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LINUX: It's official - Mint 17 "Qiana" released to distribution

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Deozaan:
Is there any way to upgrade an older installation to the latest version? I have a working Mint 15 install. Instead of starting it all over from scratch, it would be nice if I could tell it to upgrade itself. I went into the Update Manager and updated everything, but it still says it is running Mint 15.

40hz:
Is there any way to upgrade an older installation to the latest version? I have a working Mint 15 install. Instead of starting it all over from scratch, it would be nice if I could tell it to upgrade itself. I went into the Update Manager and updated everything, but it still says it is running Mint 15.
-Deozaan (June 30, 2014, 04:21 PM)
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You can...but it's not recommended. Especially if you have a bunch of PPAs added to your repositories. Many of those are version specific so you'd need to remove and install the correct ones for the version of Ubu underneath Mint.

And even though Ubuntu has a do-release-upgrade command, you'll need to manually update your software sources list first for it to work.

I've done upgrades that way (in the past) and I learned they made for far more work than they saved. About the only time I've found Debian's apt-get dist-upgrade or Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade really useful was for upgrading servers. Desktops just have too much "other stuff" loaded for either upgrade command to work reliably.

Recommendation: Don't. Just do a clean install. You'll save more time in the long run.

 8) :Thmbsup:

Deozaan:
A totally clean install? Or something fancy like have a system partition and a data partition and only wipe the system partition and install the OS there, keeping my user/data partition from before?

And while I've got you on the line, how about fixing the name of Mint 17 to "Qiana" in the OP's title? :D

Sorry, it was bothering me. :-[

But not as much as when the guy in that review video you linked pronounced it like "quinoa" (keen-wah).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW_BOkrcjEY#t=1080

40hz:
A totally clean install? Or something fancy like have a system partition and a data partition and only wipe the system partition and install the OS there, keeping my user/data partition from before?-Deozaan (June 30, 2014, 06:46 PM)
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I'd make a copy of /home just in case, but the current partition scheme should otherwise be fine.

And while I've got you on the line, how about fixing the name of Mint 17 to "Qiana" in the OP's title? :D


Sorry, it was bothering me. :-[
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Well...we can't have that now can we?

Ok. It's done. (Not my fault they can't spell.)

And not that it will make much difference because it only fixes it in the OP.

Note: the Mint release names are supposed (according to the Mint folks) to be the names of women picked from the works of William Shakespeare.

Just for the record: of the 1,224 character names found in Shakespeare, "Qiana" is not one of them.



Have you written Clement Lefebvre about that yet?

Deozaan:
A totally clean install? Or something fancy like have a system partition and a data partition and only wipe the system partition and install the OS there, keeping my user/data partition from before?-Deozaan (June 30, 2014, 06:46 PM)
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I'd make a copy of /home just in case, but the current partition scheme should otherwise be fine.
-40hz (June 30, 2014, 10:28 PM)
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Thanks. I'll see what happens. (c:

And while I've got you on the line, how about fixing the name of Mint 17 to "Qiana" in the OP's title? :D
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Ok. It's done. (Not my fault they can't spell.)

And not that it will make much difference because it only fixes it in the OP.-40hz (June 30, 2014, 10:28 PM)
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Now all further replies to this thread will have the correct spelling.  8)

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