how to update 7.0.2 to 8.2.1

1st Official Post

    hi,

    I'm new in this forum.

    I tryed to search for update but results a lot unrelated questions, so post a new thread.

    I had a very old RPi 1B to be used mainly as media player with a 8 GB SD and remote controller:

    SODIAL(TM) Mouse USB senza filo con telecomando per PC: Amazon.it: Elettronica

    There is Noobs to dual boot Raspbian (fully updated) and LibreELEC 7.0.2 and Kodi 16.1 that I never updated as it work.

    Yesterday I tryed to update LE, following the instruction at:

    downloads – LibreELEC

    1) first attempt I downloaded:

    LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.2.1-noobs.tar

    untarred the file and copyed the directory 'LibreELEC_RPi' to /SETTINGS/os/ directory

    On reboot it show the multiboot menù selection, but selecting LibreELEC start the old 7.0.2 and do not start the update process.

    2) then I tried to copy the same .tar file to /LibreELEChome/.update/

    on reboot it find the new file and start to uncompress, but it say no KERNEL or SYSTEM found,

    and this seems OK as this is the update file for Noobs

    3) then I downloaded:

    LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.2.1.img.gz

    and copy the .gz file to /LibreELEChome/.update/

    on reboot it find the new file and start to uncompress, but it say:

    Uncompress failed, no space left on device.

    So now:

    I have not much space on the 8 GB SD, so I need to know what is the minimum space needed on LibreELEC partitions to successfully update.

    My current SD partition table is:

    Code
    sdb      7,3G
├─sdb1   1,1G fat32    RECOVERY      /media/efa/RECOVERY
├─sdb5   132M ext4     SETTINGS      /media/efa/SETTINGS
├─sdb6    63M fat16    boot          /media/efa/boot
├─sdb7   5,0G ext4     RaspbianRoot  /media/efa/RaspbianRoot
├─sdb8   512M fat16    LIBREELEC     /media/efa/LIBREELEC
└─sdb9   512M ext4     LibreELEChome /media/efa/LibreELEChome

    somewhere I read to size the partitions to 512 MB that is my case, but apparently doesn't work.

    As alternative, how to force the update using Noobs?

    Edited once, last by efa2 (January 4, 2018 at 4:11 PM).

    • Official Post
    Quote from efa2

    1) first attempt I downloaded:

    LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.2.1-noobs.tar

    untarred the file and copyed the directory 'LibreELEC_RPi' to /SETTINGS/os/ directory

    Solution #1: It's admirable and expected, but just let LibreELEC do the untarring and subsequent updating ;)

    Solution #2: My personal view, forget all about NOOBS and install LibreELEC directly and solely on a (separate) SD card. On the 1st boot, the storage partition will be auto-resized to the full extend of the SD card.

    Quote from Klojum

    Solution #1: It's admirable and expected, but just let LibreELEC do the untarring and subsequent updating ;)

    expected as instructions for NOOBS at:

    downloads – LibreELEC

    explicitly say to "unpack it to the /os folder".

    Anyway I just copied 'LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.2.1-noobs.tar' to '/SETTINGS/os/' directory.

    On reboot it show the multiboot menù selection, but selecting LibreELEC start the old 7.0.2 and do not start the update process.

    How to force the update using Noobs?

    for completeness here the available space on the partitions:

    Code
    Partition  Size Avail Use% FS     Label         Mounted on
sdb        7,3G
+-sdb1     1,1G   92M  92% fat32  RECOVERY      /media/efa/RECOVERY
+-sdb2     6,2G            extend
+-sdb5     131M  2,2M  99% ext4   SETTINGS      /media/efa/SETTINGS
+-sdb6      63M   42M  34% fat16  boot          /media/efa/boot
+-sdb7     5,0G  494M  90% ext4   RaspbianRoot  /media/efa/RaspbianRoot
+-sdb8     512M  384M  26% fat16  LIBREELEC     /media/efa/LIBREELEC
+-sdb9     512M  427M   3% ext4   LibreELEChome /media/efa/LibreELEChome

    now I figured out that '/os' directory is present on both NOOBS partitions:

    Code
    /RECOVERY/os   /dev/mmcblk0p1
/SETTINGS/os   /dev/mmcblk0p5

    and install instruction at:

    downloads – LibreELEC

    does not clarify which is to be used.

    Apparently RECOVERY is for OS images to be installed, while SETTINGS contain the already installed OS.

    So I tryed to copy the untarred file 'LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.2.1-noobs.tar' directory 'LibreELEC_RPi' to '/RECOVERY/os/' directory.

    On reboot it show the multiboot menù selection, but selecting LibreELEC start the old 7.0.2 and do not start the update process.

    • Official Post

    Run the 7.0 version, enable SSH, login, then run:

    Code
    cd /storage/.update
wget http://releases.libreelec.tv/LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.2.2.tar
reboot

    You will need approx. 2.5x the size of the update file to be free for an update to work. If you need to clear space, remove old packages from /storage/.kodi/addons/packages and clear /storage/.kodi/temp

    thanks, yesterday I already downloaded 8.2.1 .img.gz file, so I uncompress it, it is sized 575 MB.

    I enlarget a little the LibreELEC home partition:

    Code
    $ lsblk
NAME     SIZE FSTYPE   LABEL         MOUNTPOINT
sdc8   512M vfat     LIBREELEC     /media/efa/LIBREELEC
sdc9   668M ext4     LibreELEChome /media/efa/LibreELEChome

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc8       512M  142M  370M  28% /media/efa/LIBREELEC/dev/sdc9       625M   12M  567M   2% /media/efa/LibreELEChome

    copy the .img file there by my PC, on next reboot it can skip the uncompress stage, and go directly to update kernel and system.

    Worked, thank you for he hint.

    It's a pity that is just released 8.2.2