Troubleshooting • Re: "update are avilable" failure jugsaw piece

Thank you MarkDH102

I look forward to tring it out for next update, I normally use sudo apt update

sudo apt update, merely calculates the upgrade and works out what needs doing. The changes don't actually happen until you run apt upgrade or apt full-upgrade.

Yes you are right (I am not sure why you made the posting) , then I have to follow it with
(Well I do not have to do this one)
apt list --upgradable (to get the list of updates)

and then this one to update
sudo apt dist-upgrade (give Y/N) To do the update

No. That's wrong!

You should not do sudo apt dist-upgrade

That is to upgrade between releases of the OS; for example from Bullseye to Bookworm. Doing a distro upgrade like that on Raspberry Pi OS is generally advised against and is not supported. The recommended way is to do a fresh install. If there is no distro update available; it will do absolutely nothing...so your system will not be updated.

just do

sudo apt update

then

sudo apt full-upgrade

Statistics: Posted by kip_the_elder — Tue Aug 05, 2025 10:42 am

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