How to update cockpit-machines package?

[chall3ng3r]

Hello,

I installed cockpit and machines package through apt install cockpit-machines command on Linux Mint 20.3. It installed v215 instead of the latest one, or even a ver behind latest.

Cockpit main also updated to v261, but I have v260-1~bpo20.04.1.

How I can install updates to latest version?

[chall3ng3r]

never mind, I looked up install instructions again and noticed backports, tried same with machines package, sudo apt install -t ${UBUNTU_CODENAME}-backports cockpit-machines and it updated it to v259.

VMs page was crashing before this, now it started working as expected.

[smoke007]

For anyone else looking for how to get a newer version installed on Linux Mint; here is the command:

. /etc/os-release
sudo apt install -t ${UBUNTU_CODENAME}-backports cockpit cockpit-machines 

I requested for this to be added to the install directions page:
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-project.github.io/pull/795