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.
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sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade |
2) Open the Sources.list file
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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list |
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.
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sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade |
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!
Thank you, this worked amazingly.