Tauno Voipio  wrote:
> 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?
>
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.

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Chris Green
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