07-18-2017, 07:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-19-2017, 06:09 PM by MarkHaysHarris777.)
stanley9000, not sure why that wasn't working for you, but at least you tried 
You will be unable to use the graphical "Software Updater" build in to ubuntu due to a bug in it which requires a minimum amount of free space in the /boot partition, which was only recently fixed by resizing that partition. Kernel updates are not handled via apt yet, and multiple versions, which is why that was not doing anything. Because of that the Software Updater glitch, you will need to run the command line update commands you probably found... ie. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
As far as system updates, I would *not* recommend updating from 16.04. Yes, it will mostly work, but is not supported, and there are some known issues already with going to 17.04. 16.04 was chosen as the version to support because it is a LTS (Long Term Support) version, and will continue to get security and maintenance updates until April 2019.
To get other upgrades, you can run some system scripts, but if you are still running the 'stock' image on your pinebook, we need to get it off that, and onto one of ayufan's builds, and the best way to do that is to run the pine64 installer on a normal desktop computer, download a pinebook image, put it on a microSD card, and then boot your pinebook from that. You can then use the pine64_install_to_emmc.sh script to download the latest version of ayufan's pinebook image and install it to your pinebooks onboard emmc storage.
It is certainly possible to prepare that install image on the pinebook itself, but it would be much better if we can talk it through on IRC (you can talk to me via PM there so you don't get confused by all the other stuff that is going on if you want... just /msg pfeerick Hi pfeerick me or something and I'll respond when I see the message).
Essentially the idea would be to check what device your SD card is being mounted as (using fdisk -l), and then using a command similar to this to download and write the latest pinebook release image to your microSD card:
curl -L hhttps://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-build/releases/download/0.6.2/xenial-mate-pinebook-bspkernel-0.6.2-77.img.xz | unxz -c > /dev/mmcblk0
You will be unable to use the graphical "Software Updater" build in to ubuntu due to a bug in it which requires a minimum amount of free space in the /boot partition, which was only recently fixed by resizing that partition. Kernel updates are not handled via apt yet, and multiple versions, which is why that was not doing anything. Because of that the Software Updater glitch, you will need to run the command line update commands you probably found... ie. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
As far as system updates, I would *not* recommend updating from 16.04. Yes, it will mostly work, but is not supported, and there are some known issues already with going to 17.04. 16.04 was chosen as the version to support because it is a LTS (Long Term Support) version, and will continue to get security and maintenance updates until April 2019.
To get other upgrades, you can run some system scripts, but if you are still running the 'stock' image on your pinebook, we need to get it off that, and onto one of ayufan's builds, and the best way to do that is to run the pine64 installer on a normal desktop computer, download a pinebook image, put it on a microSD card, and then boot your pinebook from that. You can then use the pine64_install_to_emmc.sh script to download the latest version of ayufan's pinebook image and install it to your pinebooks onboard emmc storage.
It is certainly possible to prepare that install image on the pinebook itself, but it would be much better if we can talk it through on IRC (you can talk to me via PM there so you don't get confused by all the other stuff that is going on if you want... just /msg pfeerick Hi pfeerick me or something and I'll respond when I see the message).
Essentially the idea would be to check what device your SD card is being mounted as (using fdisk -l), and then using a command similar to this to download and write the latest pinebook release image to your microSD card:
curl -L hhttps://github.com/ayufan-pine64/linux-build/releases/download/0.6.2/xenial-mate-pinebook-bspkernel-0.6.2-77.img.xz | unxz -c > /dev/mmcblk0
