I have done both upgrades, but not as "upgrades" per se. My experience is that it is least troublesome to backup your data (twice), backup /etc, note any customizations, wipe the HDD, and reinstall from scratch. Both Mint 18 and 19 run fine on my desktops afterwards. Unless you have TBs of data this will probably be the least troublesome route.
I run the following commands before backing up /home and /etc: dpkg --get-selections > /home/wgking/mint/Package.list apt-key exportall > /home/wgking/mint/Repo.keys crontab -u wgking -l > /home/wgking/mint/crontab.backup After restoring data you can check the package list of the new version against the old package list and reinstall any that you still want. This works well if you do not do any installs from source. You will have to manually reinstall repos and cron scripts. Good luck! Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "caziz" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected] [email protected]" <[email protected]>, "public Calgary UNIX talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 10:04:18 AM Subject: [CalgaryUNIX] update to current Mint LTS Hi Guys, Mint 17.3 Rosa LTS timed out in April. I want to upgrade to Mint 18 (good to 2021) and then Mint 19 (good to 2023). Anybody have experience or suggestions? I've previously done this with Ubuntu and few problems. Ubuntu proved an update script to dumb it up. This will be my first Mint major version upgrade. Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ CalgaryUNIX mailing list [email protected] http://www.cuug.ab.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/calgaryunix _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
