Pi Desktop : how to upgrade to new raspbian (buster)

Well, I forgot to unsinstall the pidesktop first, so I resolved the issue simply like this :

1. Uninstall  first :
   sudo dpkg -r pidestop-base
2. Install again and the job is done:
   sudo dpkg -i pidestop-base-1.1.0.deb

pcardona  EXCELLENT!  Great job.  Also, welcome to the Element14 community.

I'm no doubt not seeing the big picture. I have been frustrated in the past aligning with themed O/S to have the support team fracture. I tend to shy away from flavours that are not mainstream.

So if you had one of these kits, I assume there is nothing that  prevents you from grabbing a Raspbian buster image from the .org repository and after completing an install adding the tweaks for the RTC and shutdown circuit?

colporteur  You are spot on!  One could add these themselves or even create a script to do the install.  I like the idea of adding them myself because (to me) that's part of the magic of the Pi.  I'm not just adding application programs.  I'm adding functionality.  Okay, they might be the same thing, but not in my mind.

Hi Mike,

I seems that the reboot process has changed between the Stretch and the Buster : the fact is that the pi-desktop package provided no more supports this functionnality. As I can understand, after a try to boot again, the system is shutting down, which is not the expected behaviour. Well, we do not need this functionnality all the time, but I like to understand why things stop to work.

You said You wrote your own scripts to do this. Could You share your knowledge to help us to understand this process within Buster and the pi-desktop ?

pcardona Forgive me for being unclear.  I have not written a script.  There are folks in the Community that are smart enough to do this.  I am not one of them.

I prefer to install the features one at a time.  I keep a notebook of the programs I like to add but - in truth - each SD card gets regularly reformatted and reflashed.  Only one of mi Pi's has a dedicated purpose.  It runs an MMDVM hotspot.  All of the others are subject to being reset to a fresh install of Raspbian.

Bonjour,

J'étais dans la même situation mais après de longues recherches, j'ai trouvé une solution que je viens d'installer et qui semble fonctionner.

L'éditeur Embest, avait sur son site un lien vers un github comportant un fichier pidesktop-base.deb version 1.1.7

https://www.embest-tech.com/down.aspx?key=pi%20desktop

https://github.com/hoopsurfer/pidesktop

Voilà, en espérant que cela pourra vous aider

Cordialement

Patrick C.

I have RaspPi 3b+ / OS: Debian 10 Buster / the Pi Desktop-Kit dev-14354 and pidesktop-base 1.1.7 from here: https://github.com/hoopsurfer/pidesktop . Install is all good, but i haven't access to hwclock (Message: no usage hwclock found). why?