Operating System update: Raspbian Stretch is out!

NastyButtler322

@dankcushions I want to try Debian's arm 64 version. I didn't know it was complete. I liked openSuse's 64 bit version well enough. I was doing a Linux from scratch build from openSuse, until I realized that I don't know how booting on the pi works lol. I think I read that its a proprietary boot loader? I don't remember now.

Stiffler

@gaavoid I updated my Pi 3 retropie (including updating the OS) a few hours ago and it remained on Jessie after the update. If I remember the only OS updates were a few firmware packages. My system works fine after updating, hope this helps.

psyke83

@stiffler said in Operating System update: Raspbian Stretch is out!:

@gaavoid I updated my Pi 3 retropie (including updating the OS) a few hours ago and it remained on Jessie after the update. If I remember the only OS updates were a few firmware packages. My system works fine after updating, hope this helps.

You have to edit sources.list manually or else it won't do a proper distribution upgrade. That's good, because stretch isn't compatible yet. Emulationstation won't compile properly, so don't do the update until everything's ready.

gaavoid

@stiffler @psyke83 Cool, and thanks. Wasn't sure if this was the case.

Crescendo

and I already upgraded to stretch prior reading this forum....
it's very unstable compared to Jessie.....

herb_fargus

@cresfang unstable because you upgraded from Jessie or unstable because dependencies aren't met on a fresh build

Crescendo

@herb_fargus no, not the RetroPie that's unstable....
I can't even build the RetroArch & EmulationStation on Stretch, and I'm aware of that you still working on it...

What I mean is the Raspbian Jessie is more stable than Stretch - OS wise, and I do fresh install, not upgrading....
Sorry that my prior post caused confusion...

Fresh as I downloaded the whole image and dd it to sdcard....

NowArrivingHere

Well, I already upgraded to Stretch before I saw this. I then did an 'all installed packages update' including underlying OS packages. Emulation station loads just fine for me and most of my many, many packages compile from source with no issues. I have put together a running list of the ones that don't install properly. However, I should note that both Commander Genius and XM7 failed to install properly under Jessie as well, so something is going on there.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12675/various-build-from-source-packages-failing-on-raspbian-stretch

herb_fargus

@nowarrivinghere cgenius has a pending PR that works on stretch.

NowArrivingHere

@herb_fargus

Nice. Hey, do you have any idea when Retropie_setup will reopen for Stretch users? I've just updated my script to 4.2.20 a few minutes ago, and while emulation station and my current packages still work, I can't attempt to install/uninstall packages or use any tools. I get booted out of retropie_setup.sh with a message saying Stretch is not supported.

BuZz

@nowarrivinghere there is no ETA.