| Thomas Delrue on 3 Dec 2015 07:27:06 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint 17.3 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/02/2015 04:06 PM, JP Vossen wrote: > I just learned that my assumption that if I was running Linux Mint 17 > that I'd automatically get 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, etc. is wrong. That *is* > how Debian and Redhat work, so to my mind this violates the principle > of least surprise, which Mint also violates by manually editing LSB > files thus causing perpetual file conflicts on updates. But I > digress... > > So you have to do something like this to jump from 17.0 to 17.3: > `for list in $(grep -lR 'qiana' /etc/apt/*list*); do echo sed -i > 's/qiana/rosa/' $list; done` You can also just open the Update Manager and go to the Edit menu and select "Update to 17.[1-2] (codename)". It's pretty much as painless as it can be made. For more information about why Mint doesn't behave like Debian or Redhat (partially because it *isn't* Debian nor RedHat): you can check out http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2725 It boils down to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it; upgrade because *you* want to, not because the Distro-Team has decided you should". I especially like that last part of the sentence: "because *you* want to." That being said: the instructions above are for when you want to use 17.3 /BEFORE/ it has been released. You won't find "Update to 17.3" in the update manager yet as it hasn't been released yet! (but you will find 'Update to .2 or .1' if you're still on an older version) As soon as 17.3 reaches GA, it'll pop up in the Edit menu and you can upgrade to it from there. As for the site being down, that still appears to be the case as of this moment :( -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWYF9CAAoJEKosl9oIs/pO1IEQAJpTKl+gbQ/JIZwXmCTp2L1y WqDuyPmeI59fXjFKhiqmlxxPwxMLxufsQSPlIe9rDiyNmLmA2gZPdks9QQC5xQzP YIwP1hYquWZaDOEwBMyUEm6TjTzp3p1qtK4ADsBSYyDVn8m54s5oKIgeD4e9rR01 COCqaT0Gx0ee+t+h20MAjnFE794r1U+Omu8CVveCV35+JfmCIinDy7k3fLSXIJ8+ AQ2cPDdFoPqDAc0jFUEp1wUllDJ6CLuBWnV5694ROt2VGaH5/HGrXbyHzup7IMmW PK8+LekumCsR17/VDywuDb0a9oKw22tjD1qDQqNeoOcDIc3zDIshbdE65YlwZ+1f y69mYAwGGskS6L5sfe1NTtVk/59Q+pnYCciZDQx1HH/kYUzch7/XOKzooVUmVSx4 RmbwOiHJcSb0itOS18DT9Rnwsb7F5NRb4WSH4fwCDWMQC4qZScawBqO2Lx/z/+VK QIeEyvV4LHsrnK076Haql30S7g7aW6uH2zihWHN/0erBjAF8f/2klQRSMVGC3t8z /vFoslXnUAVn+cgRYE+PKaEiwxyQbLRb2KMfab3dmm1cmdBkNiWV3rNogSd4hng2 rx2CcnlAprSjbNY+thi1+DR4qJfqE0+bxeuVV4yB51bAE3SyaP68wuGJRrjJ4cw/ kC2RFHI26d1+wJZFTz1D =7wjV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug