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On 02/06/14 23:19, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > I upgraded Mint 15 to 16 using apt-get following bad apple's excellent > tutorial, and now I'd like to do the same from 16-17. I found a how-to > online which basically says to edit the sources and replace petra with > qiana and saucy with trusty. > > Am I correct in thinking these lines (taken from bad apple's tutorial > and modified as I /think/ the online How-to means) do exactly that? > > 2: Edit apt sources > > cd /etc/apt > sed -i 's/petra/qiana/g' sources.list > sed -i 's/saucy/trusty/g' sources.list > > 3: If you have extra repos here (PPAs, etc) also edit them > > ls sources.list.d/ > sed -i 's/petra/qiana/g' sources.list.d/*.list > sed -i 's/saucy/trusty/g' sources.list.d/*.list > > If I am right I'll just use bad apple's tutorial again with these > modified lines. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > That's exactly right chief - just change the release names as appropriate in sources.list and anything under sources.list.d/ also: I think Mint has references to it's parent Ubuntu distro in there as well, so you'd probably also want to check for any instances of saucy that need to be changed to trusty. I guess that must mean Mint 17 has just been released then, I didn't realise. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq