 Enterprise to Server 2016 Enterprise
Our organization (high school) is looking to upgrade our Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server virtual host, hosting a 2008 R2 domain controller VM, and a 2008 R2 print server VM, to Server 2016 Enterprise.
We are looking to do an in-place…
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