[Bio-linux-list] uptdating softwares on biolinux

[Flavia Flaviani]

Hi Tony,

I have run the

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

but it seems that it didn't upgrade the version of swarm to the latest one.
I am not sure if I will have to restart the system, in which case, is it
possible to do it remotely?

Do you or anyone have any other suggestion? I am not sure if by downloading
the packedge and installing it on top of the others will create system
issues. Has anyone had this problem before


Thank you for all the advice

Regards

flavia

2016-02-03 16:18 GMT+00:00 Tony Travis <tony.travis at minke-informatics.co.uk>
:

> On 03/02/16 15:50, Flavia Flaviani wrote:
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > thank you so much for the advice. I will give it a try. just a quick
> > final question, will I have to run both sudo command?
>
> Hi, Flavia.
>
> No, just get a "root" shell instead - e.g. on my laptop "beluga":
>
> > ajt at beluga:~$ sudo -i
> > [sudo] password for ajt:
> > root at beluga:~#
>
> After that, you have root authority and don't need to use "sudo".
>
> I normally access Bio-linux on terminal servers via "ssh" or "x2go" and
> update them without any problems - The only time you need to access the
> physical console of a Bio-Linux server is if you need to boot single
> user to run diagnostics, or do a clean install. In fact, you can do a
> remote install of Bio-Linux if someone boots the remote server from a
> DVD or USB-stick locally for you and enables "ssh" for the 'live' user.
>
> > We access through
> > Remote desktop connection or ssh into Biolinux, do you reckon I will
> > have to have access to the real machine after the update?
>
> I recently did remote installations of Bio-Linux on some servers at the
> Mario Negri Institute in Milan, from my office here in Scotland, with
> help from my friend in Milan who booted their servers from a Bio-Linux
> USB-stick and enabled "ssh" for the 'live' user so that I could login.
>
> I've used this approach many times before to do remote diagnostics and
> disaster recovery of Bio-Linux running on remote servers around Europe.
>
> With an IPMI connection you can access the remote console directly, but
> it is a serious security vulnerability to expose IPMI on the Internet.
>
> Let me know how you get on?
>
> Bye,
>
>   Tony.
>
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-- 
Flavia Flaviani

*PhD student*
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of Cape Town, South Africa
In collaboration with
The marine Biological Association of the UK (Plymouth, UK)
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