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title: "Enable the Sensor Auto upgrade"
slug: "sensor-upgrades"
updated: 2024-07-10T19:54:52Z
published: 2024-07-10T19:54:52Z
canonical: "docs.redcanary.com/sensor-upgrades"
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# Enable the Sensor Auto upgrade

The auto-upgrading sensor package is named **cwp**. To install it, first uninstall the existing package (previous packages are named canary-forwarder or canary_forwarder) then install the auto-upgrading package.

> **Note**: These steps are relevant if there is an existing deployment of the sensor as either canary-forwarder or canary_forwarder. New deployments using the cwp package do not have additional steps.

## Steps

### Debian

1. sudo apt remove canary-forwarder
2. sudo apt autoremove
3. sudo apt-get update
4. sudo apt-get install cwp

### RHEL/Centos 6, 7, 8

1. sudo yum remove -y canary_forwarder
2. sudo yum install -y cwp