📺Software Update

Software updates

The beauty of WLAN Pi OS and the new way of distributing WLAN Pi features as Debian packages, is that your WLAN Pi can be easily upgraded without the need for re-imaging the SD card. Having said that, occasional re-imaging might be required, mainly because some code changes need to be applied to the actual low-level system files and services.

Update from Terminal

You can check for available updates to packages by

sudo apt update

After this process finishes, the updates can be installed with:

sudo apt upgrade

WLAN Pi OS Linux kernel is now also distributed as a Debian package, and it can be updated using the same apt commands shown in the paragraph above.

Update using the display and buttons

You can navigate to Menu > System > Software Update > Check for Updates. This checks for newly available WLAN Pi only packages (they all start with wlanpi- prefix), without touching any other Linux packages.

To perform the actual installation of these latest WLAN Pi only packages Menu > System > Software Update > Install Updates.

If you just want to install the latest updates, you can simply use the Install Updates option.