---
categories: ['OpenWRT','System']
date: 2020-02-24T19:17:42+01:00
description: "howto upgrade packages on OpenWRT with the tool opkg!"
draft: false
tags: ["OpenWRT","upgrade","opkg","tips","sysadmin"]
title: "OpenWRT : opkg upgrade (tips)"
translationKey: "openwrt-opkg-upgrade"
---

## Description

OpenWRT has a native tool to manage package: `opkg`.

But, by default, there are not plan to upgrade easily all packages, even 
`upgrade` option exists.

This is the tips:

```sh
# for name in `opkg list-upgradable | awk '{print $1}'`; do opkg upgrade "${name}"; done
```

Or, if you you have created a user who has the right to use the `sudo` 
command:

```sh
$ for name in `sudo opkg list-upgradable | awk '{print $1}'`; do sudo opkg upgrade "${name}"; done
```

---