Is there any benefit to updating the pi or fa software on any sort of regular basis?
I’ve had a couple of issues in recent days and having connected a screen etc to my pi I’m wondering if I should be doing an ‘apt-upgrade’ or anything.
Is there any harm in doing it?
(1) Which OS you have, piawareSD card image from Flightaware, OR RaspberryPi OS from RaspberryPi org, or something else?
(2) What is output of following command. It will show which version of OS you have (Buster / Bullseye / Bookworm)
lsb_release -a
Updates can be useful in order to keep a healthy system.
I do the updates weekly on my systems in order to keep them up to date.
I use the following commands:
Check what is available:
sudo apt update
Install updates
sudo apt upgrade
Remove old packages if needed
sudo apt autoremove
If needed do a reboot to finish all up.
sudo reboot
I don’t do a weekly reboot, only if the system requires it.
Output here:
pi@piaware:~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye
Thanks Tom, helpful. I don’t recall doing any updates since April so maybe due a few.