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    Retropie: Upgrading Raspbian Jessie to Stretch

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      steeeb
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      Works great on 3b+

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      • AlturisA
        Alturis
        last edited by Alturis

        So wait, is the best practice to upgrade to stretch prior to swapping out to a B+ with that same SD card?

        Meaning follow these procedures on your B, then swap that microSD over to your new B+?

        RP 4.7.1 • Pi4 4Gig • CanaKit Aluminum • 64GB microSD • 1920x1080 BarTop [2 Sanwa sticks]

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        • AlturisA
          Alturis @Lodan-Zark
          last edited by

          @lodan-zark said in Retropie: Upgrading Raspbian Jessie to Stretch:

          Install retropie related packages from source:
          sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh and install everything from source (Retroarch, emulationstation, libretrocores, etc)
          Update: the stretch binary's are now available, there is no need to install from source anymore.

          So does that also mean that we can just do an "Update Installed Packages" operation once we have changed all the setup script sources from jessie to stretch?

          RP 4.7.1 • Pi4 4Gig • CanaKit Aluminum • 64GB microSD • 1920x1080 BarTop [2 Sanwa sticks]

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators
            last edited by BuZz

            I recommend you don't upgrade and instead start from the Stretch image.

            But you would need to update all packages if you have updated a Jessie install to Stretch or the RetroPie packages won't work (due to dependency/library changes).

            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              Nowun @Lodan-Zark
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              @lodan-zark Thanks for this guide! I am doing the final updates for step 7 now. Is this going to leave the old files from my installations while using the previous version? Do I have any manual clean up to do?

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                Nowun @Nowun
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                Just wanted to report in that after following these steps I have a successful migration to stretch on my 3B+ with no loss of configurations! You may want to put in a note about having to hit space to scroll during upgrade, because it doesn't really prompt you and as a noob it took me some poking around to figure out. Also hitting Q was needed to escape some notes that come up during the process.

                Quite painless, and I am right where I left off on my 3b. I completed these steps on my 3b, and then my 3B+ simply works with it right where I left off on my 3b!

                Great guide!

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                  Nowun
                  last edited by

                  @alturis I completed these steps on my 3b, and simply moved the sd card to my 3b+. I did this much later on than the original posting mind you so with newer updates this process may have been simplified since.

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                    m3chstaa @Nowun
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                    @nowun
                    thank you for this!!

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                      raibura
                      last edited by raibura

                      @Lodan-Zark Thank you for this guide, I have successful migration to stretch and my Pi 3B + now is working but i can't launch Attract Mode because an error appear like this:
                      attract: error while loading shared libraries: libGLESv2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
                      but when i go to the folder in opt/vc/lib i can see the file there so i cant understand whats goin on, can you give me some kind of help please? i really appreciate if you would.

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                        jaconey @Darksavior
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                        @darksavior I've hit the same issue. Missing libboost_system.so and vlc failed on dependencies. By stable, do you mean Stretch stable or you just reverted back to Jessie?

                        I have kodiinstalled and it's been updated to 17.6. Do you have the same setup? I wonder if that causes the issue. I also notice that there's an open bug in retrosmc that looks related https://github.com/mcobit/retrosmc/issues/48 Not sure when it's going to be addressed though.

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                        • DarksaviorD
                          Darksavior @jaconey
                          last edited by Darksavior

                          @jaconey I went back to stetch stable back when I was using this method. I started fresh on a stretch 4.4 image. I don't use kodi, but I'd try the fresh image since that's the supported build and should have the libraries needed.

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                            jaconey @Darksavior
                            last edited by

                            @darksavior thanks.

                            I've been able to address the issue. For some reason, vlc-data was installed with different version 2.2.7, which breaks the dependencies. To whomever has the same issue, run apt list --installed | grep vlc and remove any packages that show up there and you should be good. Good luck!

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                              Twquillen @jaconey
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                              @jaconey I have this exact same issue with Missing libboost_system.so and VLC 2.2.7 but I don't know how to remove these packages without using file manager. I'm not at all good at Linux and just trying to make Retropie's for my sons and their friends. Is there any easy way to remove the packages? I tried looking to just uninstall VLC but no luck. Thanks in advance.

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                                m3chstaa
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                                Had no end of issues with stretch even starting from scratch. None are major but it's still annoying. For example, audio on stretch (particularly videos), sounds poor quality like the pitch of music modulates up and down slightly. I was not able to resolve that. Another example, The Gameboy standard shader with retroarch worked fine with Jessie build but was slow as anything on stretch. Gone back to Jessie.

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                                • chicueloC
                                  chicuelo
                                  last edited by

                                  @lodan-zark said in Retropie: Upgrading Raspbian Jessie to Stretch:

                                  Install retropie related packages from source:
                                  sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh and install everything from source (Retroarch, emulationstation, libretrocores, etc)
                                  Update: the stretch binary's are now available, there is no need to install from source anymore.

                                  Can I skip step 6? after upgrading OS and installed packages and making a reboot I am done?

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                                  • mituM
                                    mitu Global Moderator @chicuelo
                                    last edited by

                                    @chicuelo No, you need to upgrade the RetroPie packages, but now you can do it from binary - so it will take considerably less.

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                                      chicuelo @mitu
                                      last edited by

                                      @mitu

                                      Great! I think I tried this at first but didn't find where to update from binary. I am using terminal on Mac to do this

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                                      • mituM
                                        mitu Global Moderator @chicuelo
                                        last edited by

                                        @chicuelo Just update as usual - i.e. Update all packages (from binary).

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                                        • chicueloC
                                          chicuelo @mitu
                                          last edited by

                                          @mitu
                                          You are the man!
                                          Last question, the optional steps are recommended or necessary? upgrading firmware. Im doubting about this

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                                          • mituM
                                            mitu Global Moderator @chicuelo
                                            last edited by

                                            @chicuelo said in Retropie: Upgrading Raspbian Jessie to Stretch:

                                            You are the man!

                                            Well, I didn't write the instructions, @Lodan-Zark did. Yes, you don't need to update the firmware. You should re-pair your controllers though, a lot of drivers have been updated in Raspbian and they might not work as before.

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