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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 can I find the original un-changed configuration file to compare with the *.rpmnew file?

While upgrading from CentOS 5.7 to 5.8 I've received the following warnings: warning: /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config created as /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config.rpmnew warning: /etc/ssh/sshd_config created as /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew warning:…
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Why won't Ubuntu Server 9.04 won't upgrade to 9.10?

I have a server running 9.04 and I'd like to upgrade it to 9.10 (on the way to getting to the latest version). However, despite following the nice documentation, I am unable to. Specifically, sudo do-release-upgrade fails: Checking for a new ubuntu…
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Reasons Why In Place Upgrades Are Bad

I am working on compiling a list of reasons why in place upgrades of software and operating systems are a bad idea. There are many people that I work with that think that it is easier and better to just install the new version of a piece of…
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In-place upgrade Server 2012 R2 to Server 2019 promised, but not available?

Bought licenses for Windows server 2019 because Microsoft documentation claims you can upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 directly in-place. Please note, this IS what we need to do so discussions about "best practices" and VMs and migrations are…
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How can I upgrade my Slicehost VPS Ubuntu 7.10 slice to 8.10?

I have an Ubuntu 7.10 slice on Slicehost running my main web server. I want to update to Ubuntu 8.10 because the repositories are gone for 7.10 and I want the latest security and application upgrades. Slicehost does not seem to let me dist-upgrade…
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How to upgrade a package in Debian 8?

I'm using a docker image that comes with Debian 8 (jessie). I'm trying to upgrade curl package to the latest (7.58) from 7.38. Running apt-cache showpkg curl shows that 7.38 is the latest version, but curl is at 7.58…
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Upgrading Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise (32bit)

We have a couple of vm servers still running Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise 32bit. There are many vulnerabilities and some of the ways of fixing the problem will be upgrading to a higher version of Windows Server and IIS. (Plus Microsoft stopped…
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I have an Ubuntu Gutsy installation running on a server, how can I upgrade it to Karmic?

How can I upgrade a really old Gutsy server to Karmic from the command line?
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Upgrading from Windows Server 2012R2 to Windows Server 2016 RTM Issue

I've tried twice to upgrade my machine from 2012R2 to 2016 RTM. Both times it failed with message 0x800F0830 - 0x20003 Windows Server 2016 the installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during INSTALL_UPDATES operation I've already…
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How to upgrade multiple virtual machine operating system in VMware vSphere in a data center?

In our data center we have 4 physical server having ESXi 5.5 installed on them. On each physical server there are multiple virtual machines running on them and all of these virtual machines are managed by VMware vSphere. All of these virtual…
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apt update blocked by cyclical dependices

I have Debian running on a VPS instance that is kept alive for a little site/project that is used by a small user base on an irregular basis. The server is largely left alone but I try to login every now and then to keep packages up to date. Today…
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Upgrade Php 5.4 to 5.6? Upgrade debian 7 to 8?

My Operating System is Debian 7.9. My dedicated server hosts only a website in PHP (5.4 apparently), and some databases (MySQL). There are also programs like iptables, fail2ban, etc. set up. I made an update recently and saw a warning about PHP 5.4…
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CentOS 7.1 - Reverting to Old Functionality of top and service

I recently installed a fresh CentOS 7.1 server. I'm noticing a few differences from CentOS 6.7, and I'm hoping there is a way to revert to an old view of certain things. For example: Question 1: top The Top command displays data differently. For…
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Automatically build kernel modules after unattended upgrades in ubuntu

For automatic upgrades I has installed unattended-upgrades package and configured it. After each unattend kernel upgrade I must run following commands to recompile iscsi kernel modules: apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` apt-get install…
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Automatically download, but do not install, upgrades

Running debian stable, I know I can use unattended-upgrades to automatically download and install upgrades. However, running debian unstable, I would be extremely reluctant to automatically install upgrades due to the nature of the distribution…
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