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Control panels like to take over take over the whole system. It’s generally best to do the install on a fresh server. You can installing on top of your existing set up if you don’t want to move the 12GB of data around, but I wouldn’t expect that any web site that you have setup with Apache will continue to work. Though it might surprise us!
I’d suggest taking a snapshot of the droplet before doing this. That way you can revert back if you don’t like the results.
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