On 20.3.18 17:27, ray carter wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much! It's more involved than I expected, but it's also a
>> more drastic upgrade than I was looking for. Seems like the best
>> approach is to save /home on usb flash and attempt the upgrade. If it
>> flops, then do a clean install and restore /home.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>>
>> bob prohaska
>
> The major downside (as I see it) of going with a new install is that you
> loose whatever additional packages you may have installed over time - so
> you need to add them again.


You can save the package selections and import them to the new
installation. See .
Direct upgrade from Jessie to Stretch is hairy and prone to fail.

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