Use these two oneliners to replace all “quantal” with “raring” and “nadia” with “olivia”, in order to get the needed repos.
$ sudo sed -i 's/quantal/raring/' /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo sed -i 's/nadia/olivia/' /etc/apt/sources.listFully update the system
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade After this happens, your apt manager will ask you if you want to new configuration files, or you prefer to keep the old ones. I usually type Y, to accept the new files. The old ones will be in stored in the same directory as the new ones, but with the appendix .dpkg-old, so if you are not pleased with the new settings, you can restore your old ones.
Upgrade:
$ sudo apt-get upgradeReboot:
$ sudo shutdown -r nowThis is it. Enjoy.
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Also this: sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
should be: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
or: sudo ( apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade )
/etc/mdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup…
localuser:xyz being added to access control list
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service
Is this install salvageable? or should I just wait for the real thing.
And also, backup files before starting on this.
“Use this two oneliners to replace all ‘precise’ with ‘quantal’ and ‘maya’ with ‘nadia’, in order to get the needed repos.”
I would revise it, if all agree, as follows:
“Use these two oneliners to replace all ‘quantal’ with ‘raring’ and ‘nadia’ with ‘olivia,’ in order to get the needed repos.”
Which is to say (1) “this”–>”these”; (2) version names matching those in the oneliners; and (3) commas inside quotemarks (this last mostly because I’m an editor and can’t help myself
I had to issue the following commands to update the sources, after `cd`ing to the above directory:
$ for f in `ls -1 *.list`; do sudo sed -i ‘s/quantal/raring/’ $f; done;
$ for f in `ls -1 *.list`; do sudo sed -i ‘s/nadia/olivia/’ $f; done;
Word of warning: Switch off your power saving options before you begin. My screen went to sleep during the updates and couldn’t present the login screen again (presumably a dependency from auth -> login screen -> new mdm or somesuch) and whilst I could watch the dpkg processes spawning and closing from tty1, the very next time I was prompted whether to accept the package maintainers config file, I was hosed since I couldn’t connect to that session to answer the question. A “sudo reboot”, followed by “sudo dpkg –configure -a” saved me, but it was a bum-squeaky few minutes.
I’d dd’d off the root partition before I began, so I had a safety net, and I’d advise everyone else to make sure that they’ve got some sort of backup to return to before they embark on the “advanced” route of upgrading.
Thank you for a simple and effective way to Upgrade !!
Thank you !
Sent from Linux Mint Olivia
This is what makes the Linux Community so great, people always willing to help.
Still a little put off by the mention of Ubuntu everywhere, though. I installed LM 15 in VirtualBox and I’m finding a few differences. In the in-place upgrade I have two ‘System Settings’ for example, and under ‘System Info’ the distribution is ‘Ubuntu 13.04.’ They seem to work the same, but it’s a little worrisome. Anyone else seeing this?
Slante, Piet.
The process took a little more than an hour – not much different than upgrading other Ubuntu distros via update manager.
Thanks a lot!
Anyone else who has used this process seeing this? And have I gone from Mint 14 to 15 or from Mint 14 to Ubuntu?
And after, if you have Linux Mint XFCE, and when trying to connect onto graphical session, if you’ve the message ‘Failed to load session “Ubuntu” !’.
CTRL + ALT + F1 to run in session mode terminal. Tape your ID and pass and after tape :
echo xfce4-session > ~/.xsession
And after, CTRL + ALT + F8 to retry an attempt to connect graphical session!
2. Do NOT do it during working hours, nothing should go wrong, but it might, and when it does it could take some time to return to normal.
3. use the screen tool to perform the upgrade, so if something happens and you lose access to the GUI, you can always access the process from one of the terminals (Alt+Ctrl+F[1-7]).
4. Do NOT lock your screen during the upgrade, you might not be able to return.