HPR4492: How to do a distribution upgrade of an Ubuntu LTS on a Digital Ocean droplet

Hacker Public Radio

Content provided by HPR Volunteer and Hacker Public Radio. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by HPR Volunteer and Hacker Public Radio or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

3d ago

MP3•Episode home

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.

Digital Ocean maintains its own version of the Ubuntu core packages which are hosted in

it's own repositories. To upgrade from one LTS to the next the do-release-upgrade program

must know to use third party repositories during the upgrade process.

RELEASE_UPGRADER_ALLOW_THIRD_PARTY=1 do-release-upgrade

Moving data from a previous version of Postgres to the latest. In this case, the

obsolete Postgres v12 to the default Postgres v14 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

 pg_dropcluster --stop 14 main pg_upgradecluster -v 14 12 main

Fixing NextCloud after the upgrade.

The version of PHP upgraded from v7.4 to v8.1. The old versions of the Apache2 PHP modules must be disabled and the new versions enabled.

a2dismod php7.4 a2enmod php8.1 apt install php8.1-pgsql apt install php8.1-gd

References:

Provide feedback on this episode.

860 episodes

#Tech News #Community Radio #Tech Interviews #Linux #Open #Software Freedom #HPR Volunteer #Hacker Public Radio #Tech Tips #Tech #Podcasting Education #Hobbies