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Edit: The repositories are working fine again. Sorry for the downtime and the inconvenience.

Original message below:

We’re experiencing problems with the server hosting our repositories. As we can’t access it remotely we’ve ordered a manual intervention and we’re currently waiting for this to happen.

In the meantime you can use Linux Mint just as you did before but:

  • mintUpdate will be slower to refresh (it will try to download the latest safety rules from that server, then timeout, then work normally)
  • you will see error messages when updating your APT cache
  • the website http://packages.linuxmint.com will be unavailable
  • you SHOULD NOT upgrade from Mint 6 to Mint 7 (wait until this problem is solved before upgrading, otherwise you’ll miss all the packages maintained by Mint and you’ll only get an update on the Ubuntu package base itself)

Our apologies for the inconvenience. We’re trying to fix this problem as quick as possible.

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Donations & Sponsorships:

Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:

Donors:

  • $147, Andrew K. (Russia)
  • $147, Daniel F. (Germany)
  • $147, Rodney M. (Australia)
  • $110, Aleksandr A. (Russia)
  • $100, 12EasyHosting (USA)
  • $100, Loyal B. (USA)
  • $100, Terry B. (USA)
  • $100, Reject the Herd (USA)
  • $77, Peter T. (Australia)
  • $74, David N. (Czech Republic)
  • $74 (2nd donation), Eric H. (Germany)
  • $74, Marwan B. (Ireland)
  • $73 (5th donation), John Trapp (foggytown – USA)
  • $72, Sean R. (USA)
  • $60 (2nd donation), William R. (USA)
  • $50 (3rd donation), Arron J. (UK)
  • $50 (2nd donation), Barry Patterson (UK) – http://www.redsandstonehill.net
  • $50, Lauro F. (Switzerland)
  • $50, Paul M. (UK)
  • $50, Andrew F. (Australia)
  • $50, S R W. (Malaysia)
  • $50, Krishna M. (USA)
  • $50, Rodney C. (USA)
  • $50, Scott P. (USA)
  • $44 (2nd donation), Uwe S. (Germany)
  • $44, Jonas G. (Sweden)
  • $41 (5th donation), Peter Fitzsimons (UK)
  • $35, Fernando G. (Mexico)
  • $30, Lipton C. (UK)
  • $30, Bernard B. (USA)
  • $30, Juergen G. (Canada)
  • $29 (3rd donation), Marco R. (Italy)
  • $29 (2nd donation), Peter Kasbergen (PiEp – Netherlands) –  http://www.piep.nu/
  • $29, Gilles J. (France)
  • $29, Frans N. (Netherlands)
  • $29, Diego C. (Ireland)
  • $25 (2nd donation), William S. (USA)
  • $25, James M. (USA)
  • $25, Michael F. (USA)
  • $25, Colin C. (Canada)
  • $25, Joel O. (USA)
  • $25, Daniel B. (USA)
  • $25, Joseph K. (USA)
  • $25, Mike E. (USA)
  • $22, Stephen P. (UK)
  • $20 (2nd donation), David S. (UK)
  • $20 (2nd donation), Carl K. (USA)
  • $20, Paul G. (USA)
  • $20, Mike D. (USA)
  • $20, Dale B. (USA)
  • $20, Paul G. (USA)
  • $20, Sam R. (USA)
  • $20, Sebastian C. (Australia)
  • $20, Bill E. (USA)
  • $20, Kenneth S. (USA)
  • $20, Gary V. (USA)
  • $15, Kostas G. (Greece)
  • $15, Ole P. (Denmark)
  • $15, Herman V. (Belgium)
  • $15, Pavel U. (Czech Republic)
  • $15, Jakub G. (Poland)
  • $25, Richard G. (USA)
  • $15, Tim K. (Germany)
  • $15, Urs M. (Switzerland)
  • $15, Daniel W. (Switzerland)
  • $15, Catalin T. (Romania)
  • $15, David B. (Ireland)
  • $15, Andrew A. (USA)
  • $15, Nikos A. (Greece)
  • $15, Pawe P. (Poland)
  • $15, Carl B. (Belgium)
  • $15, Zak McG. (Australia)
  • $10 (9th donation), Phillip Blake (USA)
  • $10 (2nd donation), Justin Peterson (USA) – http://www.jp23.net/
  • $10 (2nd donation), David Morris (DPMorris – USA)
  • $10, Garry K. (USA)
  • $10, Jonathan H. (New Zealand)
  • $10, Clemens N. (USA)
  • $10, Mark C. (UK)
  • $10, Csaba S.  (Hungary)
  • $9, Georgetta B. (Romania)
  • $9, Agostino G. (Italy)
  • $8, Clyde N. (USA)
  • $7, Monika P. (Estonia)
  • $7, Lennart B. (Germany)
  • $5, Jose P. (USA)
  • $5, Marijan D. (Croatia)
  • $5, Khalil S. (USA)
  • $2, Bruno L. (Brazil)
  • $1, Zekeriya t K. (Turkey)
  • $1, Julie S. (USA)

    Sponsors:

    Money raised in May:

    * Donations: $3135
    * Sponsors: $396

    http://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php
    http://www.linuxmint.com/sponsors.php

    User Stats:

    Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:

    • Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 4%
    • Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 11%
    • Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 37%
    • Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 48%

    Web Stats:

    • Visits: 1,378,407 (+12.45%)
    • Pageviews: 2,689,945 (+15.06%)
    • Page impressions: 1,425,021
    • Search queries: 2,564,610
    • Forum users: 16650
    • Forum posts: 146441

    Rankings:

    • Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1408 (3rd)
    • Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.3% (2nd)
    • Alexa (website ranking): 31,388th

    Events:

    Summary:

    • We’ve received a fantastic amount of support from the community last month. Donations have never been so high. 91 people donated money in May for a total of $3135. That’s about 3 times the average we normally get.
    • All indicators show a boom in the size of our user base.
    • Among Distrowatch visitors, Linux Mint (4.3%) has twice as many users as Mandriva (2.1%) and Fedora (1.8%) and 3 times as many as OpenSuse (1.4%).
    • The Overall income is up 33%, and May 2009 was the best month ever since the start of the distribution.

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    Warnings:

    • This upgrade path is for the Main Edition only, from a Mint 6 Felicia to a Mint 7 Gloria system.
    • There is no guarantee that it will work for you. In fact this is quite a risky process. If you’re experienced and if you know how to troubleshoot and solve common Linux problems (in particular X11, kernel modules and APT problems) then you’re probably OK. If you’re a novice user we recommend you perform a fresh installation of Linux Mint 7 instead.
    • You should make backups of all your data before upgrading.

    Upgrading graphically (easier):

    • Open a terminal and type the following commands: “apt update” and “apt install mintupgrader-felicia-main”
    • Open mintMenu and run “Menu->Administration->Upgrade to Linux Mint 7”
    • Follow the instructions. Choose the default options. Ignore errors (in particular GPG and gtk2-engines-aurora errors).

    Upgrading from the command line (faster, safer):

    Open a terminal and type the following commands:

    • gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list (Change all occurrences of “felicia” to “gloria”, and all occurences of “intrepid” to “jaunty” then save the file and close the editor)
    • apt update
    • apt remove mintassistant
    • apt install linuxmint-keyring
    • apt update
    • apt install mint-info-main (choose “Y” or “I” to install the package maintainer’s version)
    • apt install mint-meta-main(choose “Y” or “I” to install the package maintainer’s version)

    In the terminal, repeat the following commands until both show no upgrades available:

    • apt upgrade
    • apt dist-upgrade

    Then type the following commands:

    • apt install mint-meta-main
    • sudo rm -rf /boot/gfxmenu/default.message
    • sudo ln -s /boot/gfxmenu/linuxmint.message /boot/gfxmenu/default.message

    Finally, open “Login Window” from the menu, click on the “Local” tab and choose the Arc-Wise theme. (If after rebooting you get an error about the theme at the login prompt, repeat this step.)

    To get GDM to play the default Linux Mint sound, open “Login Window”, click on the “Accessibility” tab, and set the sound for “Login screen ready” to “/usr/share/sounds/linuxmint-gdm.wav”.