# Software maintenance

**URL:** <https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447>\
**Category:** ADS-B Flight Tracking\
**Created:** [August 30, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447 "2024-08-30T15:27:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimBAC60](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/timbac60/32/129114_2.png) [@TimBAC60](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/TimBAC60)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447/1 "2024-08-30T15:27:10Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![abcd567](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/abcd567/32/113769_2.png) [@abcd567](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/abcd567)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447/2 "2024-08-30T15:36:12Z")

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(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 `

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**Author:** ![tomvdhorst](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/tomvdhorst/32/137059_2.png) [@tomvdhorst](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/tomvdhorst)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447/3 "2024-08-30T17:30:16Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![TimBAC60](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/timbac60/32/129114_2.png) [@TimBAC60](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/TimBAC60)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447/4 "2024-08-30T18:26:15Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![TimBAC60](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/timbac60/32/129114_2.png) [@TimBAC60](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/TimBAC60)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447/5 "2024-08-30T18:27:32Z")

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Thanks Tom, helpful. I don’t recall doing any updates since April so maybe due a few.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discussions.flightaware.com/system/32/38558_2.png) [@system](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/software-maintenance/94447/6 "2025-08-30T18:28:15Z")

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