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I just got a bubba server in the mail yesterday.

I want to install mysql and wordpress. So, I uncommeted the following per another forum post. I installed mysql-server. However, I want to do an update. Will running 'apt-get upgrade' hurt anything ??? There are 20 debian packages on my Bubba server that are out of date.

my: /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main
deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ sarge non-free

deb http://update.excito.net/ bubba main

Hi tknab,

Just to start of by make things clear. Excito can of course not guarantee support if you mess things up by adding and removing packages. In the worst case you have to reinstall your unit.

That said an upgrade should not be any big problems. You might be asked to answer some configuration questions which in worst case could change Bubbas functionality. But chosing default is often a good bet.

What could go wrong when doing an upgrade is if there are a conflict between an upgraded package and our bubba package. We do some ugly stuff in that to overide settings in some other packages.

In this case the upgrade will fail.

The solutions in this case is to uninstall the bubba package. Do the upgrade and then reinstall the bubba package.

A final warning on this is not to leave the debian sources active if you also use Bubbas web-admin to do updates of the firmware. That upgrade can't handle interaction of debconf etc. So always comment out these sources when done with external package installation.

/Tor