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On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:20:46 +0000, George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That Mr Meowski, I thought, he often seems to know what he's talking > about, and I need to upgrade to Mint 16 so I'll give it a go. What can > go wrong if I follow the instructions, eh? > > Run through number 1 did nothing at all, but that was because I'd > forgotten that my install was Mint 14. Round 1 to Mr Meowski. > > I thought I'd better upgrade one version at a time so for run through > number 2 I adjusted the sed lines to Nadia/olivia and quantal/raring and > off we went. The upgrade took about 1.5 hours, down to broadband speed > I suppose, and went off without a hitch. Everything seems to be working. > Round 2 to Mr Meowski. > > Run through number 3 was the final upgrade to Mint 16. Again about 1.5 > hours and again seemed to work OK. But when I rebooted my Mate desktop > setup had disappeared and it booted into a temporary Gnome setup. But it > did boot to a desktop and it was trivial to re-install Mate and > everything else seems to be working OK. So, I have to also concede round > 3 to Mr Meowski. A resounding win for the Bad Apple. > > I think this could safely go into the LUG how-to's with maybe a note on > what to put in the sed lines. (It also intrigued me enough to go and > find out what the sed lines did). > > Thank you Mr Meowski. > > George Interesting, I was always under the impression that upgrading from one Mint release to another (other than the Debian edition) was a bad idea, but that was on an early version so maybe things have changed. There's a guide on the Mint web site here which explains the whole process... http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2 Personally, 3 odd hours to upgrade seems like a lot of time tbh. While I'm now running Mint Debian edition (which has rolling upgrades, but some risk of breakage) I keep my data on a separate home partition, that way I can blat root, install a fresh copy of Mint and away I go settings intact (okay, I do take a backup of any changes I've made in /etc and possibly keep a note of what extra packages I've installed). Generally an upgrade like this takes about half an hour from a USB stick (maybe sometimes an hour if my broadband is running slowly). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq