Upgrades won't upgrade
Hi, so I've noticed that on NGINX ubuntu server, there are a few recent upgrades, 7 of which, would not upgrade with 'sudo apt upgrade'
Any idea as to why this may happen?
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mjones
Linode Staff
It may be that you're running a version of Ubuntu that doesn't have upgrades available for those services. Which version of Ubuntu do you have on your Linode?
As Woet said, try upgrading with dist-upgrade first. If that doesn't work you could upgrade your version of Ubuntu, either by an inline upgrade or by deploying a new version of Ubuntu to a new Linode, and copying over any files you need with rsync.
I recommend the second option to limit any problems, especially if there's more than one version number between your current version of Ubuntu and the version of Ubuntu you'd like to upgrade to. We have a guide on upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 from Ubuntu 16.04 here.