📺Software Update

Software updates

The beauty of WLAN Pi OS and the way of distributing WLAN Pi features as Debian packages, is that your WLAN Pi can be easily updated 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.

Automatic check for software updates

Your WLAN Pi periodically checks for newly available versions of packages and it will notify you. Use the wlanpi-update command to upgrade packages. This process updates the packages to their latest versions. It is non-destructive and it will keep your user data on the SD card.

3 packages can be updated

It also checks for new software image. If you choose to upgrade to a new image, download it from our GitHub, save your data from the SD card and flash the new image to the SD card. Keep in mind that all contents of the SD card will be removed!

New software image is available

Update all packages from Terminal

When we say "all packages", we mean packages created by the WLAN Pi team, as well as other application and system packages. You can check for available updates to packages. This command won't install any package, it will only check what are the latest versions of packages available from the online repositories.

sudo apt update

WLAN Pi checking latest package versions available from these repositories

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

sudo apt upgrade

WLAN Pi ready to upgrade 1 package to a new version

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.

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Only update packages created by WLAN Pi team

If you only want to update packages that we have created, use the wlanpi-update command.

It will first check for available updates:

4 packages created by WLAN Pi ready to be updated

After you press the letter y, followed by enter key, the upgrade will begin:

Four packages being upgraded