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Upgrading to Raspbian Stretch and Buster

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wvhn edited this page Dec 20, 2019 · 6 revisions

An upgrade from Jessie directly to Buster is not possible. You need to take the route via Stretch.

To upgrade the system from Jessie to Stretch is relatively easy. Use the procedure described here.

To run SmarthomeNG you need to install some Python modules:

sudo su
easy_install3 PIP
pip install PSUTIL
pip install PYAML
pip instalL CHERRYPY
pip install JINJA2
pip install RUAMEL.YAML
pip install PYTHON_DATEUTIL

SmarthomeNG Ver 1.5.1 starts normally after this procedure. Probably you need to import the keys for apt again if the system does not run any further update throwing the NOPUBKEY error. Make sure the rights are set correctly and update the keys:

cd /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d
sudo chown _apt multistrap.gpg
sudo chown _apt trustdb.gpg
sudo apt-key net-update

If you still get the NOPUBKEY error import the missing key stated in the error message (replace the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with the missing key:

sudo gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
gpg -a --export XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | sudo apt-key add -

Updating from Stretch to Buster

Use e.g. this procedure to update to Buster: Link

The procedure throws errors for lighttpd and the 1-Wire (ow) package. The lighttpd error is caused by changes in the openssl usage between Stretch and Buster. Instead of fixing this I installed Apache2 which keeps the system more on track towards the "official" SmarthomeNG / smartVISU installation.

Re-install the ow package with

sudo dpkg configure owserver
sudo dpkg configure owhttpd
sudo dpkg configure owftpd 
sudo dpkg configure owfs

Note that there seem to be issues with ow under Buster. See this post for details (German).

Install additional packages needed for SmarthomeNG

 sudo apt-get install libawl-php php-curl php php-json php-xml php-mbstring
 sudo apt-get install python3-pip
 sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

and install the Python modules from the section above again.

To set up SmarthomeNG (and Apache2 for smartVISU) and to update to SmarthomeNG V1.6 use this documentation.

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