Switch from openelec to libreelec help

Emerson76 · October 1, 2018 at 11:30 AM

so I am a noob I put oe on a older laptop not knowing it was running kodi Jarvis so now I want to put libreelec on instead I have the USB still partitioned with openelec on it but now my other computer quit so how can I update without having a computer running anything but openelec. At the moment ...help please I have a tablet I could make a new USB sd card stick with libreelec on it will that work or is there a easier way?

**DaVu** · October 1, 2018 at 11:31 AM Official Post

https://libreelec.wiki/how_to/update_libreelec#migration_from_openelec_to_libreelec

Scroll down to the bottom of that wiki. There´s a video I made which should show the process.

**Klojum** · October 1, 2018 at 12:28 PM Official Post

Chances you will need to do a Backup first, freshly install LibreELEC (because of the bigger system partition size), and then restore the backup from OE.