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Learning Raspbian

You're reading from   Learning Raspbian Get up and running with Raspbian and make the most out of your Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392192
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Harrington William Harrington
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian 2. Getting Started with Raspbian FREE CHAPTER 3. Starting Raspbian 4. An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop 5. Installing Software on Raspbian 6. The Console 7. Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian A. References Index

Installing updates


Raspbian is constantly under development, and updates that have fixes, new features, and security improvements are continually being released. It is highly recommended that you install all the updates that are available. There are many ways to do this, including using apt get and Synaptic.

Installing updates using apt-get

The apt-get command can be used to update the software in your Raspberry Pi. The first thing you need to do is ask apt-get to get the list of all pieces of software that are available for installation on your Raspberry Pi:

sudo apt-get update

This command may take a few minutes depending on your internet connection. To perform upgrades of the packages, you need to run the following command:

sudo apt-get upgrade

This command will download and install all the latest packages from the Raspbian repositories on your Raspberry Pi. You will then be fully up to date!

Installing updates using Synaptic

Updates can also be installed using the Synaptic Package Manager...

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