To upgrade is to replace a piece of hardware or software with a better, and usually newer, version or component.
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How am I supposed to keep up with kernels as a developer?
I'm developing for a specific TI ARM processor with custom drivers that made it to the kernel. I'm trying to migrate from 2.6.32 to 2.6.37, but the structure changed so much I will have weeks of work ...
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The command to upgrade to a new kernel from Ubuntu repositories
In the distro I'm most familiar with -- ALTLinux, a command like apt-get install kernel-image-std-def#3.0.... would install another kernel, and update the initramfs and the bootloader config ...
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Bash port auto upgrading script in cron doesn't work properly?
I've been recently try to write a script to automate checks for new version of ports and software installed on my FreeBSD server. This script is added to root's crontab and fires daily. If I run it ...
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Best way to upgrade vim/gvim to 7.3 in Ubuntu 10.04?
I have to use Ubuntu 10.04 at work, and cant upgrade it. I'm using Vim/gVim 7.2.
I want to upgrade it to 7.3 (with Python and Ruby extension support). Which is the best way? Add an entry in ...
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Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 post-upgrade tasks
I have just successfully upgraded from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17 using the Preupgrade tool. One of the post-upgrade steps suggested here is to "remove unsupported packages".
The guide says to run ...
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How to invoke root privileges from a password prompt of “Software Update” window?
When I try to install software updates using the "Software Update" GUI, I am asked for the root password. Although, I can 'su' in a terminal, the password is not recognized as correct in the GUI ...
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Automatically build a manually installed kernel module upon installing a kernel update on Ubuntu
I am experimenting with flashcache on my Ubuntu and it looks interesting enough to do a long term test with it. I downloaded the sources, compiled them and installed the resulting kernel module. So ...
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Mint update manager not updating
After running update manager these are the error messages I get...
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList ...
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Update is telling me my package system is broken - the instruction to fix it doesn't work - what to do?
I am using Linux Mint 12 and currently have the Mate desktop running. The icon in the upper right showed their were updates. Tried to do it and it said that
The package system is broken
...
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How can I upgrade to gnome-shell 3.6 from 3.2?
I have Linux Mint 12 which has gnome-shell 3.2.2.1 but I would like to update it to 3.6.
So my question is how do I upgrade it?
And also, AltF2 doesn't doesn't do anything, how can I get that ...
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Update Sublime Text 2 in Mint 10 Linux
Sublime Text 2 won't let me use it unless I upgrade. Is there an easy way to do this? I'm new to Linux and all they have is the tar.bz2 file. But I know you can update programs with apt-get ...
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Switching from Debian 6 Squeeze stable to testing version
I had this problem and I asked some friends of mine and their advice was to upgrade from my messed-up Debian Squeeze system to the testing version. So I did it. First I changed the ...
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Upgrade java on Linux Mint 11
I'm unable to use web-based java content due to my version being out of date.
%>java -version
java version "1.6.0_24"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_24-b07)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server ...
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HTTP Downloader that supports directory index? So that I could use globbing?
Is there an http downloader that supports globbing?
i.e. I would like to fetch the latest update of a package, abc-XXX.rpm, but the XXX (version number) is unknown to me. Is it possible to do a ...
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debian apt-get dist-upgrade from squeeze to wheezy failing on vlc
I can't continue until I solve this bug, I've tried removing the dpkg so it redownloads it but it still has this error when trying to dist-upgrade, or now, apt-get -f install.
root@hayek:~# apt-get ...
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Availability of software during update?
Imaging I am running a mail server, e.g. exim4 (or a database, a syslog daemon...). Now, while updating this package I would assume the application has to be stopped or at least restarted after ...
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Is it possible to keep a FreeBSD system up to date (base system + packages) using only binaries?
I have been using Debian and NetBSD systems for a long time, and I have got used to do binaries upgrades for the base system and for packages (using pkgin with NetBSD)
Now the NetBSD kernel does not ...
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How to upgrade my linux Debian installation?
I run the following command to upgrade my system -
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade
However it gives me updates for the softwares and libraries that I have installed. This is not what I want. ...
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/boot too small to upgrade
Trying to upgrade from F15 to F17. I need to find a way to increase /boot size without destroying data. Details:
I tried upgrading using preupgrade process and via booting from Net iso on USB and ...
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disable apt-listchanges (and other interactive stuff) during upgrades (reliably)
I have to admit, I really really hate apt-listchanges. If I'm going to do a huge dist-upgrade, I want to just leave the computer there for a few hours. The asker of this serverfault question had a ...
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Why updating a running Linux system is not problematic?
It's years I use Linux systems on a daily basis, and I never had major problems by updating a system when it was running, but I still wonder why this is possibile.
Let me make an example.
Suppose a ...
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Software distribution
I have a set of servers with Red Hat on board and an internal software (it is set of many files with configs and so on) that is in permanent development.
There are several types of servers:
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Why don't you need to update drivers? (Or do you?)
In my life I've not once updated drivers on any of my Linux systems, though they have all been desktops. A friend was asking me why one does not need to update Linux drivers and I found myself unable ...
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Should I update my Fedora or not?
Here is my problem. My laptop has an NVidia Geforce 310 M graphic card. And since kernel 2.6 I had problems with the display. I had to use nomodeset option in the grub, if not my screen will be off ...
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Can't register or update Solaris 11 Express
Trying the x86 live CD, installed it on a VirtualBox virtual machine, network connectivity and guest additions are OK.
The "Register" link (which they imply is needed to get updates) gets me to an ...
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Kernel can not boot after upgrade on Fedora OS 15
I am using Fedora 15, and want to upgrade to version 16. I followed the official link Upgrading Fedora using yum - FedoraProject to upgrade my OS by the following command:
yum update kernel* ...
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Can I use `apt-get` to upgrade to the latest version of Nagios?
At the time of this writing the latest version of Nagios is 3.3.1. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and have used apt-get update; apt-get install nagios3 to end up with version 3.2.0.
I know there are a lot ...
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Will I break debian etch if I install python-support 0.7.1 to it?
I try to install s3cmd into my debian etch, but the following error message comes up:
root@NAS-01G:~/src$ sudo apt-get install s3cmd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
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How to maintain file ownership when running 'yum update'
I'm running CentOS 6.2 and installed nginx as root. After the install I changed the owner and group of the install to it's own user and group to keep thing a bit more secure.
I logged in as root and ...
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Upgrading Slackware 13.1 to Slackware-current, is it a big leap?
I have Slackware 13.1 installed on my computer, with some software that I installed via pkgtools, slackbuilds, and compiled. I want to upgrade it to Slackware-current (13.37).
Can I safely upgrade ...
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Automatically update a Debian system
I want to automatically update a Debian system (actually Debian Wheezy on Raspberry Pi, though that shouldn't make much a difference). I've already seen that there is cron-apt, probably a good choice, ...
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How does the linux update manager work?
I want to know how the update manager for linux works. For instance, how does my linux distro check to see if there are any available updates for download and which servers to download these updates? ...
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Some packages in mint not updating
I'm new to Linux Mint 12 and I can't tell for sure, but I think I'm missing some updates. When I run update manager and it's fetching the list of packages to be updated, a bunch of packages list ...
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Why do most distros (other than Debian) recommend/require a full reinstall when upgrading to a new version?
Having spent most of my Linux life using Debian, I'm been having a look at other distros and am really surprised at extent to which they don't provide a smooth upgrade between versions. Debian is ...
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What does “The following packages have been kept back” mean?
When doing an apt-get upgrade I sometimes get a message saying "The following packages have been kept back". For example:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade ...
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Keeping track of the latest releases
How do people keep a track of the latest softwares being released? Let me say a distro group like slackware. A distro has ~25K+ packages and about a score of people involved. I hardly think these ...
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Invoking cp from within BASH and using the -u option
Is there a way to have cp's --update option print files that did not copy because the source directory contained a newer version of the file?
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Using the apt package manager refuse an update for a specific package
I am attempting to upgrade a few packages using the apt package manager. However there is a specific package in the list that I don't want to upgrade. In fact I don't want anyone to ever upgrade it. ...
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Pacman Full system upgrade failure
I'm trying to do a full system upgrade using pacman on ArchLinux. I have kernel 3.2.
When typing sudo pacman -Syu
I got the following errors
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
...
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What is an effective method for installing up-to-date software on an out-dated production machine?
Apologies if this has been asked already, but I'm such a beginner, I'm not even able phrase a search query for this.
Background
My company uses a small out-dated cluster (CentOS 5.4) to do number ...
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dag.repo overwritten
I accidentally overwrote dag.repo by trying to add this
[dag]
name=DAG RPM Repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
does anyone have the ...
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Installing openjdk-7-jdk does not update java (which is still version 1.6)
I am having issues updating Java. I am running Ubuntu 11.10.
I can execute sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk and it completes successfully. javac -version is 1.7, however java -version is 1.6. This ...
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Finding Stalled or Failed Updates on System
I was wondering if there is a way to grep through systems to find old updates that have stalled or failed. I am using RHEL 6.
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Hanging at “Running Transaction Test” when trying to install php-soap
I have here a CentOS 5 and I'm trying to run yum install php-soap but the installer hangs on and the last step is Running Transaction Test.
I found out that NFS shares are the problem. See here or ...
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Radeon HD 6570 Display Problem
I recently upgraded my graphics card by buying and installing an AMD Radeon HD 6570. My Windows partition works fine, but my OpenSUSE 12.1 Linux partition is having a strange issue.
When I try to ...
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How can I update to a newer version of Git using apt-get?
I've just set up a new machine with Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 and then run
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install git
Now if I run git --version it tells me I have git version 1.7.5.4 but on my ...
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I want to upgrade to Debian Squeeze, but what are some pre-caution procedures that I should take?
I want to upgrade to Debian Squeeze and there are quite a few guides out there, but I want to be safe and make sure I don't break my system. Is there a way to check if my current install packages are ...
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How to update kernel without reboot? (ksplice alternative)
How to update running kernel without reboot? I know about Oracle ksplice but it's not free and it supports only distributions that I don't use. Are there alternatives to ksplice?
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Automatically update MPD database upon external storage insertion
I have an Alix board in my living room running Voyage MPD edition and acting as jukebox.
In order to play "guest" music, I would like that MPD automatically updates its database with the content of ...
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Tips for making software updates automatic in OpenSuse (zypper)
I'm currently working in a command line only environment.
I would like to perform daily updates automatically using zypper, however I can't find a good way to do it. By good I mean clean and simple.
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