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Episode: 4492
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Title: HPR4492: How to do a distribution upgrade of an Ubuntu LTS on a Digital Ocean droplet
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4492/hpr4492.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-11-22 14:58:40
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4492 for Tuesday, 21 October 2025.
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Today's show is entitled How to Do a Distribution Upgrade of a Nubuntu LTS on a Digital Ocean
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Droplet.
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It is hosted by Rowan and is about 6 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is Rowan Upgrades as Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Digital Ocean Droplet to 22.04 LTS.
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Welcome to another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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Today, I learned how to update my Digital Ocean Droplet running Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu
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22.04 LTS, but the LTS is, if anyone's up for done an upgrade, just up to raid Ubuntu
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before it's usually pre-strength-forward, and overall this was, but Digital Ocean maintains
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its own version of the Ubuntu Core Packages, and the normal program to release upgrade
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disables any third-party repositories and just runs against the Ubuntu repositories.
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Unfortunately, when you do this, you get the error message.
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You can't find the Core Packages after a little duck duck going, or as it's usually
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called Mugeling, I am found a podcast, a post about how you do this, because I really
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am thinking, ah, do I need to go in and change my sources list and all this, and this
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person, the post, that actually says, no, you do not need to mess with the sources list
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that you have to do, is pass a environment variable to the do release upgrade program,
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environment variable being release, creator allow third-party, set that equal to one, and
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do release upgrade, but then happily use your third-party repositories while doing the
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upgrade.
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So then after that, it was pretty standard, yeah, let it run, let it do all the downloads,
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saying, yes, I want to keep my considerations for various packages, and, you know, after
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a nice cup of coffee, he's got your new 22.0 for LTS, quick reboot and test the system,
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and generally, nothing, no problems, although I did run into issues running next cloud.
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I have a couple other websites, one, hpr.coring.us, if you want to see the new site, so are those,
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and in the future, you may already be looking at the new site, but anyway, that was a little
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time, but next cloud was PHP, and I quickly realized that when looking at the status of the
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Apache Server, it wasn't starting because it was still trying to load the old PHP 7.4
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module, which was removed, and so I just, you know, had to enable the PHP 8.1 module.
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I got my stuff closer, I did then still get a different error message about this internal
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error. I found the next cloud logs, and it said it can't connect to the database, and I was
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like, what's going on? And I think, oh, right, it needs a module to be able to connect to Postgres,
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which is the database I'm using. Actually, which reminds me, I actually did also, there was a
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message for the upgrade that Postgres 12 was obsolete, and it's been upgraded to Postgres 14,
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which really is kind of old at this point, but, you know, we're an LTS behind anyway going to
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22.4, but it didn't give you nice instructions on basically saying, if you want to move your
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old Postgres cluster to the new Postgres cluster, you need to basically delete the current Postgres,
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the default Postgres 14 cluster it created, and it gives you a nice command, PG drop cluster,
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dashes stop, 14 main, and then there's a PG upgrade cluster command, and you just give it the
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old cluster, and you tell it, you want to get to a new cluster, and it takes care of things right
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away. So I did actually do that first before I started messing with the PHP stuff, because I knew
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that was going to be an issue. So next, after getting PHP running and getting the Postgres mod
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running, I did actually see next cloud running in my browser, but it was throwing one more error
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that it couldn't find, the GD module. GD does the graphics module it uses when it's for the
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photo album and things. So then I did have to enable that, and both the PG, the Postgres module,
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in the GD module I had to install. I have notes in these, or in the show notes, there are references
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to the commands that were run to make it easier for you to run into this yourself. But after
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that, everything looks good. It seems to be running. I do play into upgrade to 24x4, but first thing I want
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to do is move my next cloud instance from using blocks storage to using s3 storage, but that is
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the project for another day. Anyway, thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoyed this episode of
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