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Cant upgrade from mint 18 to newer

I had to upgrade my parent's pc which was running a linux mint 17.3. It was no problem to upgrade 18, but then mintupdate app did the sam again and again, asked to install 18, then checked some things, all 'already the newest", done. I did this around 5 times, no option for 19 upgrade appeared, not even with apt dist-upgrade, which showed nothing to upgrade. For all packages apt writes nothing to upgrade. For apt install mintupdate it writes no newer relase, so ive purged it, then tried to reinstall, and writes mintupgrade not found, using the same command line that i used on 17 before the upgrade. Now how can i continue upgrading to newer mint?

7 comments

peterg75

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My suggestion is to always put /home on its own partition and do a fresh install for every major version upgrade. If /home is its own partition it makes it super easy to format / for a fresh install. Avoids all of lib hell.

OverfedRaccoon

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Are you on 18.3? It will only allow upgrade from 18.3. I'm looking into it. There's no direct path to 20 or 21 from 18, but from what I can see, you should be able to get to 19, then 20 once there, and on to 21 (like you're attempting to do).

"[...] you can also upgrade 18.x to 19, which is supported until 2023. However, you need to first upgrade to 18.3 using the official instructions before upgrading to 19."

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3462

4rano

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You will have to make a fresh install.

PaulDevonUK

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If you had bothered to search the Internet you would probably have found something like this.

TL;DNR Too old for an in-place upgrade. Fresh install needed.

disconnectikacio

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Ive bothered to search, but i did not find any useful thing which includes that useless BS you linked...

xkforce

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That tone wasnt necessary.

PaulDevonUK

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Really?

How many simple questions do you see that a quick search would have solved?

Why be lazy and expect everyone else do the simple legwork for you?