In the past I think there used to be a section in Webmin > Usermin Configuration called Upgrade Usermin where you could upload a file or enter a url or choose to upgrade from www.usermin.com
I don’t see the “Upgrade Usermin” module box in the Usermin Configuration area anymore.
So what is the way to upgrade?
I’ve downloaded the .deb of v2.010 and I’ve also thought about using apt. apt search shows v2.010 but apt upgrade doesn’t upgrade to it.
If you installed using the Virtualmin installer, Webmin does not offer upgrades (and it shouldn’t, you should get your upgrades using your OS package manager, and Virtualmin will notify you of available updates in the dashboard).
Generally, that’s true even if you didn’t install using the Virtualmin installer.
This is the thought you should settle on as the right one. Installing packages using your OS standard package manager is always the best choice, when possible. There’s package manager support in Webmin, as well, so I’m not saying you need to use the CLI, just that the OS package manager is the right way to install packages.
You should figure out why that is. Did you actually install from a deb package the first time? Check with dpkg -l usermin
If you did install from a deb package, what happens when you do apt install usermin? (If you didn’t install from a deb package, you can’t entirely safely do this, so I don’t recommend it.)
First, I’m not on Virtualmin, just Webmin (and I think Usermin either came with?)
Installed many years ago and last year you helped me decide to not try to install Virtualmin and just keep my current setup/config.
here’s my dpkg output:
$ sudo dpkg -l usermin
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
in usermin <none> all (no description available)
I’m guessing that this means it wasn’t installed by .deb?
here’s the same for webmin:
$ sudo dpkg -l webmin
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-===================================================
ii webmin 2.200 all web-based administration interface for Unix systems
Usually I get prompts in the Webmin dashboard to upgrade Usermin.
When I noticed that there was a newer version but it wasn’t being offered … well that’s when I started looking about and then decided to post here before doing anything that might mess things up.