On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 02:30:37 +0000 (UTC), bob prohaska 
declaimed the following:

>ray carter  wrote:
>> Next - go for it:
>>   sudo apt-get update
>>   sudo apt-get upgrade
>>   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>   sudo reboot

>
>At this point the pi account is locked on my machine, will that interfere
>with upgrading? Seemed to me that the pi account is rather integral to
>the system, sort of like root on *bsd.
>

 The "sudo" command is used to temporarily elevate the account you are
logged in as to run "root" commands.


 Though it may be easier to just create a tar archive of /home, (s)ftp
that archive to your "mainframe", create a new SD card with recent NOOBS
image, install that and go through the NOOBS configuration stuff, (s)ftp
the tar archive to the new Raspbian, and untar it over the default /home of
the new SD card.


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