How to update? (openclaw update does not work)

[halllo]

What is the best practice regarding updating an instance to the latest version?

I tried openclaw update but that does not work:

node@cf78a4eeeddd:/app$ openclaw update
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Updating OpenClaw...


Update Result: ERROR
  Root: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/openclaw
  Reason: global install stage

Recovery hints:
  - Detected permission failure (EACCES). Re-run with a writable global prefix or sudo (for system-managed Node installs).
  - If you recover with sudo/manual package install on a managed Gateway, stop the Gateway first so it does not load files while the package tree is being replaced.
  - Example: npm config set prefix ~/.local && npm i -g openclaw@latest
  - System install outline: openclaw gateway stop -> sudo <system-npm> i -g openclaw@latest -> openclaw gateway install --force -> openclaw gateway restart.

Total time: 789ms

Also sudo is not available in the container.

What I currently do is drop the container and recreate it:

podman pull ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw:latest
podman rm -f openclaw-...
curl -fsS -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/instances/openclaw-.../start

Since data is in the volume this seems to work. Is this the best current practice?