IMX8 Debian Package Update

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Upgrading Debian Packages

Debian Package Upgrade

By default Debian release uses snapshot at the time of release. The package upgrade requires manual addition to the latest apt resources.

Warning

• Latest debian.org packages may break your application libraries stack of your existing application.
• Please verify your application and package dependencies before upgrading to latest Debian packages.

Adding debian.org to apt source list

# echo "deb https://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib nono-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_update.list
# echo "deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib nono-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_update.list
# echo "deb https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib nono-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_update.list
# echo "deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib nono-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian_update.list

Updating package repo

# apt-get update

Installing / Upgrading to latest package

# apt-get --only-upgrade install <package name>

i.e. if you wish to upgrade apache2 below is example of it.

# apt-get --only-upgrade install apache2