In an ideal world all the software I use would be installed from the Debian repositories and it’d be a single click to keep it all up to date. In reality it’s not that simple. The built in package manager does a pretty good job but there are pieces of software that can’t be installed via that system as there’s neither a Debian package nor a Flatpak or the version available in Debian is woefully out of date. I started this page because of the latter issue. I wanted to install Rclone and the Debian packages were nearly two years behind the official release.
Rclone
This one is very easy to update (official documentation):
rclone selfupdate
When run it’ll show you the version currently installed and the new version that will replace it. If there’s no update available it’ll report the version is up to date. Before updating it’s probably worth checking out the release notes here.