doing a Raspian upgrade on my Raspberry Pi3

I had this Raspberry Pi3 for a while now, but never upgraded, so it is time to learn, a few simple commands from the command terminal shell :


sudo apt update          to make the device check for updates over the web.

sudo apt list             to see what packages are upgradable

sudo apt dist-upgrade         to make it install the updates. it will prompt you Y/n  to continue or not.

sudo rpi-update        update the RPI firmware

sudo apt autoremove            to clean up old packages

sudo apt clean          to clean up un-necessary cache and files remaining after the upgrade.

sudo reboot          to restart the device

Then to System Tools > Package Update (may have to add this option to the System Menu)