Upgrading Plesk on Linux and FreeBSD Systems

You can upgrade Plesk in either of the following ways:

• Using the friendly interface of your Plesk control panel. You log in to your Plesk control panel as administrator, go to the Server > Updater section of the control panel, choose the product version and the components to install, and simply wait until the installation is completed. This is recommended for most users.
• Using the Auto-installer console utility. You can find it in your Plesk distribution or download from the SWsoft download site. After you run it, you are taken through the upgrade procedure step by step. This will take more time as you will be prompted to choose the options and packages to install at each step.

To update or upgrade your Plesk software from the control panel:

1. Login to Plesk as administrator, and click the Server shortcut in the left side navigation pane.
2. Click the Updater icon in the Services group.

   The control panel connects to the Plesk Update server, retrieves information on the available releases, then analyses the components installed in your system, and displays the lists of available releases and component updates. For each Plesk version released a brief description of available operations is displayed.

   Note: If you want to update/upgrade from a locally stored Plesk distribution or Plesk update server mirror inside your network, click Preferences, select the "Network storage" source type, specify the URL and click OK.

3. Select the Plesk version that you want to update, or upgrade to. A list of available components appears.
4. Select the check boxes corresponding to the components you wish to install and click Install.
5. Specify your e-mail address. You will be sent a notice by e-mail once update is completed.
6. To confirm installation of the selected components, select the checkbox and click OK. The components/updates you selected will be downloaded and automatically installed in the background mode.

To update or upgrade your Plesk software by means of the Auto-installer utility:

1. Run the autoinstaller binary file, which is located in the directory /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/ on RPM-based Linux and FreeBSD systems, and /opt/psa/admin/bin/ on deb-based Linux systems.
2. Type 'n' and press ENTER. The Auto-installer will detect your existing installation of Plesk and ask if you want to upgrade it.
3. Type 'y' and press ENTER.
4. Specify the source of Plesk distribution package.

   You can choose to upgrade from a local medium, the official Plesk update server, or another site. By default, the official Plesk update server is selected. If you wish to retrieve installation files from a local medium or network storage:

   1. Type 's'.
   2. Press ENTER.
   3. Type 1 or 3, respectively.
   4. Press ENTER again. For retrieving files from network storage, you will also need to specify the server URL.
   5. When finished selecting the source, type 'n' and press ENTER.
5. Specify the proxy server settings, if applicable, then type 'n' and press ENTER to continue.
6. Select the product version that you wish to upgrade to: type the number corresponding to the product version you need and press ENTER, then type 'n' and press ENTER to continue.
7. Select the components that you wish to install or upgrade.

   By default, all packages are selected, including Plesk modules. The selected packages are marked with [*] symbols. The packages that are already installed and do not require updating are marked with [=] symbols. To select or deselect a package, type the respective number and press ENTER.

8. Type 'n' and press ENTER. The packages will be downloaded and installed.