So, I’ve had a Raspberry Pi 4 sitting brand new in a box for a few years, and decided to install BirdNetPi on it yesterday.

It’s working like a champ, but because BirdNetPi needed a legacy version of Raspian, it’s got old software on it.

Is there any way to update the software (i.e. RealVNC) without updating the OS? There is no built-in software updater, and I seem to very easily break Linux every time I make an attempt to use it. LOL

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

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

    According to the official instructions (https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/wiki/Installation-Guide) is should just be a normal raspbian. Nothing on there says it needs a legacy version, but I may be overlooking something.

    If you installed it some other way or did it long ago then maybe do the setup over again from scratch with the newest raspbian version? (Don’t forget to backup any data you’d want to keep)

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      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.