And even paid license need a login of your Jolla account.
There is a comprehensive CLI update client … you’ll find it the usual places Chum, the free store etc
Thanks for your responses.
Since i don’t care about android support i’ve chosen the free version.
I have a working jolla acount (i can install apps from the Jolla store)
Is there a list of these “usual places”? I’ve been using SFOS for a long time (since the first jolla phone) but i’ve never used anything outside the jolla store 
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@Seven.of.nine thanks for the link!
The free version also has a feature to not update automatically.
Please also see this issue:
Storeman is for OpenRepos, use the link below to download and install storeman-installer,
https://openrepos.net/content/olf/storeman-installer
then let it run and it will install the right version of Storeman for your device. Please be patient on installing, it needs it’s time until the new Storeman starter icon occurs on the app grid.
For Chum use this link:
https://chumrpm.netlify.app/
there choose your SFOS version and device architecture, proceed and it will install the Chum app.
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I would like to add, that for an ordinary user the easiest way to install Chum is SailfishOS:Chum GUI Installer that can be found in Storeman. So, to recap: install Storeman first and then proceed by installing Chum and then you are good to go!
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Cheers, now there’s your problem. (Referring to https://shop.jolla.com/ under “What you get”.)
I know reflashing to latest version takes time and effort, but there is always an option to pay for the license.
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SailFish OS is a RPM Linux distribution. With ssu or zypper you can enable, disable and refresh RPM repositories. After that, you can update the system downloading the new 33 packages that are in .21 compared to the .24. I think that it works as well between .19 and .24 and my suggestion is to try that simple way to go and then deciding further actions or not.
Somtimes much less time and effort than trying to fix an old system.
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Now i’m confused . @Blumenkraft 's remark is clear, but does updating via ssu still work?
I’m used to having a community edition of SailfishOS on my fairphone2 and have been updating using the procedure listed here:
https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris/Install_SailfishOS_for_fp2
Should that still work? (Replacing the version number with the one relevant for the X10iii of course).
You are confused because you have been asked too many questions and received too many information most of then not necessarily related to your case. Transition between 4.3 to 4.5 is a big jump (a good designed system would not push this burden on the shoulders of the end-users but this is another story). Transition between .19 and .24 is just two nano-versions .19, .21 and .24 because in the middle there is nothing. Let see it in this way:
4 - version
5 - sub-version
0 - micro-version
24 - nano-version
What you really want is not that the .19 turns into .24 but that the functionalities and the bug fixing delivered with the .24 will be installed in your system. You might argue that this is not “upgrading” as you initially asked for but it is reasonably what you want. In this case, the best way to go is to refresh your RPM repositories - supposing that all of them are correctly configured and enabled - and then update all the RPM packages.
devel-su
ssu refresh
ssu update
I wrote these command trying to remember their syntax, because I am not using SailFish OS and I have used it just few months. However and whatever the syntax would be correct or not, you can use ssu or zypper or the default RPM manager pacman or some of them to do obtain the same result:
- refresh your repositories;
- update the RPM packages you are using and they have changed.
That’s all.
ATTENTION
Just a 2nd time reminder:
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this should work in a decently configured system in which all the RPM repositories are correctly configured and enabled.
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updating the RPMs on your system probably will much probably not change the version displayed but all the features and all the bug fixes will be installed.
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because you are moving among two nano-versions the procedure is bare simple but in the most general case the procedure can be more complicated.
Also in Ubuntu moving from 10.04 to 12.04 was not bare simple but the same between 20.04 and 22.04 was much more easy and pleasant. While moving from 20.04 and 20.04.4 was pretty straightforward and this is what we are expecting moving from .19 to .24.
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Thanks for your informative post.
My main confusion is that one member tells me the free version can’t be updated, the other one telling me it can be updated .
Are you trying to say that the software can be updated but that the (reported) sailfish version won’t change?
My install is quite fresh (about 6 months old) and i’ve never added/removed/enabled/disabled any repo’s, so i assume it’s ok. Is there a way to verify that?
Try before asking. Then report the result.
Hi @pa4wdh ignore all others and follow @Seven.of.nine `s post. as he quotes @DrDweeb
You can follow Updating Sailfish OS | Sailfish OS Documentation BUT as the guide says:
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Thanks for your post @emva.
I’ll get some USB storage so i can do a proper backup (the SD card slot is used by a 2nd SIM), and try the script.
The licensed version has notifications about updates in the UI, and has a GUI updating tool. Free or community versions do not.
All versions have the capability to be updated through the command line, using various methods, among them zypper, ssu, and the sfos-update script.
Note that while community versions (ports) may be updated in theory, some of them do not offer a current version. So while the tools are there, the software packages may not be available.
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Thanks for the info.
I’ve used a community version for about 6 years on my fairphone2 so i’m aware that it might be behind a bit (although the maintainer did a good job trying to keep up).