Updating SatNOGS Client Software but I still ended up with āstretchā
So I followed these instructions " Upgrading from Debian āstretchā to ābusterā Method 2"
It all worked fine but lsb_release -a told me I had Release 9.11 Codename stretch
What are my options besides download and burn a new image for the RPi?
can I do sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade? Then upgrade Satnogs client?
My station ID-724 is off the air while Iām in this pickle.
Iām NOT a programmer and I normally believe if itās not broken, donāt fix it but the message sounded like a pretty important upgrade was necessary.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and your efforts to help a hardware man.
Where can I find the latest image? The one I downloaded from the wiki link is dated 2019-09-11 and the zip file is named image-2019-09-11-Raspian-SatNOGS-lite.zip. Probably the old, now redundant upgrade.
I also found this on gitlab satnogs-pi-gen-2020030400 by following another wiki link.
A better date but is it for Raspian? Iāll find and read some readable files and see if that clears it up.
Did some reading. From what little I understand, satnogs-pi-gen-2020030400 is not an image but is used to build an image if you know what you are doing. I know just enough to be dangerous. I run Linux Mint 19.3 with MATE desktop. Mint is based on debian right? so it should work but they mention debian buster. I thought buster is the latest Raspian version? Clearly Iām in it way over my head. Looks like Iāll have to wait until someone smarter than me creates a downloadable Raspian buster image.
It also looks like the wiki page needs some deleting or clarification of older obsolete information to reduce confusion for us noobs.
A good thing I didnāt try to update both my stations. Lesson learned from doing the last update where I ended up having to burn a new image. 568 still working.
Thanks for your help Pierros & Mark
I found the old image from the big download button on the wiki page which now points to the new image.
This is really weird.
I recently destroyed my main HDD partition and had to re-install Linux Mint 19.3 from scratch. I canāt see how this would matter, unless somehow the old wiki page was cached somewhere on the data partition?
I shall try again and report back when it all works again.
Thanks Bob vk2byf
It looks like ID-724 is working again on Raspbian stretch minus the upgrade.
It looks like stretch is preventing the upgrade and wiki method 2 is not updating the distro to buster even though I enabled it in the Advanced section of satnogs-setup.
Unless I can come up with a method to easily upgrade to Raspbian buster without flashing a new Micro SD card, it will have to keep running as is.
The confusion came about because the unzipped archive extracted to 3 files with the 2019 09 11 date which led me to believe I downloaded the wrong archive.
I did all of that but it didnāt work. I think the update doesnāt work because my RPi OS is still stretch.
wiki Method 2 does not update stretch to buster even though I have enabled it in the advanced section of satnogs-setup. I have changed nothing else.
I had similar problems updating my ID-568 station. Ended up corrupting the SD card and had to burn a new September 2019 image which is still working.
The Update updates the configuration tool only. If you do that on stretch, Ansible will then complain about unsupported release and exit.
But running sudo satnogs-upgrade manually, should start the upgrade process. Be aware that this method of upgrading requires a lot of time (even more than an hour) and requires a fast internet connection.
Itās working so I wonāt worry about it too much until Iām forced to update. Maybe others will have similar problems and a solution will be found.
Thanks, Bob