What’s the advantage of mere Ansible on mere shell-scripting if one doesn’t use communally-maintained Ansible-Galaxy roles?
“not sure I understand idempotent well enough to understand the answer”.
upgrade
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:
What is the prefered way of updating all software in a Fedora installation?
When I install some system, I usually look for a bulk update method, one that will update my recently-installed software.
How to upgrade shared library without crash?
Here it says that you can rewrite an executable file and the process will run just fine – it will be re-read when a process restarts.
Ubuntu upgrade from 17.04 to 18.04
I’ve installed ubuntu 17.04 and I want to upgrade it to 18.04. When I tried to do:
Full-upgrade to Debian testing fails due to libc6-dev : Breaks: libgcc-8-dev
I’ve just switched to bullseye (see sources below)
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module 8188eu.ko: Invalid module format
I’m trying to use the TL-WN725N as an USB WiFi-Adapter with Fedora 20.
What is the command-line equivalent to ‘mintupdate’ for Linux Mint?
Linux Mint has a nice GUI-based Update Manager with selectable update tiers. The defaults are for levels 1 through 3 our of a possible 5 levels. However, I often handle administrative tasks for a number of Linux Mint desktop systems using SSH rather than visiting the physical machines. How do I achieve the same functionality from the command line?
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 similar goal in mind, bu after implementing all of the suggestions in that post, I was still hit by apt-listchanges.
From 3.5 to 5.6.2 – Recommendation on how to get there with the least amount of pain?
I’ve recently been asked to help someone who’s neglected their WordPress for a long time. They’re currently on 3.5. I need to get them current. I’m considering the following options: