Pandabear
(Pandabear)
August 19, 2023, 12:18pm
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Every two months I usually follow these instructions for updating the forum.
If you self-host Discourse, you occasionally need to run a manual update via the command line to get the latest security releases newest libraries. These updates are not picked up in admin/update, which is why you’ll occasionally need to do this additional step.
Discourse itself should be updated about twice a month, by clicking the “Update to Latest Version” button in your admin dashboard (admin/update).
Every two months we recommend SSH’ing into your web server (using putty or your favor…
In the next step I get a warning message
As for Ubuntu updates, make sure you have automatic security updates enabled for your Ubuntu! The command is:
dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
However, that just covers critical security updates. Every so often you should get all the OS updates like so:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
When I run the following command apt-get dist-upgrade
I got the following message
What should I choose? Thank you.
Jagster
(Jakke Lehtonen)
August 19, 2023, 1:03pm
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Keep the local, aka.your earlier edited version. There is no need to overwrite it just because of some minor editing of that template or because of changed version number.
That isn’t Discourse dependent thing, though. It is matter of servers.
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Pandabear
(Pandabear)
August 20, 2023, 4:40pm
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Thank you, I did what you recommended.
system
(system)
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September 19, 2023, 4:41pm
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