Upgrade MariaDB to a higher version, without bricking the install

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Upgrading MariaDB in Virtualmin

You shouldn’t do it at all. But if, here are the steps… Pay attention at every step and don’t do without a current backup! All steps assume you’re logged in as root. Otherwise, prefix with sudo. Perform database backup: mysqldump -u [username] -p[password] [database_name] > backup.sql Stop MariaDB server: systemctl stop mariadb Find the to be installed version number on mariadb.org and pop it in at the end (e. g. 11.2.3): apt install software-properties-common;apt-key adv --fetch-keys 'ht…