1) Check your current minikube version.

minikube version

2) check your latest minikube version available to install or update.

minikube update-check

here you will see LatestVersion v1.29.0, and that’s where we are planning to upgrade too.

3) Stop if your minikube cluster is running.

minikube stop & then check the status of your minikube status.

4) Delete your minikube cluster .

minikube delete

5) Remove minikube binary files from /usr/local/bin/minikube
Check -- # ls -ltr /usr/local/bin/minikube
Remove -- # sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/minikube
Verify -- # ls -ltr /usr/local/bin/minikube

6) Download latest minikube binary from here Minikube Download

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64

7) After downloading it,Install minikube.

sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

& that’s it we have installed and upgraded our minikube cluster successfully. Whoooo Hoooooo !!!
Verify the status with below command.

minikube version

8) Start your minikube cluster.
Note :- This will take some time to pull base kubernetes v1.26.1 images to start your minikube
cluster.

minikube start

9) check the status of your minikube cluster.

minikube status

10) simpletest way to install & upgrade minikube run the below script , you can get it from my github repo

./minikube_install.sh

Happy Learning