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    Update Raspbian? How?

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      Pyjamarama
      last edited by Pyjamarama

      Sorry to be a pain BUT I have been building this RetroPie for 5 months. Loooots of configuration.

      Have you got any practical procedure on what to backup in order to put them back in a new RetroPie setup?

      Thanx!

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        meleu @Pyjamarama
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        @Pyjamarama

        can you give the output of uname -a?

        What version of RetroPie did you use when you started this instalation?

        What is your current version of RetroPie?

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          Pyjamarama
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          Pi3

          Retropie 4.0.2

          Linux retropie 4.4.11-v7+ #888 Monday May 23

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            meleu @meleu
            last edited by

            @meleu said in Update Raspbian? How?:

            What version of RetroPie did you use when you started this instalation?

            I really mean RetroPie, not Raspberry Pi. :-)

            I think you are sufficiently updated anyway...

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              Pyjamarama
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              Continuing to be a pain :)

              Do you know which folders should I backup in order I decide to do a fresh install? The roms folder surely but I am trembling in the idea of losing my all over the place configs.

              The "Could not install balh blah" messages are killing me and seem to get worse...

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                meleu @Pyjamarama
                last edited by

                @Pyjamarama
                https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/updating-retropie#making-a-backup-option-1

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                  meleu @Pyjamarama
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                  @Pyjamarama said in Update Raspbian? How?:

                  The "Could not install balh blah" messages are killing me and seem to get worse...

                  Can you give us an example of these messages?

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                    Pyjamarama
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                    https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4359/daphne-libglew-dev

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                      BuZz administrators @Pyjamarama
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                      @Pyjamarama post a full log. Could be network connectivity etc.

                      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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                        RetroResolution
                        last edited by RetroResolution

                        Just to offer some insight, I've got a fresh installation of Raspbian Jessie with Pixel, and RetroPie 4.0.3 installed on a test Pi 3, and it's great. The new desktop is fine and reasonably swift, and RetroPie is fine.

                        I also performed a dist-upgrade on my main Pi 3, which was running Raspbian Jessie from the May 27th image, and had RetroPie 3.8 on it. This system had a lot of additional software, including a custom ffmpeg and retroarch build for RetroPie recording, along with monodevelop, VPN, kodi, and loads more, built over five months.

                        After the update the desktop suffered from random reloads of the main menu bar, but the worst effect was a noticeable lag when dragging windows around the screen. Moving Chromium around felt like the window was connected to the mouse by elastic (the rubber-banding effect in Daytona springs to mind!)

                        I'm currently restoring a backup. I think the only way forward, with a view to having a stable , reliable, system, is to manually rebuild the entire installation on the new Raspbian base, as I've no idea what's underlying the odd performance and stability issues. This seems to be a general rule with o/s upgrades on most platforms...

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