(ARCHIVED) Ubuntu Xenial Image (BSP Kernel)

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Pfeerick,
>That is only for the GUI/DE environment, isn't it?
Yes, update-manager is a GUI program. Also, upgrade-manager will not find an upgrade unless you have set synaptic to notify you of ALL upgrades. If it is set to only notify you of new LTS upgrades, it won't find yakkety, because it is not LTS (Long Time Support.) Other Ubuntu versions like yakkety are supported for 9 months (?), not 5 years.

I would expect what Pfeerick shows to do the same thing, including upgrading the desktop. Then Ubuntu should at least boot up either way. Since longsleep's repo is compiled for xenial, there is no assurance it will work with yakkety. But since the drivers only depend on the kernel, and the kernel does not change, the drivers really should work. One of the hitches is that update-manager will either disable the repo designations = xenial or update them to yakkety. I am too lazy right now to check how longsleep designates his repo, but if it needs to be set to back to xenial after an upgrade, you can do it manually (change text files in /etc/apt/sources.list or in subdirectory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/)

Yes, that's correct - if you're running a LTS build already, you also need to change the settings to find all updates, not just the next LTS build. And the sources file for the longsleep repo is in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

However, since longsleep has made it clear that he doesn't intend to support yakkety, I wouldn't recommend it (for that reason only). I have simply indicated that it is not only is it possible to upgrade as was asked, but still appears to be stable - in that the system doesn't immediately break. So for the adventurous, it is possible.  However, since we don't have the benefits of the mainline kernel, not all of the improvements from newer versions of ubuntu make it to the pine64 - ie improvements to btrfs, docker, live kernel patching, etc. The reality of the situation is there should be no need to upgrade beyond a LTS build, unless you want some bleeding edge feature, and that is more relevant to a full blown desktop PC install anyway, not the pine64. 

I am curious as to why Pander was so interested in the Yakkety build since it was only released... about 2 weeks ago? As longsleep pointed out, any fixes and software updates will make it through to xenial via the backports repository eventually. Ubuntu LTS builds are released every two years, are more thoroughly tested, and focus on consistency and stability, rather than introducing sudden feature and configuration changes which may arise in the normal releases. So why the rush? We're not talking about a version release with lots of wizz-bang features like an Android major version release...