Incoherence between installed and active versions

[dvo]

This page provides instructions for migrating away from sunset version

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/how-to-stop-using-tls-sni-01-with-certbot/83210/4

Having a version lower than 0.28, I upgraded according to:

Certbot - Ubuntuxenial Nginx

$ sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx returns after a couple of attempts

python-certbot-nginx is already the newest version (0.28.0-1+ubuntu16.04.1+certbot+3).

So I expect to have the newest version available. Yet
certbot --version || /path/to/certbot-auto --version returns

`certbot 0.26.1` 

which even after a sudo serivce certbot restart or full machine reboot is clearly unexpected.

Note: although helpmight have been more natural, this is filed under client dev as the case is important and the documentation needs tweaking somehow IMHO.

[mnordhoff]

Try running sudo apt upgrade.

[dvo]

@mnordhoff

sudo apt upgrade

That does the trick. Why would upgrade be different that update and why would the suggested documentation suggest one vs. the other?

[mnordhoff]

update updates the list of packages.

upgrade upgrades your software.

(full-upgrade upgrades software with more complex dependency issues.)

install upgrades software sometimes, I think, but is mostly intended for installing it the first time.

[dvo]

thanks for the clarification. I’d suggest the above link instructions state this, as a sort of point 1b) …

[rg305]

@dvo

sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx returns after a couple of attempts

python-certbot-nginx is already the newest version

Most likely because the package was being held back.