Installing

Installing under Raspbian

To install the tool, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install rpi-update

Installing under other OSes

To install the tool, run the following command:

sudo curl -L --output /usr/bin/rpi-update https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update

Updating

Then, to update your firmware, just run the following command:

$ sudo rpi-update
$ sudo reboot

UPDATE_SELF

sudo UPDATE_SELF=0 rpi-update