Upgrading libreelec

  • A friend of mine has a raspberry pi 3 with libreelec and it works, but it's on 12.0.2, so perhaps it's about time to upgrade. The docs say "download this tar ball and copy it to this share", fine, but where is the tar ball? The article at https://wiki.libreelec.tv/support/update tells me "Updating LibreELEC is (mostly) simple and can be done automatically, manually from inside the Kodi GUI via the LibreELEC Settings add-on, by downloading an update file from our website and copying the file to a local Samba share, or by running a command from the SSH console.", which is fine, except that it's linking to https://libreelec.tv/downloads/, where no such file can be found.

    Any ideas?

    PS: The raspberry pi 3 really is 64bit, but this software is 32bit. Not a problem, though, just a thing.

  • RPi3 hardware is 64-bit capable but media drivers (inherited from RPi1/2) are optimised for arm and on the advice of RPi devs we continue to ship RPi3 as an arm image. RPi4/5 run different drivers that are written and optimised for aarch64 or where the small performance difference doesn't hurt.

    If you disable auto update mode (which only auto-updates minor updates) in the GUI and then manually choose to update to LE12.2, the file downloaded and used for the update is the .tar file. If you download from the website the .img.gz file can be used.