eBox package updates

You can either upgrade the components of your eBox system by using the ebox-software package or your favourite package management tool (apt-get or aptitude).

In any of the cases you have to make sure that your /etc/apt/sources.list file contains the eBox repository. If you have used our official installer you probably won't need to do anything.

Repositories

Current stable repository (1.4)

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.4/ubuntu hardy main 

Previous stable repository (1.2)

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.2/ubuntu hardy main 

How to upgrade

First of all, make sure that your package database is up to date by running the following command:

apt-get update

If you have installed the ebox-software module you just go to the Software Management menu on the eBox interface.

Have a look at the Software Updates section of the eBox documentation for more info about this.

If you want to do it manually in a console, here are the two commands you need:

With apt-get dist-upgrade you can upgrade the entire system (all eBox packages will be upgraded to the latest versions available and also any security update from the Ubuntu repositories).

With apt-get install you can specify the list of eBox modules you want to update. For example apt-get install ebox-firewall ebox-dns will upgrade the firewall and dns modules.

Another handy tool is apt-cache policy that shows the current and the latest available version of a given module. Example:

# apt-cache policy ebox-mail
ebox-mail:
  Installed: 1.3.10-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1
  Candidate: 1.3.14-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1
  Version table:
     1.3.14-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
 *** 1.3.10-0ubuntu1~ppa1~hardy1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status