This recipe shows how to upgrade the Raspberry Pi 2 from the jessie
version of the Raspbian Linux distribution to the stretch
version.
Currently, there are three versions of the Raspbian operating system distribution that are available for the Raspberry Pi 2, namely wheezy
, jessie
, and stretch
. The source of these distributions is located at http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian.
The wheezy
distribution is based on Debian 7, jessie
is based on Debian 8, and stretch
is based on Debian 9. The current stable
version is jessie
. The default wheezy
version is considered to be the oldstable
release. The next planned release, testing
, is stretch
.
Tip
If you are planning on upgrading an operating system from one version to another, which includes upgrading from jessie
to stretch
, you should do so before installing another software package, as this will greatly simplify the overall upgrade.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation provides default images...