Update pack 3 lmde

Upgrade successful! Thanks everyone for the suggestions. The issues I had that aborted the upgrade were the following: — System retained the identification as mate, although I had switched back to cinnamon — Legacy nvidia drivers had to be thoroughly removed before beginning the upgrade — Plymouth-set-default-theme not found error.

I had to install plymouth before beginning the upgrade. Neither alternative allowed X to start on reboot. I see… in Debian Jessie, nvidia In Debian Stretch, nvidia These packages from both releases have the same names, so apt tried to upgrade them, and looks like there was some problem with that….

I installed from scratch and all right … except that.. I intend to connect to the network via wifi.. I have the same problem with the LMDE 3 install disk. I can connect using Mint What is the back-end command s being used for step D8 in the referenced tutorial?

These should not be removed, but downgraded. Section D7 — Packages which are installed on your computer but do not exist in the repositories. All of these should be safe to remove.

Section D8. Mountall does not exist in Debian Stretch. Neither does gcc Clem: Thanks for the thorough reply. So removal must be forced via another way. Successful upgrade from LMDE2. This suggestion from Clem did not work, at first, for me. After removing mint-info-debian-mate, I would get errors installing mint-info-debian-cinnamon:. Trying to install mint-user-guide-cinnamon gave and error about conflicting with mint-user-guide-mate. Could someone tell me if it means that the upgrade is not possible and I have to go for a fresh installation?

Your email address will not be published. It is now possible to upgrade LMDE 3 to version 4. You can ask for help in the forums. Previous Previous post: Monthly News — February This is great, thanks to all who are working on this safety net!

Hi Tom, Can you check your version of mintupgrade? I assume that means I have to do a fresh install? Kernel 5. Hi mockturtl. Hi Emile, Use the default repositories, refresh your cache.

With the recent release of Debian 11 Bullseye,is there a timetable for the next upgrade? They will just manage to do it in with their own goals in mind—goals that appear to very similar to what I want out of a PC.

And to be completely fair, Mint has never been perfect. But I have explored many other distros, and the grass is never greener than it is with Mint Main edition. Sure, there are very specific things that I like better in another distro, but they are few and not worth the change.

In other words, there is life after Linux, and whatever distro leaves me with the absolute greatest amount of time to live life is the distro for me. Mint 11 was shaky in my experience. If this means that future main editions are heading down the path of regression, then Mint 9 it is, until LMDE gets where I need it to be. If Clem can get LMDE to the point where it is as smooth, polished and reliable as the main edition…then i think you are correct…i have faith in Clem….

Probably, and that may explain the biggest difference right now. I simply do not know. But Ubuntu may actually become an independent developer one day—they are almost there in a lot of respects.

Time, and how far Clem wants to go are the only questions in my opinion. In fact, technically speaking, LMDE is significantly more stable than the main edition. There are probably many times that you would have been better off if Windows XP would have broken right away rather than wait 2 years and take a total crap.

Regrettably, even some Linux distros—while not nearly as bad as Windows—lean in that direction. The biggest issue is that the software sources currently available for LMDE to tap into are different than the Ubuntu resources.

Clem has been very diligent about informing users of what to do when they experience breakages. It almost always involves changing the software sources list. In my opinion, once these issues get ironed out, then we will see LMDE make huge strides towards even besting the current main edition.

But that aside, right now I agree with your thoughts. Thank you for the excellent feedback on my comments, PB Yep…that is what i will be doing also….

Also, Clem is just 1 person.. Ubuntu probably has tons of paid employee working full time on their distros…. Craig10x: I agree with your explanation. For this reason exactly is why I proposed that there will be some time involved if the Mint team was to actually be able to develop the kind of control that Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS have on their distro.

I personally have not used it at all. Who knows? Again, this will all take time. But I have to emphasize the thought in an earlier post. If Mint continues moving forward at whatever pace their resources allow, they will one day become independent from my perspective. Will it be a year from now, or 5 years or more? But it is the natural result of progress.

Well, if you actually test ArchLinux as a VirtualBox machine, you would be surprised. In my mind, it would be easier to be based on ArchLinux than Debian-Unstable as Debian themselves call it. I am yet to see why these Debian porting efforts are worth than basing the whole system on ArchLinux. PACMAN itself is very good at command line, I am not sure if it is actually better than yum or apt-get on maintenances removal of packages, orphan files and directories. It runs very well for me. I should say that this is a really good release.

I have tested the 3. Using the kernel the synchronisation between sound and picture is achieved only when file loading is finished. Using the pae-kernel gives good synchronisation even during the file-loading. My conclusion is that the pae is more efficient, even on that simple computer. It is other, higher level. For the next update pack please give us a newer version of firefox as we are lagging quite some way behind now!

When you are dealing directly with debian as opposed to ubuntu as a base you are subject to the sometimes slower aspect of getting new versions of things, Liam Dawe…that has nothing to do with Clem…. Both are Debian based. PCLinux is very slow in updating many software that everyone knows. Even they have updated Firefox to version 7. We just surf. Bobby: Just wanted to mention that PcLinuxOs actually is not Debian Based it is Red Hat Based notice it uses rmp packages and not deb packages…that is the reason why ….

It was originally kind of a spin off of mandriva but Texstar made it into his own distro, he and his volunteers totally control and work on all the packages you get and that is why you get very quick updates on most software on there….

PCinux is now an independent distribution. Yes, it uses the. However, many distributions use. They are simply using a package management sytem that Redhat developed. Mandriva also uses. But PClinux has since forked into an independent distro….. Yes, many people have discussed the negatives about Ubuntu and Ubuntu based systems.

And from an intellectual point of view, I fully understand those things. And yes, I would like to part ways for many of those reasons. But when I push the power button, the PC turns on.

I take care of my business which generally involves a little bit of a whole lot of different things. I have yet to experience one breakage with updates. They just work for me. Any problem that I have every encountered on the Ubuntu system is mostly related to the Linux Kernel.

From what I understand, that has nothing to do with Ubuntu or any other distro for that matter. Last edited by Anonymous on Wed Sep 28, pm, edited 1 time in total. Reason: Merged topic. Update Information Post by nobby » Wed Sep 28, pm I've updated my sources list per the instructions, updated the update manager, and now there's updates available. Should the Current Pack Available be showing as 3?

Update Information Post by kmb42vt » Wed Sep 28, pm Went through the update to Update Pack 3 with only a few problems Note: the same problems occurred earlier with the same update in my "test" LMDE pointed towards the "incoming" repos : 1. When booting with the new Linux 3. Choice, it is the quintessential Linux delusion, simultaneously the source of it's greatest strength, and it's greatest weakness. I simply deleted the two sources lines we are no longer using, and copied and pasted in the 2 new ones and "saved" and exited Then i checked my software sources on the update manager, and there was the new list!

I then installed the update to mint updater new version and it did that and the updates came up and ready to install Just have one more question before i do the updates, Clem mentioned regarding the kernel 3.

One is quite important.. Just wanted to get that clear before starting the updates Update Information Post by wayne » Wed Sep 28, pm craig10x wrote: One is quite important.. Update Information Post by zerozero » Wed Sep 28, pm craig, just to double check, are you absolutely sure that your grub is on sda1? Update Information Post by ausminter » Wed Sep 28, pm Does this update default to gnome 3 and do I get the option to use my current version of gnome?

Update Information Post by craig10x » Thu Sep 29, am zerozero wrote: craig, just to double check, are you absolutely sure that your grub is on sda1? Update Information Post by zerozero » Thu Sep 29, am craig, can't go wrong that way i think; ausminter, there's no UI change in this UP, the desktop you were using yesterday will be the same tomorrow. Update Information Post by craig10x » Thu Sep 29, am thanks zerozero