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Hi all,
I created a Digital Ocean server using Forge and I have MySQL 8.0.20. I need to upgrade this to the latest version but I can't find a clear tutorial to do this. I don't have the proper knowledge to do it.
Can someone help me with this?
Thanks in advance.
@sergiogregorutti https://forge.laravel.com/docs/1.0/resources/databases.html#upgrading-databases
Forge does not provide the ability to upgrade your database server software automatically. If you wish to upgrade your database server, you will need to complete this manually.
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I know that I have to do it manually, but I don't know how to do it. I can't find a tutorial to update the minor version.
Updating software in that fashion on Ubuntu is the same as installing:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
However, often a distribution of Linux (for example, Ubuntu 20.04) only has one "official" version of software included/built for that version of the OS.
So, minor version updates may not be as simple as running sudo apt-get install mysql server.
However, if Forge uses a secondary repository (perhaps a ppa from Launchpad) that regularly builds newer versions of the software (mysql in this case), then running apt-get install mysql-server may work to do the minor upgrade.
To test that out, you can safely run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mysql-server (without the -y flag!) and it will tell you if it's about to update the software or not.
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