Vero 4k won't upgrade from 17.6 to 19 (or anything else) - hotfix applied

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i’m trying to update to the latest, I’ve applied the hotfix from the v19 FAQ page, but the update still shows it’s up to date:

osmc@kodi4k:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Ign:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Hit:4 http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt stretch InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

osmc@kodi4k:~$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  armv7-libcrossguid-osmc bluez libapt-inst1.5 libbind9-90 libdbus-1-dev libdns100 libdpkg-perl libgif4
  libgnutls-deb0-28 libhogweed2 libicu52 libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg90 liblwres90 libmicrohttpd10 libmysqlclient18
  libnettle4 libntdb1 libplist2 libpng12-0 libpsl0 libssl1.0.0 libwebp5 libwebpdemux1 libwebpmux1 libxtables10
  pkg-config python-dbus-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

same thing happens when trying to update in the UI. it just runs and says that it’s already up to date.

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You can’t upgrade an install that old at this point and you would need to perform a full reinstall in order to update it to the current release. You probably can make a backup and restore to the clean install for most of Kodi’s settings but guisetting.xml might be an issue. Sources and the database should restore okay.