Updating DA on Debian 7 (License Issue)

[bobkmertz]

I'm creating this post at the suggestion of @bdacus1 rather than continue in the previous thread.
I currently have a Debian 7 installation and I tried to log in to DA yesterday and received a "License Expired" message even though I have a lifetime license. It seems this is related to the new licensing platform that requires a newer DA version.

OS: Debian 7 (64bit)
DA: 1.58.2

The suggestion was for me to perform an upgrade to Debian 8 and, once that was completed, manually upgrade DA on the system. My current hesitation is that custom-build was giving me difficulties the last time I tried to upgrade it and I've been intending on migrating to a newly installed VM later this year. Later @smtalk suggested that the binaries, while not recommended, will run on Debian 7.

I'm gathering that I should be able to just run

/usr/local/directadmin/scripts/getDA.sh current

and that should get me to a DA version that will run on Debian 7 and resolve the license issue and allow me to function until later this year when I do the migration?

Could someone please let me know if this is correct?
Thanks!

 

[wtptrs]

That won't work because Debian 7 is EOL. To install the latest binaries manually, you can try to run the commands linked below:

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[bobkmertz]

That worked like a charm.... I'm now running DA 1.63.8 on Debian 7.

I'm guessing I should just hold at 1.63.8 until I migrate to a new server later this year or will there be an issue migrating from a different version to a new version on another system?

Thanks for the help!

 

[wtptrs]

I think it would indeed be best to hold at 1.63.8 until you can complete the migration, since it is compatible with the new licensing system and future DA versions might not be compatible with Debian 7 anymore. Make sure automated updates are disabled (https://docs.directadmin.com/directadmin/general-usage/updating-da.html#automated-updates).

You can backup -> restore DA backups between different DA versions without issues.

 

[bobkmertz]

root@mojo:~# /usr/local/directadmin/directadmin config-set autoupdate 0
autoupdate=0
root@mojo:~#

Thanks again for your help!