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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Consequences of upgrading libc6 on oneiric
I have a server running Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10, which I cannot upgrade.
I've followed instructions given here
https://serverfault.com/a/631664/246071
to upgrade bash. However, I noticed that these commands also upgrade libc6 among with other…

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Installing OS-programs in linux
A previous user asked a question on where to install applications, and the answer spells out how the directories are used, however, as the answer says, when you use make install for a system daemon like sshd or ntpd it typically puts the results in…

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Automatic updates for NAT instances and SSH connections in a AWS VPC with private subnets
My current website architecture has two Ubuntu servers with public IPs in Rackspace Cloud. One of them is web and mysql server. The other one is for time-consuming calculations only. Both of them have Iptables which allow all outbound traffic and…

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Upgrading PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3 on EC2
I am a HUGE novice with this, and I have spend a whole day and a night trying to fix this. I know this has been asked before, but I have tried everything in those answers as well as from all over the Internet, nothing works :-(
So I thought I will…

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Transition Advice
My organization (about 3-5 regular users and 10-15 rare-seldom other users) is looking at making a few transitions. We are retiring our internally developed data system hosted on a leased web server, and replacing it with a thrid-party web-hosted…

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do-release-upgrade skipped a version - how to specify a release?
I have a experienced a slightly odd behaviuour in the Ubuntu upgrade utility and am lefting wanting to know. Also I am trying to replicate an environment as closely as possible, and upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 may be relevant.
I downloaded 12.10.4…

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openssl upgrade from 0.9.8w to 0.9.8y
I am trying to upgrade the openssl version from 0.9.8w to 0.9.8 y to address the following security vulnerabilities CVE-2012-2333, CVE-2013-0166 , CVE-2013-0169.
While trying to upgrade I am facing following dependanices and any insight to this will…
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Are running JVMs affected by JRE upgrade
The title pretty much says it all:
I would like to perform an apt-get upgrade on my server to get the latest JRE (among other packages), but there are a couple of JVMs running which should not be stopped. Is it safe to do the upgrade?
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Upgrade Lighttpd 1.4.28 to 1.4.35 on Ubuntu 12.04
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and installed Lighttpd using:
sudo apt-get install lighttpd
this installed version 1.4.28.
I downloaded the source files for 1.4.35 (latest) from the Lighttpd site and installed using:
cd /lighttpd-1.4.35/
./configure…

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MariaDB 5.5 and Ubuntu 13.10 -> 14.04 upgrade
I have installed MariaDB (5.5.37+maria-1~saucy) on Ubuntu Server 13.10. Then I have upgraded Ubuntu to 14.04 LTS. Upgrade process has disabled repository for MariaDB 5.5. Current part of sources.list after dist-upgrade.
# deb…

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Upgrade to 3x Samsung SSD EVO in RAID-0 -- what type of RAID controller to search for?
My current configuration is a RAID-0 with three conventional 2TB hard drives. I want to upgrade to three 1TB SSD EVO disks, also in a RAID-0 configuration.
Using SiSoftware Sandra, I found out that my T7500 Dell Precision uses SATA II (3Gb/s) in its…

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SQL Server 2008: Host name did not change
I have a SQL Server 2008 installation and I want to upgrade it to R2. During the upgrade process, in the Reporting Services Authentication window, the host name that appeared for the instance name is the previous name of my computer.
There error…

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phpMyAdmin 404 error after upgrade to PHP 5.5
Ubuntu 12.04, just upgraded from PHP 5.3 to 5.5.9
Before I could access phpmyadmin from any of the servers by just adding "/phpmyadmin" after the ip address. Websites are working.
Eg.
64.236.99.123/phpmyadmin
64.236.99.124/phpmyadmin
Now I'm…

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Upgrading your cloud application when running it on a live cluster?
I am working on a cloud based application which installed under Ubuntu as you would otherwise expected. For example, the server is installed as follow:
apt-get install snapserver
We have nearly 20 packages as part of the project now.
We do not yet…

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Upgrade TFS 2012 Express to TFS 2013 Express
What I would like to do is upgrade our TFS 2012 express to the TFS 2013 express.
There are many guides telling how to upgrade from express to something else (from free to non free) but I can't seem to find how to upgrade from express to express.
I…

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