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Upgrade

Upgrading Falco on a Linux system

This section provides upgrading paths for Falco if previously installed following the Install section.

Upgrading

Debian/Ubuntu

If you configured the apt repository by having followed the instructions for Falco 0.27.0 or older, you may need to update the repository URL:

sed -i 's,https://dl.bintray.com/falcosecurity/deb,https://download.falco.org/packages/deb,' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/falcosecurity.list
apt-get clean
apt-get -y update

Check in the apt-get update log that https://download.falco.org/packages/deb is present.

If you installed Falco by following the provided instructions:

apt-get --only-upgrade install falco

CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Amazon Linux

If you configured the yum repository by having followed the instructions for Falco 0.27.0 or older, you may need to update the repository URL:

sed -i 's,https://dl.bintray.com/falcosecurity/rpm,https://download.falco.org/packages/rpm,' /etc/yum.repos.d/falcosecurity.repo
yum clean all

Then check that the falcosecurity-rpm repository is pointing to https://download.falco.org/packages/rpm/:

yum repolist -v falcosecurity-rpm

If you installed Falco by following the provided instructions:

  1. Check for updates:

    yum check-update
    
  2. If a newer Falco version is available:

    yum update falco
    

openSUSE

If you configured the zypper repository by having followed the instructions for Falco 0.27.0 or older, you may need to update the repository URL:

sed -i 's,https://dl.bintray.com/falcosecurity/rpm,https://download.falco.org/packages/rpm,' /etc/zypp/repos.d/falcosecurity.repo
zypper refresh

Then check that the falcosecurity-rpm repository is pointing to https://download.falco.org/packages/rpm/:

zypper lr falcosecurity-rpm

If you installed Falco by following the provided instructions:

zypper update falco

Last modified April 13, 2021: Add upgrade guide for openSUSE (6a5ef0c)