# Can't update Balena CLI

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-update-balena-cli/370235>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Tags:** balena-cli\
**Created:** [April 3, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-update-balena-cli/370235 "2024-04-03T18:21:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/0ea827/32.png) [@Wayne](https://forums.balena.io/u/Wayne)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-update-balena-cli/370235/1 "2024-04-03T18:21:01Z")

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Hey folks,

I’ve ben real lazy and haven’t updated Balena cli for some time, What I used to do in the past is just download the latest zip, so in my case I have downloaded **balena-cli-v18.1.5-linux-x64-standalone.zip**

Now what I’d do in the past is just extract and copy the contents to my Balena folder, however, even after trying this and copying over the existing files, when I run it, I just get the same message?

Sorry I haven’t been catching up with how to install the latest, but any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![chrisys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/chrisys/32/1731_2.png) [@chrisys](https://forums.balena.io/u/chrisys)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-update-balena-cli/370235/2 "2024-04-11T15:16:49Z")

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@Wayne at first glance I would guess that when you run the ‘balena’ command, it’s not running the version extracted into the folder, but rather one somewhere else on the machine. There’s likely an ‘installed’ version and binary somewhere else. You could confirm this by running `./balena` to use the version in the directory.

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**Author:** ![TJvV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TJvV](https://forums.balena.io/u/TJvV)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/cant-update-balena-cli/370235/3 "2024-04-12T07:20:00Z")

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Hi,

A little hint for finding out which `balena` is running, is to use… `which balena` .  
That should give you the exact path of the executable.

If you’re using Windows, you can use the similar command `where.exe balena`.  
Note that in a PowerShell terminal it is important to specify the `.exe` extension as `where` is a keyword.