Which firmware for Beagleboard Blue?

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Hello,
I bought beagleboard blue board some time ago, but never used. Now I have some time.
The firmware seems to be outdated, I have a couple of “not found” errors, on sudo apt update

I want to flash newest firmware, but I do not know which one I have to use. I do not find firmware version, specially named for Blue board.

About my board:

debian@beaglebone:~$ uname -a
Linux beaglebone 4.4.59-ti-r96 #1 SMP Tue Apr 4 17:39:20 UTC 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /etc/dogtag
BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2017-04-09

Board’s Internet access I have (Wifi activated)

Many thanks in advance
Richard

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latest-images search on this forum will get the latest. But, I think there is an issue w/ the current images and the BBBlue working w/ the librobotcontrol lib if this is what you want.

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Thank you! I will try this week, when I have time.

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I’m looking for the latest image for a BBBlue with which I intend to work with the librobotcontrol library. As silver2row pointed out (and as I recall reading somewhere), there seems to be an issue with some recent images and the BBBlue working with the librobotcontrol library.
Does anyone have any advice on this?
Many thanks.

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ya might need buster or stretch image
linux version 4.14.61-ti-r68 or older based on some of the documentation
take a look at, they indicated a fix for 5.x. version

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Thank you, amf99, for your suggestions.
Unfortunately, it seems that the buster image is no longer supported. Today, when I tried to update buster, the output was:

debian@beaglebone:~$ date ; uname -a ; sudo apt-get update
Thu 17 Jul 2025 06:24:36 PM WEST
Linux beaglebone 4.19.94-ti-r43 #1buster SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 22 06:11:16 UTC 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
Ign:1 Index of /debian buster InRelease
Ign:2 Index of /debian buster-updates InRelease
Ign:3 Index of /debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Err:4 Index of /debian buster Release
404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.90.132 80]
Err:5 Index of /debian buster-updates Release
404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.90.132 80]
Err:6 Index of /debian-security buster/updates Release
404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.90.132 80]
Hit:7 Index of /debian buster InRelease
Reading package lists… Done
E: The repository ‘Index of /debian buster Release’ no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository ‘Index of /debian buster-updates Release’ no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository ‘Index of /debian-security buster/updates Release’ no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
debian@beaglebone:~$

However, the real problem is that librobotcontrol has likely reached its EOL. In other words, support for librobotcontrol in newer Linux images has probably ended. If so, I wish it were clearly stated somewhere in the BeagleBone documentation or forums.