On 29.6.18 11:07, Chris Green wrote:
> yamo'  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Chris Green a écrit le 28/06/2018 à 23:04 :
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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.


Did you remember to do apt-get update first?

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