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[LUG] Ignoring Linux Mint Upgrade Advice

 

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

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