Upgrading to Raspian (Jessie) on Raspberry Pi

So you’ve just gotten your new, shiny Raspberry Pi, and you’re installed Raspbian on it.  Raspbian installed with NOOBS (New Out of Box Software) is a version called “Wheezy”, which as some of you may know, is not the latest and greatest release.  If you need help installing Raspbian, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has a great how-to here. But if you’re ready to go,  upgrade to Raspbian Jessie with these steps.

1) Update your current installation

Run the following commands, one at a time.  These may take awhile to complete.

2) Open the Sources.list file

3) Change instances of “Wheezy” to “Jessie”

 

4) Ctrl + X and then Enter to exit Nano editor

5) Issue the following commands, again

These also will take quite a bit of time to complete, feel free to grab a cup of coffee.

Once those are complete, that’s it!  You may see a few prompts asking whether or not certain files should be upgraded.  Enter “Y” for yes, unless you have a reason not to upgrade them.

Happy updating!