Regularly updating your Raspberry Pi is essential to ensure the security, stability, and performance of your system. By performing updates, you ensure that all software and packages installed on your Raspberry Pi are up to date, allowing you to benefit from the latest improvements, bug fixes, and security patches.
In this lesson, we will explore several ways to update the Linux operating system on your Raspberry Pi.
The first step is to update the list of repositories with the following command:
sudo apt update
Next, you can install the available updates for the installed software:
sudo apt upgradeTo perform a complete system upgrade, use the command:
sudo apt full-upgradeTo free up space, you can remove old and unnecessary packages and dependencies with the following command:
sudo apt autoremove