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Deckweiss@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t know why your OS can not be updated.

According to the official instructions (github.com/mcguirepr89/…/Installation-Guide) is should just be a normal raspbian.

Maybe do the setup again from scratch with the newest raspbian version?

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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Nothing on there says it needs a legacy version, but I may be overlooking something.

It took several attempts (with failures) to get it installed on the latest Raspian version, then after some digging I saw that the requirements said to use “An SD Card with the 64-bit version of RaspiOS installed (please use Bullseye)”.

With Bullseye installed, BirdNetPi works just fine, but it is old and comes with old software.

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- Deckweiss@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ah makes sense. Still there should be no issue with doing stuff the normal way.
  
  apt update doesn’t update your OS to a whole new version.
  
  The command for an OS update is some5hing like “do-release-upgrade” (but I forgot the exact name since I havent used debian for years)
  
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  - 4am@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Only on Ubuntu based distros AFAIK but sudo do-release-upgrade is the correct command
    
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- TechAdmin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Create a backup image from the working SD card. Write that backup image to a spare SD card and verify it works. Then try to do ‘apt update’ and see if anything breaks. If it breaks you got a spare SD card ready to go :)
  
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