Re: [PLUG] Linux Mint 17.3

[Thomas Delrue <delrue.thomas@gmail.com>]

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And speaking of which, look what just popped up after
mint-upgrade-info was apt-get upgraded to 1.0.4 (see attached: mint
17.3.png)

On 12/03/2015 10:26 AM, Thomas Delrue wrote:
> 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 :(
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