New pfsense user - update to 22.05 questions
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I just have a few newbie questions and I know they are :)
I read the update guides etc. It noted uninstalling packages. I havent installed any to my knowledge. Though listed are IPsec Profile wizard and aws wizard, which I believe where preinstalled.
I did do a manual backup of the router. So my question is do I need to uninstall those or just leave them since they are not updated etc just update through the webgui and see what happens?
I have the SG-1100 and very basic setup since im still working on learning its software etc.
Just trying to save myself the headache of a bricked router, by me doing something stupid :)
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@bobsoul said in New pfsense user - update to 22.05 questions:
I just have a few newbie questions and I know they are :)
I read the update guides etc. It noted uninstalling packages. I havent installed any to my knowledge. Though listed are IPsec Profile wizard and aws wizard, which I believe where preinstalled.
I did do a manual backup of the router. So my question is do I need to uninstall those or just leave them since they are not updated etc just update through the webgui and see what happens?
I have the SG-1100 and very basic setup since im still working on learning its software etc.
Just trying to save myself the headache of a bricked router, by me doing something stupid :)
You can leave those built in packages without issues.
Normally it’s not really needed to uninstall packages to upgrade - it’s just a “extra precautionary action” you can take to remove the most common causes of upgrade failures (but still rare) -
@keyser Thanks ! Thats what I thought, so I went ahead and it all went smoothly... Just have to remeber be patient :)
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@bobsoul congrats on your successful upgrade and for reading the documentation. I had people arguing with me a few days ago that doing so was unreasonable. Faith in pfsense user base somewhat restored!
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@gabacho4 unreasonable ? dang documentation and youtube are the first go to items then google next... specially something like a router
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@bobsoul these guys disagree. They shouldn’t have to read/know the documentation or best practices
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/173092/pfsense-22-05-wireguard-dependency-not-documented
Congrats and thank you for taking the time to educate yourself. Really was a breath of fresh air.
