Updating the RPi OS from OctoPrint?

[kjs]

Running OctoPi 1.8.1 as a remote controlled system controlled only by OctoPrint so far I update the OS by logging in with SSH and then running sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade followed by reboot. Is there a way to do that from OctoPrint? I searched the forum and went thru everything in OctoPrint and plug-ins and couldn't find something.

If such a feature doesn't exist, I may just be to "blind" to find it, it might be something for a future version of OctoPi. Just a button "Update RPi OS" which then runs the update commands. My assumption is that many run the Pi without ever updating their RPi OS. I know three users which didn't even know that this should occasionally be done.....

[Ewald_Ikemann]

OS update is not intended from within OctoPrint.

But you may have a look on this:

Can we get an OS update option in the Octopi menu?

Apologies if this has been discussed to death.. I realize there may be issues with things possibly getting broken.. but I think it's a security issue to not be running sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y. It might be nice to have a security tab that discusses what fixes are available and the option to apply them. I don't think it's a good idea to wait for the next release of an Octopi image. I really don't like the idea of putting it in cron as that could go off in the middle of a …

[kjs]

Thanks for the response!