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I'm trying to "apt-get distupgrade" to move on to strech from jessie on existing device in order to be able to run on RPi3B+
But following instructions avalible it stays at jessie anyways, Also tried the old rpi-update but no luck.
Aren't repositories updated for download as new images are released ?
The strech images has been out a month now for fresh download.

It's quite a hustle to migrate existing projects that are up and running with a complex setup of configurations, softwares and settings.
It would be really nice to be able to update / upgrade to strech the ordinary way.
As I've seen it did work back in the days as we moved fron weezy to jessie!

BJEagle wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 18, 2018 3:48 pm

I'm trying to "apt-get distupgrade" to move on to strech from jessie on existing device in order to be able to run on RPi3B+
But following instructions avalible it stays at jessie anyways, Also tried the old rpi-update but no luck.
Aren't repositories updated for download as new images are released ?
The strech images has been out a month now for fresh download.

It's quite a hustle to migrate existing projects that are up and running with a complex setup of configurations, softwares and settings.
It would be really nice to be able to update / upgrade to strech the ordinary way.
As I've seen it did work back in the days as we moved fron weezy to jessie!

dist-upgrade does not automatically change Jessie to Stretch:

https://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get


Please read the Stretch Blog:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/

I'm trying to "apt-get distupgrade" to move on to strech from jessie on existing device in order to be able to run on RPi3B+
But following instructions avalible it stays at jessie anyways

Do the "instructions avalible" that you have followed include those from the Raspberry Pi Foundation when Raspbian Stretch was released?

See https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/

Scroll down to the section headed How to get Raspbian Stretch

Note that they say, regarding upgrading:
Don't do it.
If you do it, it may not work.
If you still insist, do it this way:

To upgrade, first modify the files /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list. In both files, change every occurrence of the word ‘jessie’ to ‘stretch’. (Both files will require sudo to edit.)

Then open a terminal window and execute

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
Answer ‘yes’ to any prompts. There may also be a point at which the install pauses while a page of information is shown on the screen – hold the ‘space’ key to scroll through all of this and then hit ‘q’ to continue.

I heeded the first piece of advice, so I have never done this. But I assume that the Raspberry Pi Foundation probably know how to configure their own OS. And after 8 months someone would have pointed out any errors...

Hello
Just to admit that "assumption is the mother of all screwups", since my Jessie setup would not run on the brand new RPi3Bplus, I assumed I had to move to stretch.
Well as that actually proved to work - thanks guys - I would also like to point out my own flaw.
I didn't realize that with the dist-upgrade and rpi-update, even jessie runs well on the new pi. All that was needed was a bit of firmware update from rpi-update.
The description above worked, but proved to be a bit of a hustle, and although my setup did work fine, be aware of what's not included anymore in stretch should you have such a setup that for instance use audio.
So to sum things up, I assumed something that wasn't relevant, but both solutions work at least for a headless setup that didn't use audio.
//Cheers


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