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Published inJun 2015
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Ryad El-Dajani
Ryad El-Dajani
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Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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Updating the operating system

This recipe explains how to update your Linux operating system using the apt-get program.

Updating (or upgrading) the Linux system is important, still quite simple. Almost every day, the community improves the software that is used on Linux systems. Some updates are just for new features while others are incredibly important. Think of the dangerous Heartbleed Bug in the widely used cryptography library OpenSSL in April 2014.

Therefore, distribution upgrading is highly recommended on a regular basis but at least once a month.

Getting ready

The following ingredients are required for this recipe:

  • A booted Debian-based operating system on your Banana Pi

  • An Internet connection

How to do it…

Upgrade your whole Debian-based Linux distribution by performing the following steps:

  1. Connect to your Banana Pi remotely or open a terminal on the desktop.

  2. Type in the following command into the shell:

    $ sudo apt-get update

  3. If asked to type the password for sudo, enter the user's password...

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Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.
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