# Ubuntu update uninstalls license

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-update-uninstalls-license/4797>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 10, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-update-uninstalls-license/4797 "2012-07-10T14:42:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-update-uninstalls-license/4797/1 "2012-07-10T14:42:22Z")

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So I’m on site and notice that the gateway (running on Ubuntu) needs serveral months of patches installed. I do that, reboot (required due to new kernel), and the gateway is in trial mode and there is no sign of the install license.

Note to devs: License has been reactived.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-update-uninstalls-license/4797/2 "2012-07-10T15:20:36Z")

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Older versions of Ignition used to require that you unactivate before doing system updates. This shouldn’t be the case in newer versions.

What version was your gateway?

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-update-uninstalls-license/4797/3 "2012-07-10T15:22:37Z")

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> [@Kevin.Herron](#):
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> What version was your gateway?

7.2.9

I shall remember for the next time.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ubuntu-update-uninstalls-license/4797/4 "2012-07-10T15:27:04Z")

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> [@Robert](#):
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> 7.2.9

Yep, that'll do it. One of the things the old licensing logic looked at was the last modification to /bin, which tends to happen pretty much any time you update the system.