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apt update/upgrade #sBitx

Mark Earnest
 

My sbitx basic kit arrived today and works perfectly (sbitx #77 is on the air as I type). I'm keeping it under 10w for now until I replace the voltage regulator, but so far so good.?

The linux admin in me wants very desperately to run an apt update/upgrade on this, but I wanted to make sure first that the currently sbitx software isn't relying on the specific versions of anything that were pre-installed on the sdcard that was shipped with it. Is it expected that we would maintain these as any other raspberry pi and perform that update?

My intention is to have this connected to the internet and remotely accessible so I would want to apply security/bug patches from the apt repositories regularly.?
 

Mark,
Go ahead and do it. You have two safety nets.
First, the original sd cd image is on the gdrive link on (it is too large to be on github.
Second, you can make an SD card backup from the menu (I dont remember where exactly it is). Or you can use the venerable dd command (look up the usage on rpi forums).
Except for the config.txt, I don't see why apt update should change anything. Try both.


On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 7:05 AM Mark Earnest via <mark=[email protected]> wrote:

My sbitx basic kit arrived today and works perfectly (sbitx #77 is on the air as I type). I'm keeping it under 10w for now until I replace the voltage regulator, but so far so good.?

The linux admin in me wants very desperately to run an apt update/upgrade on this, but I wanted to make sure first that the currently sbitx software isn't relying on the specific versions of anything that were pre-installed on the sdcard that was shipped with it. Is it expected that we would maintain these as any other raspberry pi and perform that update?

My intention is to have this connected to the internet and remotely accessible so I would want to apply security/bug patches from the apt repositories regularly.?

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