Failed to upgrade to Virtualmin Pro - Claims I installed using the RPM, but that is untrue

Virtualmin
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I get this error when trying to upgrade to Virtualmin Pro: Failed to upgrade to Virtualmin Pro : Virtualmin has been installed from an RPM, but not using the Virtualmin GPL repository. Upgrading is not possible at this time.

Problem is, that is completely untrue. I installed Virtualmin GPL using the “install.sh” script straight from the site.

Where do I go from here?

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Howdy,

Hmm, what is the output of these two commands:

ls /etc/yum.repos.d cat /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo
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[root@v3 ~]# ls /etc/yum.repos.d
CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Vault.repo mirrors-rpmforge-extras webtatic-archive.repo
CentOS-Debuginfo.repo epel.repo mirrors-rpmforge-testing webtatic.repo
CentOS-fasttrack.repo epel-testing.repo rpmforge.repo webtatic-testing.repo
CentOS-Media.repo mirrors-rpmforge vz.repo

[root@v3 ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo
cat: /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo: No such file or directory

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Ah, it doesn’t actually appear that you have the virtualmin.repo file there.

How did you initially install Virtualmin, was that using the install.sh script?

Also, what is the output of this command:

rpm -qa | grep wbm

If the output of the above command all looks good, then it’s just a matter of us re-creating that virtualmin.repo file.

Though, note that it looks like you have a number of third party repositories enabled there. We have seen quite a few issues come up due to third party repositories… we’d suggest caution with those, possible even disabling them until there’s a package you’re certain you need. However, that’s not the cause of the current problem you’re seeing.

-Eric

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Hi there - thanks for your responses. I downloaded the install.sh script from here: http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh, set it as +x, and executed.

Output from rpm -qa | grep wbm is as follows:
[root@v3 ~]# rpm -qa | grep wbm
wbm-virtualmin-mailman-6.3-1.noarch
wbm-ruby-gems-1.4-1.noarch
wbm-virtualmin-init-2.5-1.noarch
wbm-virtualmin-sqlite-1.4-1.noarch
wbm-virtualmin-awstats-5.1-1.noarch
wbm-virtualmin-htpasswd-2.6-1.noarch
wbm-security-updates-4.5-1.noarch
wbm-php-pear-1.5-1.noarch
wbm-virtual-server-5.03.gpl-1.noarch
wbm-virtualmin-dav-3.8-1.noarch
wbm-virtualmin-git-1.6-1.noarch
wbm-virtualmin-registrar-2.2-1.noarch

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Okay, it looks like it’s a case of a missing virtualmin.repo file, everything else looks good. That’s created when the install.sh runs, something may have happened to that afterwards.

We can re-create that though.

What you’d want to do is make a new file named /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualmin.repo, and give it the following contents:

[virtualmin] name=RHEL/CentOS/Scientific $releasever - $basearch - Virtualmin baseurl=http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin gpgcheck=1

[virtualmin-universal]
name=Virtualmin Distribution Neutral Packages
baseurl=http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/universal/
enabled=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin
gpgcheck=1

After re-creating the virtualmin.repo file, are you then able to upgrade to Virtualmin Pro?

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Looks like that fixed it! Thank you!