I've had to update rclone 3 times now, so I'm documenting this here. To update rclone, do the following:
1: fetch and install
wget https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.42/rclone-v1.42-linux-amd64.zip
unzip rclone-v1.42-linux-amd64.zip
cd rclone-v1.42-linux-amd64
2: Copy binary file
sudo cp rclone /usr/sbin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/sbin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/rclone
- Check your version
rclone -V