Is there an issue running apt-get update or apt-get upgrade on the Nano?
I don’t think so. I think it’s a good thing to keep the system updated.
Only thing is that you shouldn’t do dist-upgrade do-release-upgrade, if you do you might have to reflash.
Wat?!?! I have been doing dist-upgrade without a problem since I got my Nano. What does it break, specificially and how?
Well, not sure, but this may only be ok as long as there is no dist upgrade available.
I remember having accepted a dist upgrade from Ubuntu14 to Ubuntu16 a long time ago on TK1 and had to reflash, so I’d not advise this.
I think that L4T is a set of drivers/libs added to a specific Ubuntu release, so upgrading Ubuntu release/kernel might result in these no longer working. Not tried with recent L4T releases, though.
I think you could possibly be confused with do-release-upgrade (that command really needs to go, it’s confusing). Dist-upgrade doesn’t upgrade to a new Ubuntu version. It just adds new packages and remove old ones rather than simply updating.
After you mentioned it I double checked to make sure and I can’t think of any risk unless packages are incorrectly marked for removal, in which case they would break with an --autoremove. That’s possibly what happened to you if it wasn’t do-release-upgrade that did it.
Yes, probably you are correct. Sorry for confusion.
No worries. It’s a confusing command. Not to try do-release-upgrade on a Nano image I care about is good information :)
Well - You guys were correct! Thanks
This would apply to any Jetson, AFAIK.
Fwiw I tried it (I wanted to see how it broke) and the command reported no now release as it does when it happens on PC. Somebody probably fixed it so it no longer breaks the system.
nano
test@custom-nano:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
[sudo] password for test:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
There is no development version of an LTS available.
To upgrade to the latest non-LTS develoment release
set Prompt=normal in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.
host
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
[sudo] password for username:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
There is no development version of an LTS available.
To upgrade to the latest non-LTS develoment release
set Prompt=normal in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.
Did you try do-release-upgrade -d ? Without this, it may only upgrade if a newer LTS release is available. Note that this might break your system.
Good call. I did now (i’m not worried about the image. I can just reflash.)
test@custom-nano:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
[sudo] password for test:
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
There is no development version of an LTS available.
To upgrade to the latest non-LTS develoment release
set Prompt=normal in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.
It looks like it’s fixed :)