Linux raspberrypi updating notes

This morning I updated the RPi's software.  It took a long time, perhaps an hour, to update the OS.




*** Raspberry Pi - Check your firmware version ***

http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#Check_your_firmware_version

*** Check CPU version:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

* output *

Processor       : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l)
BogoMIPS        : 697.95
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xb76
CPU revision    : 7

Hardware        : BCM2708
Revision        : 0008
Serial          : 000000007a804813


*** Check RPi firmware version: 

$ uname -a

* output *

Linux raspberrypi 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux

*** Check GPU firmware with:

$ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd version

* Output *

Oct 25 2012 16:37:21
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 346337 (release)

*** To update OS:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

* output *

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ date Sat May 18 03:02:09 UTC 2013
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get update
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ date Sat May 18 03:03:56 UTC 2013

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ date Sat May 18 03:15:20 UTC 2013
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade

...

276 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 59.7 MB/292 MB of archives.
After this operation, 12.4 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
...

Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d....done.
Processing triggers for dictionaries-common ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
pi@raspberrypi ~ $


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