Hi! Yesterday I tried to update my Ubuntu Server 20.04 box as regular (sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y --allow-downgrades && sudo apt autoremove -y) and got this message Code: The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled: librpmsign8 libmagick+±6.q16-8 rpm2cpio libimage-magick-perl libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra sntp libimage-magick-q16-perl imagemagick php-symfony-expression-language libgegl-0.4-0 librpmbuild8 libzmq5 python2.7-minimal php-symfony-console libmagickwand-6.q16-6 libgegl-common roundcube-plugins libpython2.7 debugedit python2.7 fail2ban libpython2.7-dev roundcube-core php-symfony-filesystem librpmio8 ntp ntpdate php-symfony-finder imagemagick-6.q16 rpm-common rpm librpm8 php-symfony-dependency-injection ruby-rack libjs-jquery-ui roundcube-mysql php-symfony-config roundcube libopenexr24 libsdl2-2.0-0 libmysofa1 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 libpython2.7-minimal php-symfony-cache php-symfony-var-exporter libpython2.7-stdlib composer php-symfony-process imagemagick-6-common Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro The strange part was The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled: Digging a little more, I've found a post that address the issue here Why is Extended Security Maintenance needed for apps in Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS in 2021? where the user ogra (seems to be some kind of Ubuntu insider) pointed me out that I have to opt in for Ubuntu Pro to have the LTS support for my box. The Canonical folks grants every user with 5 boxes for free, but after that, the cost for Ubuntu Pro for the Ubuntu Server is u$500 (https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro) per machine per year. How will this affect ISPConfig? Should I migrate to Debian? Thanks!
ISPConfig should work fine on Ubuntu Pro. But personally I am a bigger fan of Debian, as well as our other 2 core developers. So we usually test on that distro.
This also started happening to me yesterday on a Xubuntu 22.04.1 laptop (originally 20.04 but upgraded this summer) Code: # apt full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled: imagemagick libopenexr25 libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libmagickwand-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6.q16 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6-common Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro What makes it truly strange is that all the packages shown are up-to-date on the machine (I checked; I even removed and re-installed them). Even stranger, my identically configured Xubuntu 22.04.1 desktop (originally 14.04 but upgraded many times over the years) has all the same versions of the same packages, but does not give out this warning. I compared the /dev/apt folders on both machines in case it is an errant configuration problem, but there were no discrepancies. Update: Even weirder - apt-get has no issues Code: # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. May be just a bug with apt?
In my just upgraded to Ubuntu Server 22.04 box: Code: [email protected]:~$ apt policy imagemagick imagemagick: Instalados: 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 Candidato: 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 Tabla de versión: *** 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1 500 500 https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu jammy-apps-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3build2 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
Quoting the last response from the discourse ubuntu thread: I think they should change that sentence to something more friendly, this way seems that you got no security updates for those packages
How do I get Ubuntu Pro free of charge? I am just a poor amateur developer. I have an Ubuntu 22.04 laptop, Ubuntu 22.04 home server, Ubuntu 20.04 public VPS.
I don't think you need it for Ubuntu 22.04. But if you want to keep 20.04 and don't want to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 plus getting the updates their provide in their pro plans, then you might have to sign up for this service. As you can see from the quote in #6, this 'warning' is basically just a marketing attempt for their business services as you don't need it, and nothing has changed in regard to the availability of updates. So if you were happy with the updates that you received from ubuntu in the past, then just ignore the message.
You can also try the tips / tricks shared in here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1434762 or in here: https://git.ispconfig.org/ispconfig/ispconfig3/-/issues/6392#note_104723
Seems to work, upgraded with sudo apt-get install ubuntu-advantage-tools then ran sudo pro detach and ran a package update and the message seems gone…
