Continuing the discussion from Problem with self hosted instance: I feel like I have seen this too many times where people follow the install guide and come back and say that their install did not work. IMHO, I think by adding a section into the guide before the install, to run apt update & apt upgrade, would sort out this issue before it is a problem. It won’t harm anything by running it, but it will help having the updated software before creating the docker and etc Anyone have any comments on this ?

Adding a bit about how to set up auto upgrades is a pretty good idea.

well, i want to suggest this [image]

That would be awesome! Please make a PR for it :slight_smile:

hi Gavin! I made a small comment on the PR; please take a look when you can. Other than that, looks good. Thanks for fixing the broken window :slight_smile:

i dont see a comment, only an edit am i blind ?

sorry - it’s been a looong while since I used Github’s review system. My review was pending :upside_down_face: You should now see it.

No worries :slight_smile: I made the changes. thank you :slight_smile:

[image] IAmGav: I feel like I have seen this too many times where people follow the install guide and come back and say that their install did not work. IMHO, I think by adding a section into the guide before the install, to run apt update & apt upgrade, would sort out this issue before it is a problem. This is a non sequitur. Can you give me any reproducible problem that this extra step realistically solve?

Slightly adjacent, but I found the excitement of actually getting the ‘Congratulations, you installed discourse! :tada:’ screen made me forget about the rest of the guide. :slightly_smiling_face: I did remember the Post-Install Maintenance eventually, but perhaps there’s space for a ‘Prepare your Cloud Server (optional)’ section inbetween “Access Your Cloud Server” and “Install Discourse”? That could include the dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades, apt install libpam-cracklib, and fail2ban info, and maybe the apt-get update/upgrade?

Should the install guide tell people to run apt update & apt upgrade first?

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IAmGav (Gavin Perch) October 26, 2021, 1:04pm 5

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/14719

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Should the install guide tell people to run apt update & apt upgrade first?

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