How do I patch or update my VPS?
When you get a freshly delivered VPS, you should always patch it before your use it for production purposes.
If you are using RedHat / CentOS / Fedora or CloudLinux this is acheievd using the following command.
As root:
yum update
The output will be a list of packages which need updating. You can review this and then choose Y to go ahead with the patches or N to abort the patching.
"yum update -y" can be used to patch everything without giving a report first.
If you are using a Debian or Ubuntu Linux distribution, then you need two commands one after the other.
Both as root
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Two these two commands will update all of the packages on your VPS to the latest upstream versions.
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