I have a pi running Raspbian GNU/Linux 7.
How can I move this to newer versions? I'd prefer not to do a clean install as that would involve restoring all my bits and pieces of customisation.
Chris Green
How to upgrade from Raspbian 7 to 8 to 9?
Jun 28, 2018
6 Replies
Hi,
It's like a classical upgrade on debian.
There is also rpi-update for the kernel (may read the man to select the good kernel for the release).
Ah, thank you. Looking on the Raspberry Pi site it said that just doing 'apt dist-upgrade' should do it - but it didn't. The above tells me *why* dist-upgrade didn't work and how to do the job properly.
Chris Green
Did you remember to do apt-get update first?
-TV
Yes.
'apt dist-upgrade' will only upgrade if the sources.list file has 'stable' in it rather than wheezy or jessie or stretch. Mine had wheezy in it so I needed to change all wheezy to jessie.
Chris Green
Don't forget to also make that change to any files in /etc/apt/ sources.list.d subdirectory.
Of course, not that I had anything there as mine is a minimal Pi installation with virtually nothing added.
I did discover it was still running Logitech Music Server (which I no longer need) and that was using a *lot* of storage.
Chris Green
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