Upgrading Virtualmin?

I was wanting to try wildcard certs with letsencrypt, and saw a note that Virtualmin supports this in version 6.05. I have 6.04 installed … Ubuntu 16.04, Webmin 1.900. Virtualmin has been installed since this server was born (2017) and I’ve never had to do anything special for updating webmin/virtualmin.

But now I am a version behind. What do I do about it?

Howdy,

If you run “apt-get update && apt-get upgrade” on the command line, does it offer to update the webmin-virtual-server package?

Also, what is the output of this command:

dpkg -l 'webmin-virtual-server

Yes, as a matter of fact it does. But the list I get at package-updates/index.cgi?mode=updates&search=&xnavigation=1 does not. Why is that?

dpkg -l ‘webmin-virtual-server’:

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-virtual 6.04.gpl all Webmin module for 'Virtualmin Vir
root@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:~#

I take this back. I think I misread the output. I just ran the upgrade, and I am still at 6.04. Running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade now shows:

root@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Hit:1 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:5 http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/ubuntu virtualmin-universal InRelease
Ign:6 http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/ubuntu virtualmin-xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/ubuntu virtualmin-universal Release
Hit:9 http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/ubuntu virtualmin-xenial Release
Hit:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-4.4.0-101 linux-headers-4.4.0-101-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-103 linux-headers-4.4.0-103-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-104 linux-headers-4.4.0-104-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-108 linux-headers-4.4.0-108-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-109 linux-headers-4.4.0-109-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-112 linux-headers-4.4.0-112-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-116 linux-headers-4.4.0-116-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-119 linux-headers-4.4.0-119-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-121 linux-headers-4.4.0-121-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-122 linux-headers-4.4.0-122-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-124 linux-headers-4.4.0-124-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-127 linux-headers-4.4.0-127-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-128 linux-headers-4.4.0-128-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-130 linux-headers-4.4.0-130-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-131 linux-headers-4.4.0-131-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-133 linux-headers-4.4.0-133-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-134 linux-headers-4.4.0-134-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-135 linux-headers-4.4.0-135-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-137 linux-headers-4.4.0-137-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-139 linux-headers-4.4.0-139-generic
linux-headers-4.4.0-64 linux-headers-4.4.0-64-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-72
linux-headers-4.4.0-72-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-75
linux-headers-4.4.0-75-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-77
linux-headers-4.4.0-77-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-78
linux-headers-4.4.0-78-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-79
linux-headers-4.4.0-79-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-81
linux-headers-4.4.0-81-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-83
linux-headers-4.4.0-83-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-87
linux-headers-4.4.0-87-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-89
linux-headers-4.4.0-89-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-91
linux-headers-4.4.0-91-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-92
linux-headers-4.4.0-92-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-93
linux-headers-4.4.0-93-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-96
linux-headers-4.4.0-96-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-97
linux-headers-4.4.0-97-generic linux-headers-4.4.0-98
linux-headers-4.4.0-98-generic linux-image-4.4.0-101-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-103-generic linux-image-4.4.0-104-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-108-generic linux-image-4.4.0-109-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-112-generic linux-image-4.4.0-116-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-119-generic linux-image-4.4.0-121-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-122-generic linux-image-4.4.0-124-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-127-generic linux-image-4.4.0-128-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-130-generic linux-image-4.4.0-131-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-133-generic linux-image-4.4.0-134-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-135-generic linux-image-4.4.0-137-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-139-generic linux-image-4.4.0-64-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-72-generic linux-image-4.4.0-75-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-77-generic linux-image-4.4.0-78-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-79-generic linux-image-4.4.0-81-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-83-generic linux-image-4.4.0-87-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-89-generic linux-image-4.4.0-91-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-92-generic linux-image-4.4.0-93-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-96-generic linux-image-4.4.0-97-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-98-generic
Use ‘sudo apt autoremove’ to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.