# Honeycomb LX2160: How to update prebuilt image

**URL:** <https://community.solid-run.com/t/honeycomb-lx2160-how-to-update-prebuilt-image/331>\
**Category:** NXP LX2160\
**Created:** [May 23, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/honeycomb-lx2160-how-to-update-prebuilt-image/331 "2022-05-23T13:20:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![kruegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9fc29f/32.png) [@kruegel](https://community.solid-run.com/u/kruegel)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/honeycomb-lx2160-how-to-update-prebuilt-image/331/1 "2022-05-23T13:20:52Z")

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I’ve installed a prebuilt image onto am Honeycomb system and did some customisation - adding new packages etc. a few months ago. Now I’d like to upgrade to the lastest software, but without having to reinstall and reconfigure everything from scratch again.

Is there a recipe for this? For the whole user space it’s easy - a apt update && apt upgrade will do the trick. But kernel etc don’t get updated. So I downloaded the lastest prebuild image, used a loopback device to mount it, found an xspi\_header.img and an ubuntu-core.img in it, copied both, unmounted the image, mounted the ubuntu\_core image and got a Linux rootfs.

What do I need from this?

- /boot/\*
- /extlinux/\*
- /lib/modules/\*

Anything else?

Best Regards  
Frank.

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**Author:** ![jnettlet](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.solid-run.com/jnettlet/32/62_2.png) [@jnettlet](https://community.solid-run.com/u/jnettlet)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.solid-run.com/t/honeycomb-lx2160-how-to-update-prebuilt-image/331/2 "2022-05-23T15:19:41Z")

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The easiest method is to just upgrade you system through apt and exclude the kernel. The existing lx2160a\_build BSP is not designed to be maintained as standard installation since the kernel is not packaged.