Retropie: Upgrading Raspbian Jessie to Stretch

m3chstaa

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.

chicuelo

@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?

mitu

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

chicuelo

@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

mitu

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

chicuelo

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

mitu

@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.

chicuelo

@mitu
No problem pairing the controllers. I think that's a minor issue compared on starting from scratch.
Thank you very much! I owe you a lot of time and knowledge :)

Eldrethor

Throwing in my two cents here. I was running Jessie 4.4.1, and tried upgrading to Stretch via the steps above, and all was well up until it was time to install ES; I ran into a dependency issue with VLC that couldn't be resolved, but removing and reinstalling VLC did the trick. Everything seems to be in working order now, but that was the one hiccup that I encountered during the upgrade process.

mitu

@eldrethor Did you have any custom repositories installed ? That's usually the reason for such errors.

Eldrethor

@mitu None but the only one that seems suspect is lipobello's RetroRama theme, since I had the original version before he removed the repo. I think I recall having to reinstall that one after I got ES was up and running.

mitu

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

since I had the original version before he removed the repo

I wasn't referring to a Github repository, but to a package repository for apt. The theme couldn't have produced the error you described.

Eldrethor

@mitu Possibly python-pygame? I installed this as a way to get background music playing in ES. Aside from that, everything else is stock.

danringer

@jaconey Probably already fixed it or did it another way but ...

I completed the upgrade to stretch via the means mentioned above and had the same 2 errors. vlc and libboost so

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

and Manage Packages

then Manage Core Packages

then emulationstation

Update from binary

and reboot. fixed.

spartan

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spartan

fixed

polygaryd

The update took forever, probably was less time than it would have to start fresh though. The update process did end with an error, unfortunately I cant remember now what it was due the fact it completed at around 2am and I was exhausted. When I rebooted it wouldn't load ES it failed on libboost_date_time.

I couldnt even run retropie_setup.sh and get to any update screen after the upgrade to stretch Nevermind ES. I would get errors saying:
"You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:"

So i took its advice and i ran "sudo apt - - fix broken install" afterwards I was then able to run retropie_setup.sh, go to update, it updated everything, was able to do a reboot, and boot right into ES. I then took my sd card and put it in a 3b+ pi and it booted perfectly.

Just letting everyone know what happened to me and how i made it through the upgrade process. Hopefully it helps others.

polygaryd

I also wanted to add that i have an error while exiting the bluetooth config screen saying unit sixad.service could not be found. i read that bluetoothhd (i think is what it was called) and sixad cannot run at the same time. so how do you go about fixing this issue?

benjaminjay

Just followed this guide to get my SD card ready for the switch from Pi 3 to 3 B+ and it worked! The safe shutdown/reset buttons on my Nespi case also work! Stoked!!

flower4000

ok so i followed these steps as close as i understood, but after all the steps I'm still on jessie? I didn't really loose anything other than shader preferences (that i noticed), so I'm restoring from a backup and starting over rn. Where do i go to change the word "jessie" to "stretch"? when i run the first line of code theres nowhere to edit sources.