How to upgrade to Linux Mint 20

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If you’ve been waiting for this I’d like to thank you for your patience.

It is now possible to upgrade the 64-bit version of Linux Mint 19.3 to version 20.

The upgrade instructions are available at: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-20.html

Take your time

Read all the instructions and take the time to understand them, ask for help if you’re stuck.

The instructions will ask you to be up to date and to prepare system snapshots. Don’t rush into upgrading and do not take shortcuts.

Don’t panic

If you’re stuck or wondering about something don’t hesitate to ask for help:

  • You can post here in the comments section.
  • You can ask for help in the forums.
  • You can connect to the IRC (from within Linux Mint, launch Menu->Internet->Hexchat). If you’re new to IRC, please read this tutorial.

1,133 comments

  1. All well and good, but “apt install mintupgrade” says:
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    E: Unable to locate package mintupgrade
    What now?

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    1. I also have the same problem.
      apt install mintupgrade => “E: Unable to locate package mintupgrade”

    2. If you’re using a mirror it’s possible it hasn’t synced yet. You can switch back to the default repositories and update the APT cache.

    3. Network end working after upgrade …says no cabel connected. What can i do ? Some AppArmor failed to start allso.

    4. After Upgrade My terminal showing the wired characters like hexadecimal, all the characters look like a different format.

    5. I tried both upgrade : fresh install of Linux Mint 20. I had to go back to Linux Mint 19.3. Linux Mint 20 is buggy gives me intram errors at booting time , I have trouble installing running some programs , they run slower way than Mint 19.3 and on the top of that it freeze without reason. I personally recommend to try the Linux Mint 20 using the live version mode and only if you are satisfied then upgrade. I personally going to wait until all that these issues are fixed to upgrade.

    6. Check that you are using the default software: Go into Software Sources. Click the tab on the bottom of the panel to select the defaults. got it running with resetting the packet sources to the defaults (no faster mirror), then it got found and was installed.

    8. I just want to say Thank you the Linux Mint team. I was using Linux Mint 19.3 and try the upgrade to Cinnamon 20 but for some reason I had some issues. So I came back to Linux Mint 19.3. Finally 2 days ago I thought that I could give a try to Linux Mint 20 Xfce . So I back up everything and first tried using an USB live to see how it would behave on my PC. I am just amazed! it’s fantastically fast, no issues at all, so I decided to proceed a fresh install and so far that’s the best Linux distro that I ever had !! It is beautiful , extremely fast and very responsive . So again thank you to the Linux Mint team for this new version !

    9. Ashish I have the same problem as you do.
      Have you found any solution for this problem?

      After upgrading to mint 20 using the upgrade instructions above, I can’t read anything on my screen. Everything is showing in boxes with numbers inside the boxes.
      Calendar to Terminal to File Explorer. A-Z all in boxes.

      Please someone should do something ASAP.

      Thank you so much in advance

    11. I wanted to leave a comment but could not find where to do it.
      Would liketo upgrade but after reading the various post…I am not knowledgeable enough to do the update.
      I’m 77 years old….so I I’ll have to find someone to do it rather than taking a chance off messing
      everything up.

    14. I wish i could post a vid of what my screen does when updating.. this mint has been one hell of a head ache.
      Nothing but failed downloads and failed to fetch errors.
      404 not found’s
      Why bother? Kali works, parrot works, black arch works, theres little place to find solid install procedures that cover step by steps. Following instruction from multiple sources on multiple install and update attempts all lead to different issues.. is this what people want to waste days on? Why is there no bulletproof install procedure?
      I am running bootable usb with persistence. On asus over windows 10. Set local mirrors, update cache brings issues update manager brings issues, nothing but issues here I am affraid. Do we need our phd to use this?

  2. “apt install mintupgrade” : “Unable to locate package mintupgrade”?

    I’ve checked and everything is already up to date with Update Manager. I’ve already installed kernel 5.4 if that makes a difference.

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    1. Not to worry, saw Alan’s response. Changed repository, writing this on Mint 20 🙂
      Great job Clem and crew!

  4. To the Linux Mint team. Thank you as always for your work on Linux Mint. Been using it on my Lenovo ThinkPad laptop to learn more about programming and devops stuff since Linux Mint 15 and it has been wonderful. Take care, best wishes and again, thank you 🙂

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  5. Will there be an upgrade process for 19.3 64Bit to 20 64Bit or must one do a fresh install?

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    1. Tim, That is what this blog post is about. It links to the necessary instructions

    2. Hi Tim,

      I assume you mean 32-bit? Linux Mint 19.3 is the last release to support the 32-bit architecture but you can continue to use it until April 2023.

    3. It is now possible to upgrade the 64-bit version of Linux Mint 19.3 to version 20.

    4. Apologies! My eyesight is not what it used to be and I misread the first page “… Out of now possible to upgrade…” as “… not possible…”

  6. I did mintupgrade check and was immediately faced with a near-unreadable screen. Yellow letters on a white background? Basically illegible.

    Did someone just assume everyone uses a black background in Terminal?

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    2. Well, I am color-blind (it seems about 10% of us, males are). I have always had a lot of problems with the colors developers choose for terminals and other things. When I can change them, good. When I can’t I have to live with a lot of difficulties trying to read things like green letters on red background, or red on yellow, or purple on blue…

      If contrast is low, things are worse.

      Perhaps your are color-blind too?

    4. You can always change your terminal colour scheme – just open terminal, then go edit > preferences > colors

  7. I just managed to update from Mint 19.3 to Mint 20 without a problem. System seems to be stable so far. Thanks for all the efforts!

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    1. Hello Ender, I dont know how to update to Linux Mint 20. I use amd64. I’ve read the instruction but it doesn”t work at all. Could you give me clear instructions. Kind regards from Holland

  8. On a machine running LM 19.3 MATE 64-bit, I’ve got a about six ppa s and/or other .list files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. Probably best practices would be to disable all those additional entries (with the exception of ‘official-package-repositories.list’) before proceeding with the upgrade to LM 20? Correct?

    .

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    2. @Clem replied: “The upgrader takes care of it…”

      Ok, thanks for that info. Much appreciated. 😉

      .

    3. Welp, started the upgrade as per the instructions. Everything was proceeding when after a while the three terminals I had running, including the terminal window with the upgrade running, suddenly disappeared with nothing but the Desktop background on the screen. At that point I was not sure whether the upgrade had ended successfully or fail? Opened another terminal window and ran apt update, no errors, ran apt upgrade which resulted in a list of packages that could be removed. Reboot, grub shows Linux Mint 20, log in screen comes up next, login, and all is well. Whew!

      Nice work Clem et al at Linux Mint. Many thanks!
      .

  10. Hi, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Gen 4) and I have the latest version of Linux Mint 20 installed but I have some problems. One is a serious problem with the battery. In recent days there is a problem that the system does not detect the battery and I must be plugged in to work with my laptop.
    I would be very happy if anyone could help me. | t.me/davidlev

    Thanks!

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  11. 1. Är säkerheten bättre i denna vers?
    2. kräver det mer systemresurser?
    3. Vad är den största fördelen med denna?

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    1. 1. Is safety better in this verse?
      2. does it require more system resources?
      3. What is the biggest advantage of it?

    3. 1. Ja, nyare paket.
      2. Nej, inte för mig.
      3. Lite nyare paket.

      … Min brast. …Python…

    2. You can download the installer for free and burn it to a DVD (a CD wouldn’t have enough space) yourself. The download page has instructions on how you can verify that the installer hasn’t been tempered with.
      There’s probably very little demand for officially produced installation DVDs.

  13. Po aktualizacji nie uruchamia się Chromium pokazuje że jest zainstalowane ale nie uruchamia się jak to naprawić

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    3. Well not necessarily. We don’t speak all languages, but we can pass things through online translators 🙂

  14. I upgraded but now i have a problem with the apps menu icons are broken anyone else has this problem?
    i tried to change the icons theme but it still shows unknown icons.
    help please

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    3. Can you switch to the Mint-Y icon theme? GTK changed the way fallback icons work so I’d expect some icon themes to break.

    4. Tried all themes but they stay broken red unknown.
      I switched to mint y but still same problem very weird.
      Thanks

    6. Hello Clem
      I have the adwaita theme fully installed, but still the problem remains in mate.
      If it cannot be fixed ill do a fresh reinstall.
      Thanks for the help!

    7. Sorry Keda,

      It’s probably something small. I can’t think of anything else.. without reproducing it I can’t really tinker or look for solutions. I’m hoping we’ll get more feedback on this and understand the cause. For now I’m not sure how I can help yet.

    12. Cool that was very fast It is fixed now!
      After the Mint Menu update everything works now.
      thanx for the best operating system and friendly support!

  15. Ran the upgrade, only hick-up during upgrade was loss of connectivity. Appears it was all DNS related. Had to manually set a DNS server via the resolv.conf file and run the upgrade again. All processed normally after this and the upgrade was smooth.

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    1. This happened to me as well. No wired internet upon rebooting after upgrade. i am not a power user by any means and after about half hour of trying to find a hint on search engine, I tried resetting my network adapters and saw DNS servers addresses were filled in but unknown to me. I deleted all, set to auto, and used terminal to restart network-manager. I was pretty much ready to timeshift back to 19.3 but thought I’ll give it one more reboot, and was delighted to see my VPN icon solid green indicating an internet connection!! This upgrade started in 2014 where Mint 15 was installed on a different machine. I pulled the hard drive out of that machine when the mobo fried and plugged it into another machine. Love the fact that Mint booted up to the desktop on a foreign machine. It figured out most of everything in regard to the machine’s hardware.. I have since upgraded through each increment of mint and have arrived today at 20. Not without some drama. I ran out of space on both root and boot during the upgrade that gave me a little scare but I managed to do some manual deletion and made it by with 90MB to spare. I started with 3.3GB free space in Root. I didn’t realize it would require so much space.

    2. Happened to me, too. At some point I got unable to resolve archive.ubuntu.com and the upgrade process aborted. After adding “nameserver 8.8.8.8” to “/etc/resolv.cong” and running “mintupgrade upgrade” again, the upgrade finished successfully.

  16. I posted this on FB but will also paste it here just in case it helps anybody or in case LM team wants to weigh in on it:

    Upgrade went well. I had two issues with remove foreign packages and resolution. With foreign packages it fails to remove mountall because it says it is an “essential” system package, but I see no mountall in the list of things being selected+removed and it looks like it comes from libplymouth4 because when I try to remove that it throws the error about mountall being essential. I guess I won’t worry about this too much, I am not sure I see a hard need to remove these anyway? The other issue is that display resolution was too small / for some reason smaller than it had been in LM 19.3 after the upgrade to LM 20 completed. Because my Linux Mint install is a VM in Unraid and I connect to it via noVNC, when looking at Preferences->Display everything was greyed out for the Unknown display and there was no way to change resolution. I had to add a “xrandr –output Virtual-1 –mode 1440×900” as a command in “Startup Applications” to sidestep this and now it looks fine and LM is at a pleasing resolution. Thank you!

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    1. I had the same problem with removing “essential system package”s. There was quite a list, but after a few tries I’ve whittled it down to the following four residual packages: gcc-6-base (6.5.0-2ubuntu~18.04), libnih1 (1.03-6ubuntu2), libprocps6 (2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1.2), and ureadahead (3.2.1967.47-1). I guess I’ll just leave them be.

  17. Help! I may be stuck. I followed the instructions. The mintupgrade check seemed to go well. Did the mintupgrsde download, then the mintupgrade upgrade. Things were going along just fine until it got to “Unpacking fonts-noto-extra (20200323-1) …” And then just about everything has been frozen since. I can move the mouse cursor, and it changes shape appropriately according to what’s on the screen (between the arrow and the I-shaped text selector, for example), but nothing else on the screen responds. The clock hasn’t changed in about 20 minutes, I can’t move the terminal window or interact with anything else. The laptop fan is going like crazy, and I can’t hear ANYTHING happening with the hard drive. Any ideas what to do next? Or is my system borked?

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    1. Ok. Nevermind. After about 30 minutes after posting the above, everything just suddenly popped back to life and the upgrade process is now continuing on its way. I guess patience is important.

    3. Hi Mike,

      Ok first, don’t panic! 🙂 The system is not borked. Worst-case scenario you restore the snapshot and you’re back in 19.3.

      It looks like the CPU is 100% busy and Cinnamon is frozen. If you can move the mouse it means Xorg is still running. I’d suggest to use CTRL+ALT+F2 to drop to console and check what’s using the CPU. You can go back to Xorg with CTRL+ALT+F7. From console you can also export the display (export DISPLAY=:0.0) and then kill cinnamon (killall cinnamon) and start something lighter like metacity (metacity). Check the processes currently running also (ps -ef) to see if the upgrade is progressing (in which case you need to be patient) or if nothing seems to be moving (in which case you need to kill/restart the WM to see what’s going on).

  18. I am now experiencing the same as Mike F.
    I just hope it is enough with patience..
    Now 15 minutes frozen…

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  19. Dear Clem and all the LM team,

    Thank you for all the effort.
    I have a question. Does this upgrade affect wine, flatpak, snap installations? If yes, what do you offer to handle the situation?

    Thank you in advance,
    Best

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  20. Maybe this is less important, but shouldn’t the instructions for mint 20 point to either a fresh upgrade or even a fresh install? Since mint is recommended to many as a first linux distro, won’t there be a lot of novice users? After having read both posts ..tutorial/view/2485 and ../tutorial/view/2 , I get the impression I should rather do a fresh upgrade or even just install mint 20 from scratch. I might just do the package upgrade later just to see what happens, but it seems a bit risky/tricky in comparison?

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  22. Had some trouble booting from my independent grub: in all previous mint versions (since 15 for me) the soft links vmlinuz and initrd.img were located in / , but in this version they’re in /boot. Why the change?

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  23. The few legacy systems I had left running Mint have all broken. Python mostly (*hate Python so much, not going to rant*)… Just going to take the time to migrate over to a rolling release using KDE on Manjaro or Endeavour. The whole concept of “hanging all packages up for ages and then trying to play catchup” just breaks every time for me.

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    2. Pretty much any package I installed that used a Python backend went completely…eh. Eric, Manuskript, Bleachbit (I’m careful), etc. Lots of others simply removed. displaycal, pyrit, pyrit-opencl, radiotray…, redshift-gtk, wine-related stuff. I can’t open any terminal and no tty will open, they just crash. Fortunately I left Guake open to do all of this in and it is still alive. It even removed amdgpu. Yes, I timeshifted back but geez this went horrible. 3 times.

    3. The check step doesn’t actually perform any changes though. At worst it could leave the cache in an inconsistent state, but it won’t upgrade/remove/install anything.

    4. Many others also broke. Mesa, amdgpu, php, just tons of stuff. I got EndeavourOS running with KDE, at least I’ll be on Wayland with the latest updates. Thanks anyways.

    5. I can confirm problems with Python. The Internet DJ Console (IDJC) which uses Python 2 won’t work any more because PyGTK is gone. I think this used to reside in python-gtk2-dev which is no longer in the repository.

    6. mcomix doesn’t work as well:
      “ERROR: Required PyGTK version is: 2.12.0 or higher”

  24. Hello from Linux Mint 20, upgrade went without a hitch. Thank you Clem and LM team for another fantastic release.

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  25. Linux’ tan çok memnunum. Devamını ve yeni sürümlerini heyecanla bekliyorum. Başarılarınızın devamını diliyorum. Başka bir işletim sistemini ciddiye almıyorum. Sizler devamlı olmalısınız.

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  27. #mintupgrade check
    Please don’t run this command as root or with elevated privileges.
    Please guide how can I update. this cmd is not working in my system

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  29. ‘Your swap space is encrypted. An issue in Linux Mint 20 ‘Ulyana’ currently prevents the use of encrypted swap.’

    Any idea where I can read more about this bug and get updates? The updater didn’t mention where, and I can’t find any reference to it online.

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  30. Is there a way to do an upgrade without having Timeshift enabled? I use BackInTime for my backups for years and feel confident that I can restore in case of a failure.

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  31. Just went through these steps, went smoothly for me, no problems so far. And quick, too, maybe 20-30mins? I’m used to Windows updates from my office, which take forever. Thanks for a great OS and great work!

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    2. Ok then. Thank you Clem! I leave here the error messages anyway. It is something with bluetooth and lightdm.

      22:32:53 lightdm: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
      22:31:45 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0xfc2f
      22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_PR.CPU0._PDC due to previous error (AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE) (20190816/psparse-529)
      22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_PR.CPU0._PDC due to previous error (AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE) (20190816/psparse-529)
      22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE, While resolving operands for [Store] (20190816/dswexec-431)
      22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: Needed type [Reference], found [Integer] 000000006575d48e (20190816/exresop-66)

  33. I simply want to say thank you to Clem. I am windows transplant for less than a year now and I have completed the upgrade on one of my two desktops without any issues. I really enjoy Linux Mint. Thank you so much for what you do.

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  34. The upgrade from 19.3 went fine, but I’m unable to execute “Downgrade foreign packages” or “Remove foreign packages”. I get following error when trying to execute it:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/foreign_packages.py”, line 241, in module
    foreign_browser = Foreign_Browser()
    File “/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/foreign_packages.py”, line 100, in __init__
    candidate_version = pkg.candidate.version
    AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘version’

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  35. Hi, I get the following during the mintupgrade check (I had to change the “less than” sign with =less= or the site will block the content):
    Press Enter to continue

    + Simulating an upgrade…

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Calculating upgrade… Error!
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (=less= 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    libssl1.1 : Breaks: python-httplib2 (=less= 0.11.3-1) but 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
    libssl1.1:i386 : Breaks: python-httplib2 (=less= 0.11.3-1) but 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
    python3-mako : Breaks: python-mako (=less= 1.1.0+ds1-1) but 1.0.7+ds1-1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 626, in =less=module>
    upgrader.check()
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 398, in check
    cache.upgrade(True)
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py”, line 385, in upgrade
    self._depcache.upgrade(dist_upgrade)
    apt_pkg.Error: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
    Error in sys.excepthook:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py”, line 154, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL, 0o640), ‘wb’) as f:
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/var/crash/_usr_bin_mintupgrade.1000.crash’

    Original exception was:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 626, in =less=module>
    upgrader.check()
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 398, in check
    cache.upgrade(True)
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py”, line 385, in upgrade
    self._depcache.upgrade(dist_upgrade)
    apt_pkg.Error: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    How should I proceed? If I try to remove the first library, I get a huge list of dependencies including some critical ones:
    WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
    This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
    mintsources python3-gi (due to mintsources)
    python3-gi-cairo (due to mintsources) mint-common (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-glib-2.0 (due to mintsources) gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-pango-1.0 (due to mintsources) gir1.2-vte-2.91 (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-xapp-1.0 (due to mintsources)
    372 upgraded, 140 newly installed, 407 to remove and 2567 not upgraded.
    WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
    This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
    mintsources python3-gi (due to mintsources)
    python3-gi-cairo (due to mintsources) mint-common (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-glib-2.0 (due to mintsources) gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-pango-1.0 (due to mintsources) gir1.2-vte-2.91 (due to mintsources)
    gir1.2-xapp-1.0 (due to mintsources)
    372 upgraded, 140 newly installed, 407 to remove and 2567 not upgraded.

    Also my Update Manager is in unusable state:
    Could not refresh the list of updates
    Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be cause by held packages

    I assume this is because all my PPAs and Additional Repositories have been removed and not restored after the mintupgrade check error.

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    4. Any solution? Same

      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (=less= 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed

      Trying to remove libgirepository-1.0-1 and python-gi shows that mintmenu and blueberry depend on it.

  36. BUG REPORT:
    -Main monitor: DVI-D Plug LG monitor
    -Auxiliar monitor: HDMI Samsung TV

    Cant turn off the HDMI Samsung TV, the mouse point keep going out of the limit of screen. Even if I switch to off the “Active” button, it come back to on after I hit the apply button.

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    2. What will the Cinnamon update for the “multi-monitor fix coming up this week” be called?

      Will the update be for both Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon and Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon?

      Thank you

  37. Hi, just started to upgrade and first issue is Timeshift as mintupgrade try to force me to make a snapshot. As I use zfs as filesystem, it is completely useless.
    Workaround: just start timeshift, I did not do any snapshots (on zfs of course I did) -> mintupgrade can step further.
    Now I got the error, regarding Mate:
    !! ERROR: Performing the upgrade would remove the following important packages:

    mint-meta-mate

    I am still investigating this issue.

    Thanks for your valuable work and effort.

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    2. Sorry this is in portuguese, but you can figure out with help of google:

      Os pacotes a seguir têm dependências desencontradas:
      mint-meta-mate : Depende: mate-sensors-applet mas não será instalado
      E: Impossível corrigir problemas, você manteve (hold) pacotes quebrados.

      ————————————————
      !! ERROR: Failed to install mint-meta-mate
      !! Exiting.
      ————————————————

  39. Hey Clem. Great that you are answering questions about Linux Mint 20 Ulyana Cinnamon upgrades. I followed the instructions provided. And what do you know I’m up and running on Linux Mint 20 Ulyana.

    Some minor issues:

    -Couldn’t downgrade or remove foreign packages. Clicking on those buttons did nothing.

    -After rebooting the first time after install I got an intraimfs warning that flashed up too quickly for me to read. I think it was something about encryption. I rebooted again and the same error comes up. I can probably film it and see exactly what it says. But after that I get the green round Linux Mint circle logo and it boots up fine. I see someone above said they are getting ACPI errors upon startup. Not sure if my issue is similar.

    -Also now VLC Media Player seems to work once after I start my computer and then when I double click on a video file or attempt to right click to open with VLC nothing happens. Killing the VLC process fixes things. A possible fix down the road I suppose? A possible bug.

    But apart from that I’ve only been playing around with LM 20 Ulyana Cinammon for 45 minutes and everything else I need to run is going great.

    Thanks for another great upgrade and look forward to another donation from me.

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    1. Thanks Anthony,

      1- We’ve a fix coming up for this (assuming it’s the same issue) in the next few minutes.
      2- This is cosmetic and upstream afaik.
      3- I’m not aware of this.

    2. Thanks for the prompt reply Clem.

      I’ve been using Linux Mint for just over a year now and have been loving it. It was recommended to me by a friend. I was a Mac user for 14 years previous. And a Windows user for years before that. Linux is amazing and worth supporting. And I love the Linux Mint flavour of Linux in particular.

    3. I performed a Linux Mint software update and there was a single update. After I installed that I was able to downgrade and remove foreign packages. It’s great how fast that was fixed. I rebooted after doing this and I still got the intraimfs start up error flashing quickly but then the computer boots into Linux Mint 20 Ulyana anyway no worries. So if it’s just cosmetic I can live with that. Maybe a software update will fix it in the future. I’ll keep an eye on VLC in the meantime.

    4. Hey Clem. I went ahead and filmed and screenshotted the startup error I was getting after upgrading to LM 20 Ulyana Cinnamon.

      [ 0.519663] Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed
      _

      Hope that helps.

      I also found that when starting programs with the pyhton command requires using python2 now if you are running a Python 2 program. I worked it out myself. But others may not know.

    5. Hi Anthony,

      That’s purely cosmetic (and upstream).
      To make python2 default, you can install the package “python-is-python2”.

  40. Disable Vsync AMD Graphics?…

    English:
    My monitor is 60hz in 3D games, ok, no problem vsync … But some fps games, 2D rpg gets stuck and if I put like 75hz, 100hz that locking sensation disappears, would I have to disable vsync in amd graphics? Mine is RX 570 4gb. I was excited to see some videos on youtube saying that I could disable vsync on linux mint 20, I was very excited to update, it was my update but expected, I don’t know if you can disable it.

    Portuguese:
    Meu monitor é 60hz em jogos 3D, ok, sem problema o vsync…Mas alguns jogos de fps, rpg 2D fica travando e se eu colocar como 75hz, 100hz essa sensação de travamento some, teria como desabilitar o vsync nas amd graficas? A minha é RX 570 4gb. Fiquei animado vendo alguns videos no youtube falando que poderia desativar vsync no linux mint 20, fui muito animado para atualizar, era a minha atualização mas esperada, não sei se tem como desativa-la.

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  41. Other problems after the upgrade:: All menus are gone from all program windows. I can get menus in program windows if I create a new user. How do I fix this for my existing user account so I don’t have to recreate everything? Also, trying to log into a guest session from the login screen gives me the following error: “Could not update ICEauthority file /run/user/997/ICEauthority.” Also, all my PPA’s and repositories were deleted. Not a showstopper, but it would be nice to have a list somewhere of which ones I had so I don’t have to rebuild everything all over again.

    Reply

    2. Clem, any ideas about the missing menus? I tried copying over all the hidden files and folders from a new account, hoping that would fix it, but it did nothing. This is in Cinnamon.

    3. Hi Mike,

      No that’s really weird.. you’re saying there’s nothing in menubars? Can you show me a screenshot?

    4. Got it fixed. Apparently there were several extra packages leftover from either the 19.3 installation or a PPA or something that didn’t get all removed that showed up after having already removed foreign packages in Software Sources. Not sure why they didn’t show up before. But after removing them, menus came back. I wish I could remember which packages they were.

  43. Thanks, Clem! What should I do about my missing menus? And what about the ICEauthority error? This is in the Cinnamon version of Mint, by the way.

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  44. Clem, do not waste your time for this, check below:
    I manually removed mint-meta-mate package, only that one removed.
    Now the check is finished without error.
    So, the solution was: just remove mint-meta-mate before check the upgrade process.
    Thanks!

    Reply

    1. mint-meta-mate isn’t a big deal and it gets reinstalled on the other side anyway… but check the list of removed packages all the same, review each removal in case this is hiding a bigger issue. Looking at it from here it looks fine to me, but it’s Czech (I think?), so I’m not 100% sure 🙂

    2. Hungarian, but quite straightforward , unless everything seems fine 🙂

    3. I uninstalled if before the upgrade, but still got the error. Let’s hope it will now reboot…

  45. I plan to upgrade 19.3 -> 20 with root on ZFS (in fact, everything on zfs).
    Any hint or results from others? 🙂

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    1. Update: Upgrading went well with zfs on root, except some scary messages during the process.
      Once I had to delete two existing directories from a dataset to be able to mount the underlying filesystems (not related to the upgrade).
      NetworkManager did not manage my ethernet (even there was static connection via the neworkmanager config), I had to create a file with content:
      file: /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-globally-managed-devices.conf
      content:
      [keyfile]
      unmanaged-devices=*,except:type:wifi,except:type:gsm,except:type:cdma,except:type:wwan,except:type:ethernet,except:type:vlan

    2. Upgraded to 20 here. All seems fine so far. WiFi = ok, but wired network does not work.
      THANK YOU @Pongrácz István
      Your fix worked like a charm!
      Wired network is up and running.

  47. Thanks a lot to all developers! Upgrade worked well for me on my esprimo mobile Laptop. I upgraded this computer since my first steps done on Linux after end of W XP support with a clean LM17 cinnamon installation without any problem! I am very impressed about your work! I really like to work with this older laptop that is running very snappy with LM20 cinnamon on an P8t00@2.53GHz upgraded by 4GB RAM and a small 128 GB SSD! With a lot of respect a big Thank you for keeping functional systems running! Keeping such older machines running is a big advantage for environment and makes me very happy to use and not to scrap. Please continue your good work, you can be very proud on such good results making many users happy and welcome new ones….

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  48. The upgrade seemed to go as planned until the reboot and one of my monitors then displays “out of range” and I get no display and I wasn’t able to access any of the menu or panel options as it was on the non working monitor.. As I was unable to find a way to resolve this, I was forced to use Timeshift to restore from terminal. Thankfully all is back to the way it was before. Maybe I’ll try it again after I can figure a way to get both monitors to work.

    Reply

    1. Hi James,

      We’ve a pending update for Cinnamon affecting multi-monitor support. Hopefully it fixes your problem.

    2. I’ve occasionally seen this over the years, in all cases I’ve had this was solved by turning the monitor off & back on, with the monitor accepting the signal after that.

  49. hello linux mint I have a small problem with all the steps as indicated in the tutorial up to point d5, but point d6 I try to do based on what I said there to mark everything to delete except what you install I do, I try to delete and it tells me try to remove packages from the system that cannot be removed !.
    ask how are essential external system packages that cannot be removed thanks

    Reply

    1. Hi Freddy,

      I think that’s just an issue in mintsources. Can you tell us which package is causing this?

  50. The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    libssl1.1 : Breaks: python-httplib2 (< 0.11.3-1) but 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    is this good to upgrade ? or not

    Reply

    2. the output inxi -r
      Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
      1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
      2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
      3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
      4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
      5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
      6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner

    3. Hi Alvarro,

      These are the target repositories, I mean the original ones… If you’re stuck with these you can use “mintupgrade restore-sources”.

    5. Hi Clem, I got error when “mintupgrade check”

      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi ( < 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
      libssl1.1 : Breaks: python-httplib2 ( < 0.11.3-1) but 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
      libssl1.1:i386 : Breaks: python-httplib2 ( < 0.11.3-1) but 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
      python3-mako : Breaks: python-mako ( < 1.1.0+ds1-1) but 1.0.7+ds1-1 is to be installed
      E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/mintupgrade", line 626, in
      upgrader.check()
      File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 398, in check
      cache.upgrade(True)
      File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py”, line 385, in upgrade
      self._depcache.upgrade(dist_upgrade)
      apt_pkg.Error: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

      This is the output of “inxi -r”:
      inxi -r
      Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
      No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-pro-local.list
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gezakovacs-ppa-bionic.list
      1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
      2: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-bionic.list
      1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
      2: deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kisak-kisak-mesa-bionic.list
      1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kisak/kisak-mesa/ubuntu bionic main
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lunarg-vulkan-1.2.135-bionic.list
      1: deb https://packages.lunarg.com/vulkan/1.2.135 bionic main
      2: deb-src https://packages.lunarg.com/vulkan/1.2.135 bionic main
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-bionic.list
      1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu bionic main
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
      1: deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_13.x bionic main
      2: deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_13.x bionic main
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
      1: deb http://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/linuxmint tricia main upstream import backport
      2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
      3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
      4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
      5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
      6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
      No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
      No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
      No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list

    6. Hi Bimo,

      Can you restore from snapshot and then show me the output of “apt remove python-gi -s”? We have blueberry depending on this but it doesn’t specify a version, so I don’t understand why python-gi is kept like that..

    7. mintupgrade check creates the following message:

      Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
      Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
      Statusinformationen werden eingelesen…. Fertig
      Paketaktualisierung (Upgrade) wird berechnet… Fehler!
      Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
      Sie eine unmögliche Situation angefordert haben oder, wenn Sie die
      Unstable-Distribution verwenden, dass einige erforderliche Pakete noch
      nicht erstellt wurden oder Incoming noch nicht verlassen haben.
      Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:

      Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
      libgirepository-1.0-1 : Beschädigt: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) aber 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 soll installiert werden
      libssl1.1 : Beschädigt: python-httplib2 (< 0.11.3-1) aber 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 soll installiert werden
      python3-mako : Beschädigt: python-mako (< 1.1.0+ds1-1) aber 1.0.7+ds1-1 soll installiert werden
      E: Fehler: Unterbrechungen durch pkgProblemResolver::Resolve hervorgerufen; dies könnte durch zurückgehaltene Pakete verursacht worden sein.

    9. I have exactly the same problem. Trying to remove python-gi does not work, the remove command seems to go OK but then a list command shows that it is still there. Went into SW manager and looked up python-gi, there it says that it is not removable. BUT then I went back to the Timeshift snapshot before having removed all external PPA’s and repositories and now it let me remove both python-gi and python-gi-cairo. After this I ran mintupgrade anew and now it worked. I.e. there is a dependency somewhere that gets “broken” when downgrading and removing rep’s I’d guess

    1. Thanks. We’ll have a look. It’s safe to keep it in in the meantime, or you can remove it from the command line (sudo apt-get remove mountall).

  53. Muy buen trabajo Linux Mint es mi distro favorita, ya son 2 años que estoy usandolo y siempre me sorprenden.

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  54. I’m trying to upgrade mint on my laptop. everything went well until this stage:

    unpacking fonts-noto-cjk (1:20190410+repack1-2) over (1:20190409+repack1-0ubuntu0.18.04)…

    At this point the computer seems to be working very hard, fan is emitting lots of noise, mouse a keyboard are very leggy, and ~10 minutes later it doesn’t seem to progress. I’m now going to brake it and use timeshift to restore 19.3

    Reply

    1. Hi Hezy,

      Other people reported this. Just be patient and let it go through it. It’s using 100% CPU for some reason and it can even freeze the desktop, but the upgrade is progressing.

  55. In LM 19.3 (Cinnamon!) the tray icon of the Signal-Desktop application was not shown by default.
    One had to go to “System Settings” -> “General” -> “Enable support for indicators” to solve this.
    Where is this option now? I cannot find it anymore.

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  56. Hello, I have uninstalled mountall with the command you gave me, but I am trying to remove an essential package from the system. The libnih-dbus1 package cannot be removed.

    Reply

  57. everything appears when I try the process of tutorial d6, I proceed to remove it with the command that means above replacing the name? , yes or no ?, will it perfuse the system ?, I’m already on linux mint 20 but still can’t do step d6

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  58. how can i fix my audio. no sound card until i run sudo alsa force-reload .how can i fix this so i dont have to reload terminal every reset. also this is much nicer and faster. thank you guys

    Reply

    1. Same problem here. Sound worked fine on live distro I tried before the upgrade. The following article gives some advice (https://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/), but none of the tips worked for me. I’ve also tried modifying grub and the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file with options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0 per advice from a couple websites to no avail. If you find the solution, please post it back here (I’ll do the same). Right now I’m in the process of trying the upgrade again after timeshifting back to 19.3.

    2. When the card is working, run “sudo alsactl store” in the terminal without the quotes, then reboot and see if the sound works without intervention.

    3. Thanks. Just tried running sudo alsactl store. No help. Still have to run sudo alsa force-reload after every reboot.

    4. I was afraid of that. Please start a new thread on the forum, as this might take some lengthy troubleshooting.

  59. Just recently finished the update install on the older of my two laptops. Though I haven’t yet found any issues as I’ve looked through things, will continue monitoring it for a few days before proceeding to install on the newer laptop. I had concerns I might lose my preferred browser of choice (Brave) as the only way I’d found to install it was through the Snap Store without having error issues or not working at all. Brave is working fine and Snap Store is still there. So, thus far, it seems everything is working fine. I had no issues happen during install either. So, great job LM team. Thank you.

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  60. Saudações!
    Alguém sabe como instalar o WARPINATOR no MINT 19.3?
    obrigado

    Greetings!
    Does anyone know how to install WARPINATOR on MINT 19.3?
    thank you

    Reply

  61. I’ve tried a fresh installation on my HP 15-cs0051wm laptop and got the message related to disable Intel RST Raid Controller. This laptop has the Raid settings embedded in the BIOS, so I have no option to switch to ATA/AHCI. Will I have the same problem doing the upgrade from Mint Cinnamon 19.3 which by the way, never had a conflict with the Raid Controller?

    Reply

    1. Never mind. I followed the instructions using Terminal and now I’m typing this update/reply from Linux Mint 20. It took close to 2 hrs. to complete. So far it looks like all is in order. I’ve been a Linux Mint user since Version 17. Love Linux. I’m not even dual booting anymore. Can’t stand Windows and don’t have any need for it anyway. Thank you Clem and Team members. Excellent job.

  62. Does anyone know when it’s going to be able to update directly from the “Update Manager”? Thanks!

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    2. Thanks Clem! That got me past the download step. I got an error msg after I ran the “mintupgrade upgrade” command. I don’t have a copy of that first error msg. I think it was “could not resolve archive.ubuntu.com”. I ran the “mintupgrade upgrade” command a 2nd time and this time I got the following error msgs…

      Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libnetcdf-c++4 amd64 4.2-11build2
      Could not resolve ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
      Err:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libhdf5-103 amd64 1.10.4+repack-11ubuntu1
      Could not resolve ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
      Err:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libnetcdf15 amd64 1:4.7.3-1
      Could not resolve ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
      E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/netcdf-cxx-legacy/libnetcdf-c++4_4.2-11build2_amd64.deb Could not resolve ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
      E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/h/hdf5/libhdf5-103_1.10.4+repack-11ubuntu1_amd64.deb Could not resolve ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
      E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/netcdf/libnetcdf15_4.7.3-1_amd64.deb Could not resolve ‘archive.ubuntu.com’
      E: Some files failed to download

      ————————————————
      !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
      !! Exiting.
      ————————————————

      + Restoring your backed up APT sources…

      I can no longer get online with that computer and had to move to a different computer while I troubleshoot.

    3. Hi Paul,

      That’s a networking isue. Ping an IP to see if it’s just the DNS (8.8.8.8 for instance). It could be the newer kernel not playing nice with your network interface also?

    4. Similar thing happened to me, too. At some point I got unable to resolve archive.ubuntu.com and the upgrade process aborted. After adding “nameserver 8.8.8.8” to “/etc/resolv.cong” and running “mintupgrade upgrade” again, the upgrade finished successfully.

  64. rafikiphoto
    Installed fine once I downloaded mintupgrade and reset mirrors to default. Thanks for the tutoria and fot Mint v20.

    Reply

  65. So if it is being administered by the XappStatusIcon tray applet now, what do I have to do to get the Signal tray icon back?

    Reply

    1. Hi Oskar,

      Is the tray applet loaded? If so it should handle all indicators and SNI out of the box. We’ll test Signal on our side to make sure.

    2. This icon issue (I’ve found something on it on https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3974#issuecomment-627555112), non-working “Brightness and Gamma-Applet” and some other things like unexpected behavior of apps such as “Steam” and “Kodi” when applying fractional scaling, made me to go back to 19.3. Everything works fine there and I am not too keen about fractional scaling yet. My eyes still work well enough. 😉 Maybe I’ll give LM 21 a try.

  66. I just had to pop my head in to say a big fat hairy THANK YOU to the Mint team. Upgrade went great, everything looks great. As an old window$ geek, fairly recently converted to linux (2 yrs. ago), I have to say that you folks have given me back my sanity. My laptop never ran so well (or so fast!), EVER, even with all my efforts on window$ to improve it. Now I just USE my machine, rather than chase crap around. My productivity has sky-rocketed thanks to the work you do. Seriously, I can’t thank you enough. Financial support is forthcoming whenever I can spare anything at all. You earned it! God bless.

    Reply

  67. Well it take about one hour on a core I3 3100 / 4gig /9or 10 years old computer.
    Everything is were it was.
    Thunderbird / docs / firefox…. all feel quicker.
    Just do what it ask when it does! On an untouched 19.3 sys it went smooth.

    Linux Mint cinnamon est absolument épatant! Pour a mise à jour prevoyez juste un sachet de pistaches… Voir du saucisson à l’ail et du maroilles pour la distanciation sociale et les machines lentes.

    BRAVO et MERCI!

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  68. Linux Mint 20.0 out. Do not, I repeat do NOT use the shield update while using mintupdate to get there, as the APT is changed and so it thinks the updates for 20 are available to directly install. WAIT.

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  69. Things I’m not sure of … I NEED use, Virtualbox (especially this) and a few other old emulators. I could wait a while on everything BUT virtualbox.

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  70. Flawless upgrade on the first try from Mint 19.3 Cinnamon!

    Whether by the mintupgrade process, by hook, or by crook, this computer has been in-place upgraded ever since Mint 15…sometimes going smoother than others, because You Ain’t Supposed To Do That in many of those cases. Never has it taken me more than an hour or two of effort at worst to resolve resulting glitches, and until now the least has been about ten minutes.

    Today it took ZERO time for getting things right again.

    No glitches.

    NONE.

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  71. When running mintupgrade check:

    + Checking your Linux Mint codename…

    + Checking your Linux Mint edition…

    + Checking your Timeshift configuration…

    + Checking for encrypted swap…
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 625, in module
    upgrader.prepare()
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 239, in prepare
    if “swap” in entry[CRYPTTAB_OPTS]:
    IndexError: list index out of range

    There is no swap partition on this machine – perhaps that’s the reason?

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  72. When i want to add a ppa i get: Cannot add PPA: ”This PPA does not support focal”. I’ve already updated ca-certificates but it doesn’t help. also on another notebook i wanted to switch back to an earlier snapshot but it completely broke the system. I’m not even able to use grub and had to reinstall.

    Reply

    2. Hi Chris/Clem,
      I get this error message too trying to install banshee directly as it appears to be no longer in the repository when i use the command
      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa

  73. Ah, I’ve worked out the error:

    if “swap” in entry[CRYPTTAB_OPTS]:

    CRYPTTAB_OPTS = 3, so it’s looking for the 4th element in the line.

    Checking /etc/crypttab, there is a blank line in there, and the code is not handling that. So it should ignore commented out lines (which it does), *and* blank lines.

    Hope that helps!

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  74. I read a lot about people running linux mint together with windows XP or windows 7.
    But I want to completely replace my windows 7.
    Is there a difference in the installation process?
    Or what is the difference, how do I do this?

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  75. Performed an upgrade succesfully. After reboot, system ends up only ”grub rescue” -mode. What to do?

    Reply

    1. Hi Olaf,

      Did something go wrong during the upgrade? If you’re unable to boot, boot from the live ISO and launch timeshift. It should find your snapshots and let you restore.

    3. had the same problem here. i have root, home and win10 on 3 separate hard drives. was dropped to grub rescue on first reboot after what i thought was a successful upgrade. used 19.3 live disk “boot repair” option for sort it out

    4. I solved this. The upgrade process somehow changed the grub install partition. I have 3 disks and needed to select another disk for booting from bios. Weird, but working now.

      BTW, Thanks for amazing distro!

    5. I have the same problem and as someone else mentioned, “mintupgrade” put grub on different partition as it was in 19.3… Strange, but changing boot partition in BIOS did the job. Maybe it is some issue with “mintupgrade”…?

  76. My upgrade is sitting at “Setting up friendly-recovery” and has been there for quite a while (20-30 minutes); will it eventually continue our have I run into a problem? Thanks!

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    2. During the “mintupgrade upgrade” step it goes through the process of setting up various drivers/processes (x11-server-utils, mintlocale, mintstick, etc.) but is now sitting on the “Setting up friendly-recovery (0.2.41)” step and won’t continue.

    3. I gave up, restored the system (Timeshift), then uninstalled “friendly-recovery” before trying the upgrade again; no problems after that! Thanks!

  77. Hello Clem, I had this error at the end of the upgrade, I don’t know what to do:

    dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (–configure):
    installed base-passwd package post-installation script the thread returned an error with exit status 1
    Errors encountered while processing:
    base-passwd
    E: Sub-process / usr / bin / dpkg returned an error code (1)
    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

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  78. Hi,
    I get the following error, can anyone please point to what’s missing here:
    Full error output: https://pastebin.com/qpr448RT

    “The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    dbus : Depends: libdbus-1-3 (= 1.12.2-1ubuntu1.2) but 1.12.16-2ubuntu2.1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.”

    Thank you

    Reply

    1. Hi,

      That’s a networking issue, the repositories aren’t reached prior to this error.
      Unable to connect to archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]

  79. I am getting error after putting in this command. I already updated the package manager and changed the repositories as well.
    mintupgrade check
    WARNING:root:could not open file ‘/etc/apt/sources.list’

    mintupgrade: command not found

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  80. Upgrade fails, hplip-data breaks configure of python3 and from here is goes downhill…
    deinstallling hplip-data and making a dpkg –configure -a repairs python3 and a lot of other packages but not all
    (some packages depends on python <3.7 and the install is python 3.8)
    Have restored the snapshot and will wait in 19.3

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    2. Don’t remember. The version installed depended on python 2.
      Removing hplip hplip-data solved he problem.
      Upgraded without problems.
      Reinstalled hplip after and all is ok.

    3. I had the same issue with hplip and Python. This was the first error message of many:

      Setting up python3 (3.8.2-0ubuntu2) …
      running python rtupdate hooks for python3.8…
      E: py3compile:183: cannot create directory /usr/share/hplip/ui5/__pycache__: FileNotFoundError(2, ‘No such file or directory’) /usr/share/hplip/base/utils.py:2061: SyntaxWarning: “is” with a literal. Did you mean “==”?
      (also gave this when trying to fix things with “sudo apt-get -f install”

      What finally helped, was this: “sudo rm /usr/share/python3/runtime.d/hplip-data.rtupdate”

      and after that continuing with ” “sudo apt-get -f install””, “apt update”, “apt dist-upgrade”

    4. I also had this issue w/ hplip. I had v 3.20.3 (IIRC). I went to the website and downloaded 3.20.6 but it would not install because of lack of pyqt4. I followed instructions from askubuntu and used configure script to enable pyqt5 and disable pyqt4. The program compiled, installed but did not work. Installing hplip-gui did not help either.
      I reverted to 19.3 via time backup app.
      Would it be possible to post in a prominent location when this incompatibility is fixed? Reading though 600+ comments is not feasible.

  82. error code 1 in wine installation problem in apt …, dock error, speed reduction in my device and some others more unfortunate it is the first time it happens to me and it has returned to mint 19.3 for me at the moment 50% higher than the new version, I will wait for the improvements and corrections that give you over time I trust you always give a great job, I will wait a few months or more to give linux mint 20 another chance

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  83. As far as XappStatusIcon’s support of indicators, is there any way to configure how that works? Cinnamon 4.4.8’s handling of indicators was beautiful. This new way is incredibly glitchy and not very nice-looking. Before, if I set Cinnamon to handle indicators, their menus would look more or less like other applet menus, taking on the panel menu theming. With this, it’s more like a regular drop-down menu, which just doesn’t fit in with the rest of the panel, and is pretty ugly. And with the Dropbox indicator menu, the Dropbox application seems to add items to the menu after the menu was opened. In Cinnamon 4.4.8 with indicator support turned on, it would automatically adjust its size. With this new way, it appears as half the needed size, with scroll arrows at the top and bottom and half the menu items hidden from view. I DO NOT like this. Can we have an option to use the old method of indicator handling in XappStatusIcon, or instead allow Cinnamon to handle indicators instead, like we had before? This current way of doing it just doesn’t work or look very nice at all.

    Reply

    1. Hi Mike,

      It used to be handled by Cinnamon directly and rendered natively (although that was turned off by default). It also used to run in the Cinnamon single-threaded process and potentially affect the stability and performance of the DE. It also didn’t handle SNI and new Electron apps. There are ways to configure it, but it’s all enabled by default. First, make sure it’s actually there and enabled in the panel. Second, check the settings keys with “gsettings list-recursively org.x.apps.statusicon”.

    2. Clem,

      XappStatusIcon seems to be active in the panel.

      Here are the results of the gsettings command:
      org.x.apps.statusicon sn-watcher-advertise-host true
      org.x.apps.statusicon sn-watcher-replace-tooltip [‘qbittorrent’]
      org.x.apps.statusicon status-notifier-enabled-desktops [‘Cinnamon’, ‘X-Cinnamon’]
      org.x.apps.statusicon sn-watcher-debug false
      org.x.apps.statusicon left-click-activate-apps [‘onboard’]

      Here are some screenshots of what I’m seeing:

      Dropbox menu isn’t rendered full-height the first time it’s opened and isn’t rendered with the panel theme like it used to be when Cinnamon used to handle indicators: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ei_X7P6BvQNzrrotK5YD33ArS9JJQ6L1/view?usp=sharing

      For reference, all other panel applets are rendered with this panel theme, which is how it used to look on Dropbox and all other notication area indicators in 19.3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O78WMCF-8zoAyG0s208uzII1XjZR4R7J/view?usp=sharing

  84. I’m also getting the initramfs unpacking failed: decoding failed, but it will only boot to initramfs. Event the 5.0.0 recovery brings me here. Volume group ming-vg not found. Cannot process volume group mint-vg. mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically. Then dropped to initramfs.

    It’s not a big deal because I can always do a fresh install, though if someone has a hint, it might be helpful. In addition, before my final reboot my wifi had broken, I’m on a Dell E6440, i5 integrated gpu, added an SSD.

    Reply

    1. Hi,

      The decoding error is unrelated to the boot issue, it’s only cosmetic.

      It’s weird that it doesn’t find your LVM. The upgrade works successfully for us with full LUKS/LVM here. Make sure cryptsetup-initramfs is installed and update with “sudo update-initramfs -u”. Check /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab for clues. “sudo lvs” should also find your LVM, even in live mode.

    2. I have the same problem. Since I upgraded to Mint 20, my machine is unable to boot with
      “mint-vg not found. Cannot process volume group mint-vg”.

      I boot with live system and did
      udate-initramfs
      update-grub
      grub-install

      but no success.

      When I boot to rescue, it hangs on
      Loading linux 5.4.0-40-generic …
      Loading initial ramdisk…

      It’s interesting, live distro (systemrescuecd based on Arch) can see my vg with no problem.
      I have my root partition encrypted with luks.
      Any idea?

  85. Hello,
    i’m running mintupgrade check and getting a list of packages that will be removed, like:
    “`mysql-client-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7 mysql-server-5.7
    mysql-server-core-5.7 mysql-workbench pgadmin4 pgadmin4-common python python-cliapp python-configobj python-dev…“` etc
    Some of them will be upgraded to newer version , some of them will be just removed and not upgraded.
    Why the packages above needs to be removed, i mean whats the purpose?
    So i guess i need to install them again, if i want to use lower version…
    Thanks

    Reply

    1. They probably have unmet dependencies. If they’re not important packages I’d suggest to remove them. mysql for instance is probably replaced by version 8.0 during the upgrade? If not, you can go ahead and have 5.7 removed for now and then install 8.0 post-upgrade.

    2. mysql itself can be installed after the upgrade, but the workbench (mysql-workbench) is not to be found in the main repos anymore. Anyone any idea whether it will come back or whether we need to install from their deb package or a 3rd party ppa?

    3. Okay it seems the packaging for the workbench changed. It’s now the Mysql Community Workbench, that will likely be reflected in the package if it makes it back… I guess… Will have to see whether it make it back into the main repos I guess under any name. In any case, one can get it from the official page as a deb package (using the ubuntu version seems to work fine – with just a quick smoke test being done, so ymmv) https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

  86. Just upgraded on my 8 year old Asus desktop and it went fine. But like Mike F mentioned above, it takes a long time and it’s a slow process. Be patient. Other than that it’s great as usual.

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  87. I did as suggested and when uprading 19.3 there are broken packages from official repo. After that, I am unable to locate package mintupgrade… how can I proceed?

    Reply

    1. I’d need to see the output of “mintupgrade check”. mintupgrade itself isn’t present in 20, only in 19.3. I’d suggest to restore the snapshot first and then try the check step again and paste the output here.

    2. Looks like the repo was on a sync the moment I tried, today it went like a charm. Thanks!

  88. Not great. Can’t do mintupgrade, or find out why, because there is no man page, and –help switch doesn’t override the don’t run as root demand, which claims “please”, but won’t run without whatever secret code might hide a workaround for an installation that has no ordinary user, only the superuser, who should be able to do anything and everything any other user can do in addition to the things an ordinary user cannot do without elevated privileges.

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  89. Upgrade went fine, good job. I’m having some dual monitor weirdness but saw there’s fixes on the way so I’ll wait to see how that goes.

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  90. Chromium isn’t supported on Linux Mint 20, saddened that I can’t use that browser. I’ve only upgraded one of my three Linux computers to 20, I’m keeping the others at 19.3 for the moment.

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  91. Perfeito! Funcionou corretamente TUDO. Somente tive que re-instalar a extensao “Transparent Panels”, o restante ficou excelente logo na reinicializacao do SO.
    Um excelente trabalho a todos!

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  92. Thanks dearly, I’ve been a fan since Maya… After upgrading to Ulyana cinnamon, USB tethering with my android phone no longer works. Cheers

    Reply

    1. Maybe you have to create a new connection. I’m not sure because I haven’t upgraded yet. I never upgrade immediately; I always wait at least 10-15 days after a new version has been available.

  94. My installation seemingly went fine; however, like Olaf, I also went into grub rescue on first startup. I’m not that savvy, but boot repair tool on live usb version of LM20 I had earlier prepared was successful in overcoming. Great job on latest version; love LM; thank you.

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  95. Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main amd64 mintupgrade all 2020.07.09
    Err:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main amd64 mintupgrade all 2020.07.09
    404 Not Found [IP: 208.77.20.11 80]
    E: Falhou ao buscar http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintupgrade/mintupgrade_2020.07.09_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 208.77.20.11 80]
    E: Impossível buscar alguns arquivos, talvez executar apt-get update ou tentar com –fix-missing?

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  96. is it possible to upgrade from mint 19.1 64bit cinnamon to 20 64bit cinnamon directly or do i have to updrade to 19,2 or 19,3 first?

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  97. Hi all and thank you for the wonderful work. I am running Mint 19.3 64 bit with Mate Desktop, I have an encrypted drive. When I key in the following command in terminal without quotes “mintupgrade check” I receive the following: —-> LVM Detected

    Your swap space is encrypted. An issue in Linux Mint 20 ‘Ulyana’ currently
    prevents the use of encrypted swap.

    This swap space will now be disabled.

    Do you want to continue? [y/n]:

    What are your suggestions for me with this issue?

    Thank You very much for your help.

    Reply

  99. I’ve followed the upgrade instructions and everything went just fine. I downgraded and deleted foreign packages. I have the sense of a brand new, fresh, installation and not of an upgrade one!
    Thanks again, Clem, for a great work!

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  101. HI, I just got this the way I like it. why do I want to change, then I’d have to load it all over again, “No, blanking way.”

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  102. Hi Clem,
    Upgrade worked correctly with no issues however, when I open my laptop I am presented with an image of my desktop and Mint appears unresponsive. If I type in my password the image changes to what I was using last and the laptop is then usable.
    Any ideas how to correct this?

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    2. sudo killall cinnamon-screensaver helps also
      Old bug, was absent a long time. I made an upgrade, too, no fresh install.

    3. Hi Clem,

      I will try a fresh install and let you know how it goes, however when the laptop (HP Folio 9470m) is on the docking station with a second monitor connected – it works fine!

  103. just upgraded to 20, no problems so far. followed the step by step instructions. laptop seems to be more responsive. did not take long at all. i dual boot with (yuck) win10

    follow the steps in order and you should be fine. good work LM teams.

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  104. Hi I had followed all the instructions (except being an expert in LM) but after broken packages etc I am now at this message in terminal when trying to install LM20 mint :
    $ apt policy mintupgrade
    mintupgrade:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 2020.07.09.2
    Version table:
    2020.07.09.2 500
    500 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main amd64 Packages
    500 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main i386 Packages

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  105. Now I am at Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. I followed the instructions in the blog upto mintupgrade download, after apt upgrade mintupgrade.
    The downloads were successful, 4.5 gb in my case.

    Then I ran mintupgrade upgrade. Instead of applying the downloaded 4.5 gb packages the download has started downloading 18.3 packages as follows.What am I missing?

    A snippet

    Get:62 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/upstream i386 Contents (deb) [44.9 kB]
    Get:63 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/import i386 Packages [7,817 B]
    Get:64 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/import amd64 Packages [9,044 B]
    Get:65 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/import amd64 Contents (deb) [24.6 kB]
    Get:66 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/import i386 Contents (deb) [17.5 kB]
    Get:67 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/backport i386 Packages [79.3 kB]
    Get:68 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/backport amd64 Packages [79.3 kB]
    Get:69 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/backport i386 Contents (deb) [252 kB]
    Get:70 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/backport amd64 Contents (deb) [252 kB]
    Get:71 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic i386 Contents (deb) [38.8 MB]
    Get:72 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security i386 Contents (deb) [48.6 MB]
    Get:73 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted i386 Packages [9,156 B]
    Get:74 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted amd64 Packages [9,184 B]

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    1. Hi Deepak,

      That’s normal, it just re-checks you’re up to date on 19.3 first (that’s done in case someone goes straight to “upgrade” without using “check” first).

  106. Well that was a rough upgrade, one I haven’t experienced in years. During the upgrade the terminal crashed and it wouldn’t start again – it looked like it was uninstalled. Even when I reinstalled it, it didn’t start up. So I installed LXTerminal and I completed the upgrade with it. And mid-upgrade the wifi broke and I had to use a wifi dongle to get back online. It ended up just fine once it finished and rebooted, but that was a wild ride. 😛

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  107. 1. Grub2 was corrupted and I had to restore it from an old live. Now it is only in text mode; with 19.3 was in graphics nice mode.

    2 This version creates files with umask 0002 mode which I do not like. In /etc/profile.d I created an umask.sh with the code: umask 022 but this does not work; I had to add that to my .bashrc

    3. The first Mint I used was 17 and still with 20 I had manually adapt /etc/pulse/default.pa to get the beep in Terminal, at each installation/upgrade.

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  108. Thank you for this wonderful operating system that has made my life so much easier since I started using it about a year ago! After upgrading to Linux Mint 20 (Cinnamon) I experience a minor problem: When logging in to my account, the screen goes black, then it is switched off entirely (full black) and it takes about 25 seconds before the desktop appears. Before the upgrade, the desktop was there in no time. The laptop concerned is quite old though, it has a 1st generation i5 cpu. (Packard Bell Easynote LJ75) Best, Anna

    Reply

    2. Dear Clem,

      thank you for your reply.

      I should have guessed it is an GPU problem.

      In fact it is an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 which has not worked well with Linux Mint in the past (1:30 boot time in default mode till login screen as compared to 21 seconds with nomodeset). It is a long and boring story ( https://bit.ly/3fc7GKW ) and certainly one that does not concern many users since the laptop is ten years old.

      So I guess there are more important and urgent issues than me having time to make a coffee during startup 🙂

      Best, Anna

    3. Does it have to do with the latest updates? Whatever the reason: The problem is gone – the screen is not switched off anymore after login and instead of 25 it now only takes 7 seconds before the desktop appears. 🙂

    4. Heh no.. I don’t think so. I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for you, it’s good news, but the fix affected multi-monitor handling, it shouldn’t impact your session starting time.

  109. Everything about the update went smooth, but post update – restoring what was lost – I can’t seem to add new souces…

    Trying to install NordVPN i went to https://support.nordvpn.com/Connectivity/Linux/1325531132/Installing-and-using-NordVPN-on-Debian-Ubuntu-Elementary-OS-and-Linux-Mint.htm and downloaded the provided file. (Don’t know what it’s called, but running it should add the repository – it always did in the past)
    Following the instructions – after having executed the above file various times – I run my sudo apt update but nothing have changed…
    So how do I get the repo added?

    Reply

    1. Found out how to get the repo info and add it manually, but it would be nice to know why it didn’t work the automatic way…

    2. This is my only problem at the moment, nord doesn’t work, and reinstalling it doesn’t help, just like Gosa said.

      I hope Nord will resolve this, Can Mint do anything about it? I regularly use nordvpn when away from home, so it’s kind of necessary.

    3. Hi Gosa,

      It works fine here. Downloading the deb and opening it with gdebi, installing it.. it adds the repository, no problem.

  111. For the “Remove Foreign Packages” step, I selected all of the packages, except for “opera” (12.16.1860-1linuxmint) (which is my e-mail client) and “adobereader-enu:i386” (9.5.5) (which I need for filing taxes).

    But the Foreign Packages tool says:

    “Additional software has to be removed:

    mountall=2.54ubuntu1
    libplymouth2=0.8.8-0ubuntu17
    opera=12.16.1860-1linuxmint”

    But I don’t want it to remove Opera!

    How can I remove foreign packages, but not remove Opera?

    Reply

    1. Just select libplymouth and remove it. For mountall, we’ve a little issue in mintsources to fix before you can remove it as well… you can leave it there in the meantime, it’s not a problem. As for opera, just leave it there as well. Once you re-add the opera repository (or reinstall opera from their website.. which should re-add the repository for you), opera will no longer be considered foreign.

  112. All installation went ok but when reinstalling applications celluloid install break update
    it result to have partly installed apps and for example cant login to encrypted volume (updating initramfs wont help)
    installation breaks due to incompatible version of `libmpv` (>=0.29.0) and underlying reason is incompatible version of `libpython3.8-stdlib` installation needs `3.8.2-1ubuntu1.1` but on mint after update from 19.3 to 20 resides `libpython3.8-stdlib=3.8.3-bionic`
    tried to install celluloid before update and after broken update, restart update without success
    please give me some feedback

    Reply

    1. Hi Peer,

      Where is 3.8.3-bionic coming from? It’s not the version that is in Bionic… is that from a PPA? Can you restore the snapshot and check its origin with “apt policy libpython3.8-stdlib”? That version is higher than what’s in Focal (20.04) so that’s why it fails.

      Once you identify the PPA, I’d suggest to remove it and purge the packages installed with it (using mintsources -> downgrade foreign packages).

    3. Hi Krzysztof,

      OK that explains the issue. I’d proceed as follows:

      – Restore the snapshot.
      – Remove this PPA and update the cache.
      – Use mintsources to downgrade python packages back to their original versions.
      – Check for remaining foreign packages to be removed in mintsources as well.

  113. Upgraded 3 laptops today, one dates from 2013 with a core duo cpu and only 4 gig of ram,, one from 2017 with 16 gig, and one from 2018.(also 16 gig) All were current with 19.3 and in daily use. The encrypted swap was unexpected, but when doing the mintupgrade check’ it reformatted the swap to unencrypted, and swap works on all three machines now.

    It was almost painless, but different for each laptop, so Thanks!

    There were no apps to downgrade, only remove, and I did only one laptop first, to make sure it’d still work after the removal, then the others.

    Thanks to all the Mint Team, y’all make a solid OS, I use debian on my servers, and Mint on my laptops. (XFCE4, of course)

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  114. I’m having a major problem here. I was upgrading and my computer turned off because the battery went dead. I tried to restore using Timeshift, but my computer entered a loop. I couldn’t open the Terminal, so I typed ctrl+alt+f1 and used the command “dpkg –configure -a”. I was able to make some repairs with that, but I still can’t get back to the state my computer was before. Timeshift is still in loop and is not restoring the system. What should I do now?

    Reply

    1. That’s weird, the upgrader should warn about not using AC power..

      In any case, you can boot from the live ISO and launch timeshift from there. It will scan your drives and find your snapshots.

  115. All main installation went ok but when reinstalling applications `celluloid` install break update
    it result to have partly installed apps and for example cant login to encrypted volume (updating initramfs wont help)
    installation breaks due to incompatible version of `libmpv` (>=0.29.0) and underlying reason is incompatible version of `libpython3.8-stdlib` installation needs `3.8.2-1ubuntu1.1` but on mint after update from 19.3 to 20 resides `libpython3.8-stdlib=3.8.3-bionic`
    tried to install celluloid before update and after broken update, restart update without success
    please give me some feedback

    Reply

  116. After upgrade and reboot, I got error “failed to detect available gpu” & “failed to start lightdm”

    Reply

    1. Ooh… that’s not good. Is it the newer kernel which doesn’t detect your GPU at all? Are you using an NVIDIA card without the NVIDIA drivers? If so, try to add nomodeset to the boot arguments to see if it helps.

    2. Thanks Clem for the reply

      Yes, the new kernel. I am using amd and amdgpu driver already installed. Already tried nomodeset, the problem still exists

    5. Updating amd driver to AMDGPU 20.20 from AMD fix my problem 😀

      Thank you, clem & team

  118. Upgrade check crashed while examining encrypted swap.

    if “swap” in entry[CRYPTTAB_OPTS]:
    IndexError: list index out of range

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  119. On both machines I tried to upgrade, I get the following error:

    Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
    libglib2.0-cli
    libgtk2.0-cli
    libappindicator0.1-cli
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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  120. Hint: If you have needrestart installed, the upgrade process is getting startet over and over. It has to be removed before upgrading.

    Reply

    2. Sorry, I may be wrong – just trying to upgrade another notebook and removed needrestart before. Same(?) behaviour:
      After installing and configuring all packages I am asked about my sudo pw again and then the services to restart are showed again and then package downloading and installing starts over until there’s no more disk space…
      I had over 7 GB before, that should be enough.

    3. Ah ok, the prompt is normal and it does indeed appear twice. The amount of space needed really depends on your current setup, this is something we might be able to predict though. We’ll see if we can test for this.

    4. Ok, no problem here after freeing diskspace – it seems to start again but it doesn’t. So my first installation was interrupted by myself, I have to be more patient…

  121. Do you need everything, or is this okay?

    1062 updated, 0 new will be installed, 0 to remove and 875 not updated.
    1 not fully installed or removed.
    It needs to download 0 B / 492 MB of files.
    216 MB of additional disk space will be used after this operation.
    do you wish to continue? [Y / n] s
    debconf: DbDriver “config”: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
    Setting base-passwd (3.5.47) …
    debconf: DbDriver “config”: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
    dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (–configure):
    installed base-passwd package post-installation script the thread returned an error with exit status 1
    Errors encountered while processing:
    base-passwd
    E: Sub-process / usr / bin / dpkg returned an error code (1)

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    Reply

    1. Hi Jacob,

      It doesn’t look like a package issue (i.e. not specific to base-passwd). It looks like a race condition. The fact that /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process is preventing APT from proceeding. You can have a look at https://serverfault.com/questions/175278/debconf-dbdriver-config-var-cache-debconf-config-dat-is-locked-by-another-p and tinker with it if you want. I’m not sure this will happen again though, so I’d suggest to restore your snapshot and try again.

  122. Dear Clem & everyone at MINT TEAM, Thank you for this upgrade to Linux Mint 20. My upgrade went pretty smoothly with no major errors or problems, only a few very minor warning messages. Although this upgrade process was slightly more complex in comparison to previous upgrades. The end result is just superb. THANK YOU for all your hard work making this happen. I’m sure I’m going to enjoy Mint 20 as much as Tricia. Once again a huge achievement that everyone at MINT can be justly proud of. SUPERB!! Congratulations!

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  123. Awesome upgrade experience! I’ll be honest, I was feeling really tempted to gamble with an early testing update, but I’m glad I waited…really appreciate all the work that went into making this smooth.

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  124. Banshee will not install on upgraded installation on test machine.
    Opening Banshee post upgrade, it shut itself after a second or so
    Using software manager i removed banshee and Rebooted PC
    Trying to install banshee from software manager it hangs with a spinning circle
    If I try sudo apt-get install banshee I get:-
    Package banshee is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source
    E: Package ‘banshee’ has no installation candidate

    Reply

    1. Hi Nigel,

      Sorry, Banshee is not in Ubuntu anymore and its PPA doesn’t support 20.04. Looking upstream at the Banshee project itself, it looks like it’s discontinued.

    2. Hi Clem

      Oh, that is a pity! Many thanks for getting back to me so quickly. much appreciated

    3. That’s a shame. Banshee was terrific! I loved how at one point you could actually purchase and download music from Amazon with a Banshee plugin. There are no other music apps that I know of native to Linux that can fully purchase professionally-recorded mainstream music. My day just got a little sadder.

  125. Just came to say that turn off everything else and don’t touch anything during installation.
    First time cos of Firefox it crashed, second time was after clicking new tab on the terminal.
    Time shift didn’t help and now I’m writing from my new installed 19.2 Linux Mint:)

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  127. Cannot get past the Linux login screen. Takes my password but returns to login screen.
    On boot up, 3 seconds in I get the following messages:
    [ 0.534029] Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed
    [ 0.644327] Integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate
    [ 0.644355] Integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate

    Help!

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    1. Ok, if you get to the login screen these aren’t relevant. After a failed login attempt, drop to console with CTRL+ALT+F2 and check the content of .xsession-errors.

  128. Dear Clem,
    Thank you for your help! I also noticed some error messages with lightdm and bluetooth marked as important.

    22:32:53 lightdm: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
    22:31:45 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0xfc2f
    22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_PR.CPU0._PDC due to previous error (AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE) (20190816/psparse-529)
    22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method \_PR.CPU0._PDC due to previous error (AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE) (20190816/psparse-529)
    22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE, While resolving operands for [Store] (20190816/dswexec-431)
    22:31:42 kernel: ACPI Error: Needed type [Reference], found [Integer] 000000006575d48e (20190816/exresop-66)

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  129. Hey there!

    I’m happily using Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon for some time and would love to upgrade, but I’m also using amdgpu-pro-20.10-1048554-ubuntu-18.04 for my video card. This is a must-have for me as without it my machine randomly crashes. I tried installing Ubuntu 20.04 before, but there was no compatible driver back then.

    My question is: Will the upgrade to Linux Mint 20 remove this driver?

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    2. I think the answer to your question is, that the upgrade process from 19.3 to 20 should leave your existing graphics card driver alone i.e. it wont change it, should be untouched. The driver you have now will be the same driver after the upgrade. I had this fear too but it was an unfounded worry. The driver remained as before i.e. a good working driver no problems after the upgrade completed.

  131. Hi, I have an Asus fx505. I upgraded from 19.3. Now my keyboard and USB ports don’t work. I cannot login. Funny enough though, the keyboard backlights are changing, which it hasn’t done before. Any help would be appreciated.

    Reply

    1. Hi Zaahir,

      This sounds like a kernel regression. Kernel 5.6 is available already if you want to give it a go.

  132. Hi there,

    I’ve upgraded from 19.3. I no longer have audio input and output. My audio settings show “headphones Cannon Lake PCH cAVS” and “Speaker Cannon Lake PCH cAVS” for output. For input it shows “Digital microphone cannot lake PCH cAVS” and “Headset Stereo microphone cannot lake PCH cAVS” for input.

    Reply

    1. Hi Zaahir,

      Please open a thread for this on the forum. You’re now running the new audio driver, and it may need some configuration. Most sound issues similar to this have been solved thus far.

  133. Did the upgrade. On reboot was faced with the grub failed to read something or other error and couldn’t boot into Linux, or Windows. I was going to do a fresh install at some point anyway so I did a fresh install (format /, use /home which is on an separate drive). Ended up with the same grub error. Used a google fix with the live CD to chroot and rebuild grub. Now everything is up and running. Only lost a couple programs along the way that are no longer compatible. Nothing major yet.

    Reply

    1. That image looks like a display driver problem? Check that your set up is using the appropriate display driver for your graphics card. The image is completely gabbled because the driver is not able to interpret the signal to the monitor correctly (gabbled signal), also worth checking your monitors settings are also correct. Check things like the frequency & refresh rate the monitor is set too. Ideally it should be 60hrtz for normal desktop usage.

  136. Ciao Clem, thanks for clarifications and suggestions.. BTW there is a simple method to enable the beeps? Even if in Terminal I select Sound- Acoustic warning, I do not hear any thing and have to do something like this:

    cd /etc/pulse/default.pa .
    echo “” >> default.pa

    echo “load-sample-lazy bell /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga” >> default.pa

    echo “load-module module-x11-bell sample=bell” >> default.pa
    echo “” >> default.pa

    pulseaudio -k

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    1. Angelo,

      It depends on your DE. We don’t support sound themes in Cinnamon, instead we use custom sound events. In MATE you can select the sound theme in the sound options.

    2. system sounds disabled by default in Xfce. menu . pulseaudio volume control > playback tab to enable.

  137. Hello, I got this for “inxi -r”, what should I do?

    Repos:
    No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gezakovacs-ppa-bionic.list
    1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-bionic.list
    1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/linuxmint tricia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
    6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
    1: deb http://deb.playonlinux.com/ maverick main
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/thomas_tsai-ubuntu-tuxboot-bionic.list
    1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/thomas.tsai/ubuntu-tuxboot/ubuntu bionic main
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.org.list
    1: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian focal non-free contrib
    2: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian focal non-free contrib

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  138. Hi,

    I have read all the comments on updating to 20, from 19.3

    Is it a safe and understandble process? I am running mint 19.3 on a mediaplayer that runs Kodi.
    I do not want to perform a clean update, since everything is working, specially Kodi with real-debrid and a couple of active video add-ons

    Reply

    1. The answer is YES! once you have pointed your system to the correct repositories for Ulyana Mint 20. The best part of the upgrade process is the “upgrade check” because you can run a simulated upgrade (nothing is changed or modified at this point) and see what effect the upgrade will have BEFORE you run the actual upgrade. This is definitely safe & understandable. Only once your entirely happy about all the changes which can potentially be made do you have to decide weather to proceed or not. If you then decide to run the actual upgrade then your committed i.e. no going back from that point on wards. Be patient as it can take as long as 40-45mins to complete the upgrade tasks involved. But in my case it was 100% worth the effort & the end result is wonderful. Hope that helps? Good luck.

  140. Did the upgrade. Ran for 4 hours. Then got Grub Rescue screen on reboot. Could not find the drive. Attempted every recovery I could find to no avail. Now I have to reload with 19.3 since no 20 image available.

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  141. Upgraded from 19.3, Dell XPS 13 9360, everything went smoothly, after restart just need to put back old APT files and edit one font config file and that’s all.

    Excellent job done again, thanks a lot Mint team!

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  142. Thanks for the update

    Upgrade w/o problems. However, Grub2 keeps saying Mint 19.3 instead of Mint 20.
    Mint 20 boots.
    I did sudo update-grub.

    Dual boot with Ubuntu.

    Reply

  143. Hi!
    One question: Why can’t you upgrade using the Update Manager, as it was for 19.3?
    Thank you!

    Reply

    1. Because it’s a complex update. Many things can go wrong or require action, so we need to be as close to the output as possible and not rely on toolkits or UIs like we do for simple upgrades.

  144. went through the commands, entering my pass here n there, noticed a few fails, then at long last, FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL cannot restart, cannot start, cannot whatever, FAIL
    Is this not odd?

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  145. Hola Clem
    Veo que contestás en varios idiomas y no enconté nada en Castellano
    Tengo LM 19.3 en dual boot con win10 y estoy bajando la linuxmint-20-xfce-64bit.iso, haré un DVD de arranque pero no se como debo proceder para actualizar a LM 20.
    Agradezco desde ya toda ayuda.
    Saludos desde Argentina

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  147. Problems. mintupgrade check ; no problems. On mintupgrade upgrade ; I get Error: failed to dist-upgrade etc.
    When I issue a sudo dpkg –configure -a ; I get a bunch of dependency problems, mostly related to python3. At one point reports: NameError: name ‘quiet’ is not defined
    When I sudo apt-get install -f ; it ends with problems processing python3 and python3-gi
    Before the check I switched to default repos, but still in the process saw old local repos being used.
    Thanks for possible help!

    Reply

    1. Antonio Calvo’s comment fixed my upgrade problem: deinstall hplip and hplip-data.

  148. Greetings! After upgrading to Linux Mint 20, I realized that I skipped step D3 (Download The Package Upgrades). Is my system still ok?

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  149. Hello,

    XnView MP 0.96.4 does not work anymore.

    When I start it via command the following message is displayed:
    qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
    Segmentation fault (core dumped)

    Deleteting the file “.config/qt5ct/qt5ct.conf” it works again but looks different as does VLC then e.g…

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  150. chrome didn’t work after upgrade to 20. Purged google-chrome-stable, deleted dirs ~/.config/google-chrome and ~/.cache/google-chrome. Reinstall chrome and it worked.

    PDF prints garbled on my epson inkjet. Curiously test page prints fine. Have not found solution yet.

    Reply

    1. Reinstall of Epson printer driver corrected the strange pdf issue. A case of 3rd party driver behaving strangely it seems.

  153. The upgrade worked well for the most part and my somewhat more complicated audio setup using JACK was quickly reestablished.

    The following problems exist:

    1. Trying to remove foreign packages also wants to remove mountall which fails.

    2. PyGTK is gone which kills applications like IDJC. Any idea how to get it back? I really need this for streaming.

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  154. Hi Clem,

    Maybe a more universal approach would be considered as a better option – to have basic setup colors (like we have now) and then give the user possibility to adjust/set colors to their liking?
    What it means is to give us, users a tool so that we could set colors/shades for ourselves.

    This way, if someone doesn’t like (even slightly) the colors they are using, he/she could quickly change it or adjust to the color they prefer.

    Best regards,
    AMartin

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  155. Hey, I’ve been trying to use the terminal to upgrade from 19.3 to Linux Mint 20, but – I keep getting the same error. (That is, unable to locate package “mintupgradetool.”)

    Reply

  156. e a steam ? vai ser afetada ? os jogos ? o computador vai manter as fotos, videos, documentos e etc… ? essas são as minhas unicas duvidas pois chegou uma atualização recente da steam atualizei e tive que reinstalar diversos programas e até a steam (amo jogar video-game) e tirar fotos

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  157. posso esperar a qualquer momento para atualizar para o linux 20 ?é obrigatorio ?

    Reply

  159. I have upgraded from 19.3 to 20 on my 6 years old laptop in 2 hours. Thank you so much for this easy upgrade instructions.

    Google Chromium browser is installed from Software Manager. No shortcut is created or application fails on launching. Has anyone installed Google Chromium after upgrading to Ulyana?

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  160. Hi, thanks for this upgrade, I’m assuming this will fix the wine problem and other stuff, also I think I’m using cinnamon this time even though my computer is a little older simply because I’m hoping with cinnamon you can put all the files in one spot when downloading apps and it’ll be easier to find files. anyway, gotta say mint runs 10x faster then windows especially windows ten so that’s a reason I’m sticking with it.

    I have mint 19.3 32-bit and that was a mistake i don’t know why I did that I guess just to save space but I have so many apps on here already and it’s still running fine so, 64 is fine if there’s just that. I need to do a fresh install though from a flash and I forgot how. if you could send me the link to that then I’d be grateful. Also if you could give some instructions on installing usb installer again onto the flash without wine then I could sure use that.

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  161. Hi Clem,

    In the Preferred Applications, it shows VLC for video but when I change it to SMPlayer, it doesn’t work. It allows me to choose SMPlayer from the list but then I close the window, go back into Preferred Applications and it shows VLC again. I can play videos in SMPlayer if I select it from the right-click menu “Open With” but not Preferred Applications.

    I never had this issue with 19.3. Is this a known bug or is there a way to fix this?

    Thanks.

    Reply

  162. Update…. was able to get the boot repair to run from the 19.3 dvd and recover grub. Now all is functioning as it should.

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  163. Ran upgrade and I get to the secure boot configuration screen and it stops there doesn’t proceed on to the password I let it sit overnight and it was the same this morning after 8 hours
    What do I need to do have never had this kind of problem before

    Reply

    1. Hi Robert,

      You mean secureboot rejects the OS? If so, if you can disable secureboot and you don’t need it or you don’t know why you need it, I’d suggest to do that. If it’s not an option I’d suggest to restore 19.3 from snapshot or do a fresh 20 install. Mint 20 works with secureboot but the key is the same as before, I’m not sure how to troubleshoot this at all.

    2. I had a similar problem upgrading. UEFI secure boot was enabled, and running the upgrade, near the end of it, when it tries to create the grub menu with the kernel(s), I get a series of errors and basically I was stuck in a loop, asking for a password and failing next. I wonder if it was the secure boot password, but I assumed it was only my user password. Since I couldn’t go past that point, I ended up killing the process and got an unstable system.
      I finally decided to disable secure boot and make a clean install, and I did it without any problem and without losing anything. Everything was perfect at the end.
      Perhaps it would be a good idea to advise the users at the beginning of the upgrade process to disable secure boot, or ask for the secure boot password at the beginning of the process, when the users are more attentive to what is happening on the screen.
      Just an idea… Can’t reproduce the process now to see exactly what went wrong, and if it was my mistake.

  164. Upgraded a remote machine over SSH as soon as 20 was released, just by editing sources.list, updating and full-upgrading. Works smoothly, except wor the expected problem with hplip + HP printing software + python3.
    Now, how to downgrade and delete foreign packages from the command line?

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    1. ps. The only drawback that i’ve run into after manual migration is that XApps applet now shows a mix of icons from different themes. Network Manager takes icons from the system theme (as specified in Desktop Settings), while the others are of some primitivized theme, (apparently hardcoded). Coudl it be possible to set all Xapps icons to the system theme?

    3. It’s not possible yet.. well, not with a single command or without a home-made script. It’s in our roadmap but it hasn’t been implemented yet.

    4. With Mint-Y the XApps panel looks as designed, all the icons are consistent. The problem is present only when Gnome theme is set for icons, and only with NM icon.
      http://iourine.msk.su/tmp/screenshot_2020-07-12_21-08-24.png
      Definitely not the most important problem to fix on it. But as to me, I was quite happy with mate-indicator-applet, and see no need for the replacement. What is more important, stability and common-sense conservatism are what Mint and Mate are valued for, especially among old-style users. Especially for elderly people – the thing is to adjust look and feel as close as possible to the good old Win95 style. Any novelties are strictly discouraged and make Mint similar to any other distributions, like Ubuntu.
      BTW, yesterday I upgraded a similar machine and got the consistent icon set. The worst kind of problem, a fluctuating one…

    5. As to downgrading/deleting forein packages, the culprit is that software-sources cannot be run remotely (even by sudo in a remote terminal window over VNC or SSH session), one has to run it locally.
      Fortunately, in my typical installation there are no packages to downgrade, and those to be deleted are just occupying space on the disk, waiting for me to go there by feet.

    6. Try this: : “sudo rm /usr/share/python3/runtime.d/hplip-data.rtupdate”
      and then continue upgrade with “sudo apt-get -f install”

  165. Hi Clem,
    I updated to version 20 two weeks ago by simply editing the source list and using the update manager. Everything worked fine. In version 20, however, I have some problems with removable devices (hdd and usb sticks): the new system does not always mount and open them. It seems that even the options chosen in disks and in ‘Removable Devices’ are not always followed. This has never happened in previous versions. And this also happens after the fresh installation. How can I solve the problem? Thanks for the tips.

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  166. Sorry – install failed here too. Loads of python issues sprang up. Can you help me understand how to fix please?

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    You might want to run ‘apt –fix-broken install’ to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    compizconfig-settings-manager : Depends: python (= 2.7)
    Depends: python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~)
    crudini : Depends: python
    gimp : Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
    gimp-plugin-registry : Depends: python
    gtk-doc-tools : Depends: python:any (>= 2.7~)
    hplip : Depends: python3 (= 2.7.5-5~)
    libnss-systemd : Depends: systemd (= 237-3ubuntu10.41)
    libpam-systemd : Depends: systemd (= 237-3ubuntu10.41)
    mintmenu : Depends: python (>= 2.4)
    Depends: python (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-apt : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-cairo : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-chardet : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-compizconfig : Depends: python (= 2.7)
    python-configobj : Depends: python (>= 2.7)
    Depends: python (< 2.8)
    python-crypto : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-dbus : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-enchant : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-funcsigs : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-gi : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-gi-cairo : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7~)
    python-glade2 : Depends: python (= 2.7)
    python-gobject-2 : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-gtk2 : Depends: python (= 2.7)
    Depends: python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~)
    python-gtksourceview2 : Depends: python (= 2.7)
    python-gtkspellcheck : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-iniparse : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-ldb : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-liblarch : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-mock : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-notify : Depends: python (>= 2.7)
    Depends: python (< 2.8)
    python-parted : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-pbr : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-pip : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-pkg-resources : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-pycurl : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-pygraphviz : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-samba : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-setproctitle : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7~)
    python-six : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-tdb : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-tk : Depends: python (>= 2.7)
    Depends: python (< 2.8)
    python-wxgtk3.0 : Depends: python (= 2.7~)
    Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-wxversion : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python-xdg : Depends: python (= 2.7)
    Depends: python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~)
    python-xlib : Depends: python:any (= 2.7.5-5~)
    python3-apt : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-brlapi : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-cairo : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-cffi-backend : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-crypto : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-cups : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-dbus : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-dev : Depends: python3 (= 3.6.7-1~18.04) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-gi : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-gi-cairo : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-icu : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-lazy-object-proxy : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-markupsafe : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-netifaces : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-openshot : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pam : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-parted : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pil : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-protobuf : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-psutil : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pycurl : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pyqt5 : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pyqt5.qsci : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pyqt5.qtopengl : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pyqt5.qtsql : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pyqt5.qtsvg : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-reportlab-accel : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-setproctitle : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-sip : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-systemd : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-tinycss : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-tornado : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-uno : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-wrapt : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-yaml : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-zmq : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    rhythmbox-plugins : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    samba-common-bin : Depends: python
    xed-common : Depends: python
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt –fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to dist-upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.

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  167. Just tried loading Mint 20 onto my dual screen PowerSpec from scratch writing over Windows 10 and Mint 19.3. Wanted to go pure Mint 20. When I booted up, both screens went live. Entered password on the one screen, waited, then both screen went blank and nothing happens afterward. Have I bricked this PC?

    Using a laptop with 20 on it right now, but sure hope to get the desktop back.

    Any ideas anyone?

    Reply

    1. Hi Paul,

      It’s probably just a Cinnamon issue, make sure to upgrade cinnamon-desktop to 4.6.3 in case it fixes that. Also check other window-managers to see if they work (metacity for instance). Worst-case scenario, nothing is bricked here, you can always rollback to your earlier snapshot either from 20, or if you can’t from the live ISO.

  168. Updates were sent to fix multi-monitor in Cinnamon (in cases where a display is disabled by default.. like for instance when you use a docked laptop).

    Updates were also sent to fix missing icons in the MATE application menu (this only affected some languages).

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    1. This is an embarrassing question, but how do I get the updates for multi-monitor? Download a new iso file? BTW, I am running Mint 20 Cinnamon.

    3. Clem,

      Problem is if I boot into 20, both my screens are blank so there’s no access to the update manager or anything else. I’ve gone back to 19.3. Everything works there. I’m thinking I have to wait for Mint 20.1 for some of these dual screen issues to be fixed.

    4. You could have dropped to console with CTRL+ALT+F2 and upgraded from there with “apt update; apt dist-upgrade”.

  169. The system works very nicely. I have installed the Linuxmin on a Ryzen 7 3700x system plus SSD: WD Black 500GB. Also on the 19.3 version a certain benchmark with Octave 5.2.0. does not work. It has nothing to do with Linuxmint.

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  170. Mint 20 looks nice. but would it be possible to change the text color to pure black instead of low contrast grey with the next update? It’s hard on the eyes.

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  171. Mint 19.3 Cinnamon here. Have been using Mint for longer than I can remember.
    Problem is I can’t do any kind of backup as my drives are all full.
    How risky is it to just wing it?

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    1. It will need space to download and upgrade, so without space it will fail. Also, I wouldn’t recommend upgrading without a snapshot. It’s perfectly smooth for some people, not smooth at all for other, it really depends on what’s installed on the computer, the hardware etc..

  172. I’ve walked away 3 times so far to let it run and come back being asked for my password to continue – with no other choice than to enter my password. So do I really have to sit here and watch No medium found scroll across my screen 3 million times if I want to see this complete today? The answer is of course but I’m not happy about it.

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  173. Successfully upgraded my HP desktop on the third try. It is very important to (a) perform a full Timeshift snapshot before starting, and (b) read and follow the upgrade instructions closely, specifically the fourth bullet in “F. Notes” about Timeshift and not clicking “Next” until the disclaimer message appears. If your computer fails to boot after the upgrade, reboot with install media then use Timeshift to recover the pre-boot snapshot and retry.

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  174. jajajajaja i love the efficient of the work in linux mint, reading about the fix of the icons…. and the upgrade manager notify my about the fixed!. that is a good job! 🙂

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  175. Anyone else experiencing issues with screen unlock? I’ve got my Power Management set to lock the screen when I close the lid on battery power; when I open it back up, it’s as if my desktop is right there but I can’t interact with anything. Clicking does nothing; it seems that I have to press my power button to get the login prompt to appear.

    Otherwise, no issues after upgrading yesterday.

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    1. Was same for me – after close lid notebook wake with my desktop and locking screen was “invisible”. I should type password on blind.
      Today land update for cinnamon-desktop 4.6.3 and problem is solved.

  177. Just updated. This is beautiful. Thank you all so much for an amazing OS. Been using Mint since v17.

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  178. I have been using Linux Mint successfully for nearly ten years, upgrading with each new release without issue. I have been attempting to upgrade to Linux Mint 20 (from 19.3 Tricia) for the past two days, following instructions on this page about how to install, and each time, my terminal returns the information below (I do not know how to proceed at this point):

    TERMINAL ERROR MESSAGE I AM RECEIVING:

    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    libssl1.1 : Breaks: python-httplib2 (< 0.11.3-1) but 0.9.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 is to be installed
    python3-mako : Breaks: python-mako (< 1.1.0+ds1-1) but 1.0.7+ds1-1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
    !! Exiting.

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  179. Hello, my update was going smoothly up to running the check. When i simulate an upgrade i get the following error:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    I noticed similar posts about this issue but wanted to be sure i was handling it correctly. My output for inxi -r is:
    Repos:
    No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
    6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner

    I'm still fairly new to this process, do i need to update/remove python-gi to continue with the update?

    Thank you for your help

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  180. First I want to thank for the tutorial, everything is working as it should for my first time doing something more complex on linux.

    The reaso for my question is: My computer is booting just fine but before the login screen apear I’m reciving this message “[0.375947] Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed”, so I need to do something or I can just keep using my computer without worrie?

    Reply

    1. Update the initramfs with “update-initramfs”. You’ll need the -u and -k options. See the manpage for those.

  182. System: Kernel: 5.3.0-62-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.6
    wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal

    Still, it succeeded!
    “Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal”
    Thanks 😀

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  183. I tried upgrading yesterday and failed. Used timeshift to go back to 19.3. I couldn’t read proper letters and characters and symbols on any windows as they were replaced by squares containing numbers and letters. Someone suggested problems in unicode locale, everything was fine, was using en_US. I backed up my files, did a fresh install LM 20 cinnamon today, noticed a lot of distributed fonts are not working, showing those exact symbols. I was probably using one of the unsupported fonts and wasn’t aware of it. Everything good now.

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  184. Thanks so much for all your great work.

    I encountered a problem with the LM-20 Beta, as well as the upgrade I did yesterday. In short, my display is ‘snowy’, like the monitor is out of sync with the signal (or refresh rate) emitted from the video card. It’s so bad that the display is unusable – I had to back out of the upgrade with Timeshift (which worked very well, thank you). I’m wondering if anyone else reported this.

    I’ve considered testing this with another monitor, but (so far as I know) I’d have to go through another lengthy upgrade (or can I easily re-instate the LM-20 image via Timeshift?).

    I must apologize for not reporting this when I attempted to test the Beta version.

    My motherboard is an older ASUS M2N68-VM with integrated Nvidia® Geforce®7Series.

    Thanks for whatever info you can provide.

    Reply

    1. Same problem here.
      I have an ASUS laptop with AMD A10-9620P RADEON R5 cpu.
      No problem with Mint 19.

    2. Clem, I’m zeroing in on hardware diagnostics for this problem. My next step is to flash the bios.

      However, I encountered an issue with MEMTEST86 on the LM-20 Beta disk. Running it on two distinct systems, the memtest86 program freezes. The version displayed is 5.01.

      I tried running the (supposedly) same program from two older dvds, one from LM-18 and one from LM-19, and both copies worked fine. The version they displayed was also 5.01. Go figure.

      Thanks so much for your great work.

    3. Clem, I’ve run memory tests and verified that my memory is functioning properly. I’ve also flashed the BIOS with the latest firmware.

      Since my motherboard has on-board video, and uses a part of main memory for its display, I thought something else was writing into that same memory, creating the hosed display. So I plugged in a spare video card, and it still yields the same behavior – bad rendering. For the time, at least, I will stay on 19.3. However, I’m hoping you (or someone in support) can point me in a direction that will resolve the issue for LM-20.

      Thanks ever so much, — Dave

  185. Greetings! While upgrading from Linux Mint 19.3 to 20, I have unmet dependencies related to “python3 and python-gi. May I have a solution to this issue please?

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  187. Hi folks. Everything goes fine until the Microsoft ttf EUA pops up and hangs. No where to click. I’ve left it there for 3 hours or more and still nothing.

    Reply

    2. Same Problem. Microsoft ttf EUA pops up and hangs. No where to click. Is there a solution for it?

  188. Hi everyone,

    We’ve a headless fix coming up for mintupgrade (for people running it outside of any DE).

    We’re also moving the upgrade tutorial to the User Guide. This makes it easier to follow, and it allows us to add hints, notes, warnings.

    We’re adding a troubleshooting section to it too so you can find answers to some of the often asked questions we’ve had in this blog and solutions to common problems.

    We’re also adding more details on how to address broken boot with boot repair and how to restore snapshots.

    And last but not least we’re adding a step in the preparation of the upgrade to purge 3rd party sources and PPAs. We think they’re responsible for some of the package conflicts some of you are experiencing.

    One common problem we’ve seen here seems to affect “python-gi”. I’d like people who experience this problem to tell us which PPAs they’re using (the full URL, so we can check their content), if any.

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    1. hai clem, when last night i’m doing upgrade,,i remove python-gi from synaptic package manager, and then the upgrade running back..

      my comment above

    2. No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
      1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia main upstream import backport
      2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
      3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
      4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
      5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
      6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
      Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list
      1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main

  191. Upgrade ran flawlessly but took a long time
    I just let it do it’s thing. I had to enter my password a few times. Everything looks good and seems faster
    Thanks for all your hard work

    Wy Elkins
    Clyo, GA
    USA

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  192. Hi All,

    I successfully upgraded from 19.3 today, yay! Only weird issue was that gnome-pie’s tray icon is now invisible, anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Thank you very much.

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  195. A, mostly, successful upgrade. Some observations:
    1) I didn’t have an /etc/apt/sources.list file. I had to move /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list to that file before mintupgrade would proceed.
    2) My MySQL server package upgrade went awry. There was a permissions issue accessing a file in /proc. The result was that MySQL wasn’t configured properly. I ran “dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-8.0” to fix this.
    3) On booting after the upgrade I noticed a few “initramfs decoding failed” messages. The system did actually boot and I was able to fix the messages with “update-initramfs -u -k ….” for my installed kernel version.

    I was cautious about 3rd-party repositories and PPAs to the extent that I removed applications installed from them and then disabled them in Software Sources before the upgrade. I had to evaluate whether I wanted to use those repositories and PPAs in Linux Mint 20 and I re-enabled only a few of them.

    The system seems to be running OK but I get the impression that GUI applications are slower to start and shutdown than they were in Linux Mint 19.3.

    Reply

    1. Thanks Neil,

      I’ll check #1. For #3 it’s only cosmetic.
      We also added a section to do exactly what you did for the PPAs.

  196. “It is recommended to use the default Linux Mint mirror before upgrading”

    This needs to be added to the top of the Upgrade instructions. Not only is it necessary for the latest version, but the upgrade may not be available at all, or receive an error. Also, downgrading packages should be done prior to the start of the install.

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  197. Thank you Clem for the Chromium installation instructions.

    I have purged and install Chromium. No shortcut or icon is created. Chromium says it is an empty package on Software Manager and the same using this command: apt-get install chromium-browser. I have the screenshot for each issue. Yet, unable to attach them to this message.

    Reply

    1. Hi,

      after several days, apparently these bugs remain:
      * waking up from standby, the WiFi can’t reconnect. Syslog says “NAT-PMP: Can’t initialize libnatpmp -> CONNECTERR”. Fixed not by service restarts, but by reboot.
      * after some reboots, the touchpad’s tap-to-click is disabled. and if enabled, doesn’t want to stick. Fixed normally by reboot.

      Best regards

  198. To Clem & his team at Linux Mint,

    Frankly I’m overwhelmed by the terminal “mintupgrade upgrade”
    tool Clem & Co. have made available to all of us users of Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE “Tricia”.

    Seriously, everybody, listen up! Pay heed to the instructions Clem put out! Here’s why:

    This morning, on my first attempt (on an ASUS Intel Core i5 2011 Notebook PC running 64-bit LM 19.3 Xfce) I strode straight into the update process without, beforehand, checking my Update Manager to re-set the default Software Sources settings. Of course, this meant this ASUS PC merely re-booted into “Tricia” 19.3.

    The fact that bugged me was, yesterday, I had run a clean install of a downloaded ULYANA LM 20 off a 4GB USB 2.0 on a cheapo HP Stream 13 Notebook PC that had worked perfectly.

    So at the end of today I decided to try again on this 2011 ASUS A53S Notebook PC once again using Update Manager. But this time my first step was to re-set Update Manager’s Software Sources to original factory defaults, and it worked like a charm

    Warning, the update from LM 19.3 Xfce to Linux Mint 20 Xfce “Ulyana” took exactly 35 minutes on this 2011 ASUS PC. Modern computers will surely take far less time. You also need to be sitting in front of your PC during the reams and reams of lines scrolling down your terminal screen at high speed as there are one or two occasions where you are required to enter your root password or enter a Yes/No response to continue update.

    I am absolutely staggered how Clem and his team have managed to pull of this extraordinary feat, amazing!

    Best of luck to all who heed this advice, Linux Mint is and has always been the gold standard for Linux distros.
    daibak

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  199. I have the problems with installing too. It seems mostly with Python. At first attempt I decided that the problem was due to the Anaconda scientific package. But the problem appears again after I deleted Anaconda (after using timeshift restore).
    I copied some messages from terminal which I assume related to the problem. (So, I replaced a lot of other messages by vertical dots here)
    Also, may be the problem related to the HP printer driver: hplip. (my version of hplip, hplip-data is 3.17.10)

    (I can not paste my output from terminal here due to the site protection)

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    1. Also the problem is:

      dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libharfbuzz-dev:amd64:
      libharfbuzz-dev:amd64 depends on libharfbuzz0b (= 2.6.4-1ubuntu4); however:
      Version of libharfbuzz0b:amd64 on system is 1.7.2-1ubuntu1.
      libharfbuzz-dev:amd64 depends on gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 (= 2.6.4-1ubuntu4); however:
      Version of gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0:amd64 on system is 1.7.2-1ubuntu1.
      .
      .
      .

      dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-gi:
      python3-gi depends on python3 (<= 3.8~); however:
      Package python3 is not configured yet.
      python3-gi depends on python3:any; however:
      Package python3 is not configured yet.

  200. Well, guys, just updated to 20 (Ulyana). Thanks all of the Linux Mint Team for your time, efforts and the best OS for everyone who wants to be free 🙂

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  202. So you moved the upgrade tutorial and apparently the links but keep sending me here?
    Not what I’ve come to expect from Linux.

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  205. Yes, it works, on my case i get some error on start, it show to me “cabel not connected” but it was mismatch between network connection and mac dresses, i have mote that one network connection. I fixed this via network panel and changed back correct mac to correct network and after that everything works just perfect !

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  206. Ran the upgrade everything seemed to go fine. But after rebooting all I get is a black screen. Why and what can I do to correct?

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  208. I threw caution to the wind (it was Friday so what the hell) and upgraded. Pretty much flawless….no complaints here.

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  209. My wife’s name is Tricia… Is it safe to upgrade, or will my home folder be thrown out on the street?

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  211. Disappointed I can’t use encrypted swap. First systemd destroys home-partition security and now this. Does no one care about security anymore? What was the point of getting rid of snap then. I’ll probably use this opportunity to find another distro that better suits me.

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  212. Hi LinuxMint,
    Success!!!!!
    I am very happy with the LinuxMint-20 version. I’ve upgraded from 19.3 to 20.
    Works great. God bless you.

    Thank You

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  213. on my notebook it took approx. 3 h but finished perfectly, no trouble with D5, D6, thank you very much to your team for excellent service!

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  214. I initially thought to delay, but printed off the steps and headed into upgrade waters. This is long and complex. Currently 2 hours with a non EU / US tier connection – i.e. slower than many of you.
    Point 4.1 ..reboot should be arriving shortly.
    I am somewhat concerned about an older relative – less tech savvy and on a far, far slower connection. Getting them to just go to19.3 is an incomplete 7month mission.
    Whew – it just finished as I was typing this on my other laptop. Now we get to see what broke (main ‘production’ rig)…. And you just look at that – seems fine. It will take a while to test every application, but a fantastic upgrade as we have grown accustomed to with Mint!

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  217. Hello
    I got this error when updating, what should I do?
    I have a system in Russian, so everything is written in Russian, sorry)

    Будут установлены следующие дополнительные пакеты:
    pure-ftpd-common
    Следующие пакеты будут обновлены:
    pure-ftpd-common
    Обновлено 1 пакетов, установлено 0 новых пакетов, для удаления отмечено 0 пакетов, и 1139 пакетов не обновлено.
    Установлено или удалено не до конца 2 пакетов.
    Необходимо скачать 0 B/147 kB архивов.
    После данной операции объём занятого дискового пространства возрастёт на 49,2 kB.
    Предварительная настройка пакетов …
    (Чтение базы данных … на данный момент установлено 524483 файла и каталога.)
    Подготовка к распаковке …/pure-ftpd-common_1.0.49-4_all.deb …
    Распаковывается pure-ftpd-common (1.0.49-4) на замену (1.0.46-1build1) …
    dpkg: ошибка при обработке архива /var/cache/apt/archives/pure-ftpd-common_1.0.49-4_all.deb (–unpack):
    не удалось открыть «/usr/share/doc/pure-ftpd-common/README.Authentication-Modules.gz.dpkg-new»: Нет такого файла или каталога
    Отчёт apport не записан, так как получено сообщение о проблеме в локальной системе
    При обработке следующих пакетов произошли ошибки:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/pure-ftpd-common_1.0.49-4_all.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    + An issue was detected during the upgrade, running the upgrade in manual mode….
    Чтение списков пакетов… Готово
    Построение дерева зависимостей
    Чтение информации о состоянии… Готово
    Вы можете запустить «apt –fix-broken install» для исправления этих ошибок.
    Следующие пакеты имеют неудовлетворённые зависимости:
    pure-ftpd : Зависит: pure-ftpd-common (= 1.0.49-4) но 1.0.46-1build1 уже установлен
    E: Неудовлетворённые зависимости. Попытайтесь выполнить «apt –fix-broken install», не указывая имени пакета (или указав решение).

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.

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  218. Install worked perfectly on an Intel© Core™ i5-8259U CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 (And I’m a Linux Noob 🙂

    Many thanks to Clem and the Team for your dedication and hard work!

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  219. Upgraded. CPU load up 200%, CPU temp up 50%. Found “tracker-extract” and similar agency-malware-sounding tasks at the top. It turns out to be a metadata indexer. Whoever wrote this did not think the naming through. Gave me a hell of a fright. My first though was *((&^%# I am now hacked, kill (internet), kill (all network), kill (this thing, NOW, before it encrypts my data).

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  220. hi,

    upgrade went through mostly fine,
    at one time xscreensaver started and claimed any try to login as wrong. Got around that from a text console with killall xscreensaver.
    After reboot, grub claimed “grub_file_filters” missing. A rescue boot stick, chroot and grub-install, update-grub fixed that, which was a googled solution.
    Back in the Desktop (xfce4) tap-to-click was disabled, reenabled that.
    Works for me.

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  221. I am sucessfully upgraded from 19.3 to 20.
    It went smoothless, without any issues.

    The only thing i had to afterwards was to reinstall kodi.

    The process took nearly 2 hours on a minix mediaplayer.

    Mint Team: Outstanding work from your side. This is, from my point of view, the most smoothest upgrade ever.

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  222. Upgrade went smoothly but one irritation. Why is necessary for upgrade to remove Additional Repositories? In my case these were Skype and Vivaldi. I was able to fix this for Skype by using Synaptic to remove skypeforlinux (but not configuration) and then installing it. For Vivaldi I did this at terminal:
    sudo add-apt-repository ‘deb https://repo.vivaldi.com/archive/deb/ stable main’
    I think mintupgrade should give the choice whether or not to remove Additional Repositories.

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  223. Hello there!
    Mintupgrade check has stated that an issue pevents Linux mint 20 to use encrypted swap and that it will be disabled.
    Will that get restored after mintupgrade check is completed? I don’t want to upgrade because i got slow internet currently and the resources to download are too big.

    Reply

    1. No. You can try to re-encrypt it on the other side, but there’s a bug upstream which prevents you to boot every time cryptsetup-initramfs is updated. Ubuntu hasn’t provided home directory encryption in years so they’re not focused on this issue. We found about it quite late during the BETA phase and we don’t have a fix it either for it yet.

    2. I applied a system snapshot and it is encrypted again. If I’ll upgrade in the future i’ll think about it. Thanks!

  224. So, this is me not panicking. Made system image backup, timeshift backup, separate home-dir backup. Performed the upgrade according to instructions. Went well. But after rebooting, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left. I can switch to tty1 and login as root, but “startx” doesn’t work as well. So I used command line timeshift to restore the last snapshot. That went pretty well, except now I have to enter my password after reboot because something wants to run “/bin/sh” with elevated privileges?!

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    2. @Clem: no, I can’t take a screenshot because I never get to the GUI. It seems the boot completes fine, but no X-Server starts up. As I said, the cursor blinks top left on the empty text-mode screen. I can switch with ALT-F1 and log in as root and get to the shell. But cannot start the xserver there or do anything meaningful. I have a pic of the error from startx, but that’s all.

    3. Oh no, I mean after you restored, you said some password prompt interrupted the boot sequence?

      For the display issue, what drivers are you using and with what card?

    4. The password issue went away after the second reboot… no idea what that was. I use an AMD RX 570 and it was the kernel driver, I think… but I did install the opencl-part of the amdgpu-pro driver. That’s for sure. What I’m not 100% sure now is whether I also installed the display part of amdgpu-pro… I had to try several times and tried different options.

  225. There are several HDDs in my tower and root is on a 16GB SSD, but it ran out of space during the upgrade and I wasn’t knowledgeable enough to get around the problem, as it was impossible (for me) to delete anything. I had to resort to a normal installation. Luckily I’d already made an install USB. May I suggest mintupgrade checks for needed space and possible even helps delete some cruft during the process. Thanks for Mint! Been using it since pretty much the beginning.

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  226. Everything went fine and smoothly with all of my machines so far, with one still taking its time (the amount and size of applications installed from system repositories is of course what eventually defines the complete duration…).

    One question:

    In step “Delete foreign packages”, how do I know which packages I should “want to keep”? The list is huge, even after editing (‘bionic’ -> ‘focal’ where applicable) and reinstating the /etc/apt/sources.list.d repository entries which were backed up during the upgrade, and I only recognize very few of them to represent applications I did install from third-party locations in the past.

    (How does this step connect to the repositories backed-up from /etc/apt/sources.list.d? Perhaps that could be something worth adding to the upgrade tutorial?)

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    1. Hi Rob,

      Package names change from release to release, some simply aren’t relevant anymore. As a rule of thumb, if something isn’t in the repository it can be safely removed… unless of course it’s something you added yourself and you want to keep.

    2. I read the upgrade instructions, what a lot of futzing around, Backup this Restore that, do another backup, reboot, restore, reboot again. I think I’ll just do a fresh install of 20 and redo my PPAs afterwards. It’s not as if I keep my personal Data on the Same partition as the System Files.

  230. @ clem: the error

    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi ( < 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed

    is fixed with apt remove python gi (without the -s strangely)

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    1. Thanks.. what do you mean without -s?

      I’d like to understand why it happens in the first place before automating this workaround for everybody..

  231. Getting the message: Another instance of Timeshift is creating a snapshot.
    Please wait a few minutes and try again.

    Waited and waited. Rebooted 2x. Still same message

    Reply

    1. hi Rick,

      Check your timeshift settings, disable planned snapshots. Kill all timeshift processes eventually if necessary.

  232. Attempted to upgrade but received the following error during the download process:

    Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4 [34.0 kB]
    Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4
    Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4 [34.0 kB]
    Err:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4
    File has unexpected size (4848 != 33956). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]
    Hashes of expected file:
    – SHA256:ba522843f99d2c0a1d9789ee726d437441e27d761d47fc2ff422a743cad5f9a1
    – SHA1:3b52588b47e005659ca5e12fa2bf1566d95a9213 [weak]
    – MD5Sum:1c466ea6fb2b7287efd24cf30faa1575 [weak]
    – Filesize:33956 [weak]
    E: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/f/folder-color-switcher/folder-color-switcher_1.4.4_all.deb File has unexpected size (4848 != 33956). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]
    Hashes of expected file:
    – SHA256:ba522843f99d2c0a1d9789ee726d437441e27d761d47fc2ff422a743cad5f9a1
    – SHA1:3b52588b47e005659ca5e12fa2bf1566d95a9213 [weak]
    – MD5Sum:1c466ea6fb2b7287efd24cf30faa1575 [weak]
    – Filesize:33956 [weak]
    E: Some files failed to download

    Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue?

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    2. This is what I thought. But I am continuing to receive the error 11 hours later.

    3. I even tried to install the two packages directly, and receive the error:

      folder-color-switcher
      folder-color-switcher mint-meta-cinnamon

      sudo apt install folder-color-switcher folder-color-switcher mint-meta-cinnamon
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      The following NEW packages will be installed:
      folder-color-switcher mint-meta-cinnamon
      0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
      Need to get 34.0 kB/39.1 kB of archives.
      After this operation, 456 kB of additional disk space will be used.
      Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4 [34.0 kB]
      Err:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4
      File has unexpected size (4848 != 33956). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]
      Hashes of expected file:
      – SHA256:ba522843f99d2c0a1d9789ee726d437441e27d761d47fc2ff422a743cad5f9a1
      – SHA1:3b52588b47e005659ca5e12fa2bf1566d95a9213 [weak]
      – MD5Sum:1c466ea6fb2b7287efd24cf30faa1575 [weak]
      – Filesize:33956 [weak]
      E: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/f/folder-color-switcher/folder-color-switcher_1.4.4_all.deb File has unexpected size (4848 != 33956). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]
      Hashes of expected file:
      – SHA256:ba522843f99d2c0a1d9789ee726d437441e27d761d47fc2ff422a743cad5f9a1
      – SHA1:3b52588b47e005659ca5e12fa2bf1566d95a9213 [weak]
      – MD5Sum:1c466ea6fb2b7287efd24cf30faa1575 [weak]
      – Filesize:33956 [weak]
      E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with –fix-missing?

    5. I tried this again and I’m still receiving the same error. Any additional thoughts?

    6. apt install folder-color-switcher
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      The following NEW packages will be installed:
      folder-color-switcher
      0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
      Need to get 34.0 kB of archives.
      After this operation, 444 kB of additional disk space will be used.
      Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4 [34.0 kB]
      Err:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana/main amd64 folder-color-switcher all 1.4.4
      File has unexpected size (4848 != 33956). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]
      Hashes of expected file:
      – SHA256:ba522843f99d2c0a1d9789ee726d437441e27d761d47fc2ff422a743cad5f9a1
      – SHA1:3b52588b47e005659ca5e12fa2bf1566d95a9213 [weak]
      – MD5Sum:1c466ea6fb2b7287efd24cf30faa1575 [weak]
      – Filesize:33956 [weak]
      E: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/f/folder-color-switcher/folder-color-switcher_1.4.4_all.deb File has unexpected size (4848 != 33956). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]
      Hashes of expected file:
      – SHA256:ba522843f99d2c0a1d9789ee726d437441e27d761d47fc2ff422a743cad5f9a1
      – SHA1:3b52588b47e005659ca5e12fa2bf1566d95a9213 [weak]
      – MD5Sum:1c466ea6fb2b7287efd24cf30faa1575 [weak]
      – Filesize:33956 [weak]
      E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with –fix-missing?

  234. Well done to all involved! Updated my Ryzen 3600 desktop in less than an hour, and my Celeron N3350 laptop (took much longer), both with no issues at all.

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  235. Wow. The upgrade has seemed to enhance the look of the display. Everything looks so much smoother and polished. Thanks again for your work. Easy update. Great OS

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  236. Not sure if I am being sarcastic, but:
    Thanks for performing the Gimp 2.8 to Gimp 2.10 upgrade on my Mint system almost exactly one year after my Debian system had received that update.
    With all the additional snaps woes, this sounds to me as if for the next Mint upgrade you should consider a script to crossgrade from Mint 20 to LMDE5.
    Desktop system software versions being for a full year even more outdated than on the most-notorious server system… tsk, tsk, tsk. LTS or not, this is embarrassing.
    However, my thoughts to overcome my shyness leaving the apt/deb world for good towards Fedora in hope for more recent software versions, has been banned for the moment. At least this is a positive effect which the upgrade managed to achieve for the moment.

    Since I know how to handle apt and basic package dependency issues from having dealt with Debian for a decent time, I had of course skipped all preparations and did the “mintupgrade upgrade” right away. Maybe I was secretly hoping something might fail, and I would have to reinstall the OS from scratch then, but all went well, and now I am a questionably-proud Mint 20 user and at least wish to express my respect for the problem-free upgrade.

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  237. …so, I’ve completed the Mint 20 upgrade on a rather old Dell Dimension (Duo, 4G Ram) and it went well (about 2 Hrs) with only minor warning messages (which I naturally ignored) all seems well with only 1 small criticism .. memory consumption upon startup is about 100MB greater than 19.3 – otherwise, fantastic work that I get to enjoy, Thank-You !

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  238. Use apt–fix-broken install
    Does not help.
    Install is broken. It’s like I just made a Windows machine.

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  239. Hello Clem and Team!
    I updated too machines yesterday (1 Development VM and my son’s notebook). Everything went fine, but linuxmint theme for grub was gone. Many files were missing. I copied them from my personal notebook and I updated grub and Mint theme for grub is alive again. I don’t know if it is ok or it is a small bug. Thank you all for this release. A lilltle comment, I think that the icon theme should be updated. They feel quite old. Mint Xfce and Cinnamon with ePapirus for Os Elementary icon theme look quite nice. Thank you all again.

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    1. I found what happened. grub2-theme-mint package was removed while updating to Mint 20. I installed it again and problem solved correctly

  240. I have a problem with the download from the new version of Linux Mint . I did the updates through the terminal, but if I want to downgrade the foreign packages, there is not any package which I could downgrade and if I want to delete foreign packages it doesn’t work. There is one package which is not able to delete and I think this will not be the only one. And to make the update to the new version, how does it work that the systems runs on the new system?

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  241. Hi
    I had the same error as many people;
    Läser paketlistor… Färdig
    Bygger beroendeträd
    Läser tillståndsinformation… Färdig
    Beräknar uppgradering… Fel!
    Några paket kunde inte installeras. Det kan betyda att du har begärt
    en omöjlig situation eller, om du använder den instabila utgåvan
    att några nödvändiga paket ännu inte har skapats eller flyttats
    ut från ”Incoming”.
    Följande information kan vara till hjälp för att lösa situationen:

    Följande paket har beroenden som inte kan tillfredsställas:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Gör sönder: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) men 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 kommer att installeras
    monodoc-http : Beroende av: mono-xsp4 men det kommer inte att installeras eller
    mono-apache-server4 men det kommer inte att installeras eller
    mono-fastcgi-server4 men det kommer inte att installeras

    (…)
    apt_pkg.Error: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver : :Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    I have disabled all nonstandard PPA as per upgrade manual
    I tried
    apt get remove python-gi
    Then it complains about monodoc-http, mono-apache-server4 and mono-fastcgi-server4, so I tried
    apt remove mono-xsp4 mono-apache-server4 mono-fastcgi-server4

    Now, the 'mintupgrade check' command says

    + Restoring your backed up APT sources…

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Performing the upgrade would remove the following important packages:

    metacity, mint-meta-cinnamon, mintdrivers, mintinstall, mintsystem, mintupdate, nemo-preview, pix, xed, xreader, xviewer

    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    I guess that's not good

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  242. Followed all the instructions and after a grub rescue prompt at system start i finally decided to give up on Linux all together, i will always be a windows user

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    1. LOL, that figures, typical windoze user. give up. been using linux forever, always works better than windos even on old computers. typical answer to fix windoes: reboot or reinstall

  243. My antique Dell laptop upgraded from 19.3 to 20 flawlessly. My desktop upgrade had an issue (Ryzen with Raven graphics). The splash screen was OK but the desktop was torn up. I needed to add “nomodeset” to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub to make things work, as described in a post on the Linux Mint Forum. Is nomodeset considered a permanent fix or will some future update resolve the issue?

    Linux Mint 20 looks really good. Many thanks to the developers and maintainers.

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  244. Hello,

    I have the broken “libgirepository-1.0-1” issue during the upgrade:

    Calcul de la mise à jour… Erreur !
    Certains paquets ne peuvent être installés. Ceci peut signifier
    que vous avez demandé l’impossible, ou bien, si vous utilisez
    la distribution unstable, que certains paquets n’ont pas encore
    été créés ou ne sont pas sortis d’Incoming.
    L’information suivante devrait vous aider à résoudre la situation :

    Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Casse: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) mais 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 devra être installé
    E: Erreur, pkgProblem::Resolve a généré des ruptures, ce qui a pu être causé par les paquets devant être gardés en l'état.

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    ///////////////////////////////////

    Here are the informations provided by a "apt remove python-gi -s"

    Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :
    blueberry mailnag mintmenu python-gi python-gi-cairo python-gobject
    python-gst-1.0 radiotray
    0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 8 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
    Remv blueberry [1.3.4]
    Remv mailnag [1.2.1-1.1]
    Remv mintmenu [6.0.3.1]
    Remv radiotray [0.7.3-6ubuntu2]
    Remv python-gst-1.0 [1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1]
    Remv python-gi [3.26.1-2ubuntu1] [python-gobject:amd64 python-gi-cairo:amd64 ]
    Remv python-gi-cairo [3.26.1-2ubuntu1] [python-gobject:amd64 ]
    Remv python-gobject [3.26.1-2ubuntu1]

    ///////////////////////////////////////

    And here are my the foreigner PPA I use (I have previously disabled them and used the downgrade foreigner package as recommended, but with no luck)

    cat | grep ppa /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list

    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-bionic.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxuprising-java-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/java/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxuprising-java-bionic.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/java/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lutris-team-lutris-bionic.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lutris-team/lutris/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mikhailnov-pulseeffects-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mikhailnov/pulseeffects/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mikhailnov-pulseeffects-bionic.list:# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mikhailnov/pulseeffects/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/notepadqq-team-notepadqq-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/notepadqq-team-notepadqq-bionic.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/quiterss-quiterss-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/quiterss/quiterss/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/quiterss-quiterss-bionic.list:# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/quiterss/quiterss/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/savoury1-dbgl-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/savoury1/dbgl/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/savoury1-dbgl-bionic.list:# deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/savoury1/dbgl/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tkashkin-gamehub-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tkashkin/gamehub/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tkashkin-gamehub-bionic.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tkashkin/gamehub/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tomtomtom-conky-manager-bionic.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tomtomtom/conky-manager/ubuntu bionic main
    /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tomtomtom-conky-manager-bionic.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tomtomtom/conky-manager/ubuntu bionic main

    Cheers and many thanks for your help

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    1. That’s good feedback but I still can’t reproduce the issue, even after installing mintmenu and radiotray.

      Is there anything left in the foreign packages sections (both downgrade and removals)?

  246. Impossible de faire la mise à jour depuis linux mint 19.3 64 bits
    il mouline et renvoit sur le site à chaque fois aucune mise à jour éffectuer

    que faire?

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  247. I’ve trying to upgrade since yesterday, but every time I try to do it I got the repo is in sync:

    Err:10 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main amd64 Packages
    El archivo tiene un tamaño inesperado (14923 != 14925). ¿La sincronización de la réplica está en progreso? [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]
    Hashes of expected file:
    – Filesize:14925 [weak]
    – SHA256:66626f66f7162feee95d70bad80169da883a32a748fb388b36f4931e420b7151
    – SHA1:3b14cf5facc4344129695a1c3ac070394012ddbf [weak]
    – MD5Sum:0c52dfe8ba4f2ea50725a5ad48794e82 [weak]
    Release file created at: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 08:43:23 +0000

    The same error every time…

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    3. No improvements, I keep getting this:
      Err:10 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main amd64 Packages
      El archivo tiene un tamaño inesperado (14923 != 14925). ¿La sincronización de la réplica está en progreso? [IP: 208.77.20.11 80]
      Hashes of expected file:
      – Filesize:14925 [weak]
      – SHA256:66626f66f7162feee95d70bad80169da883a32a748fb388b36f4931e420b7151
      – SHA1:3b14cf5facc4344129695a1c3ac070394012ddbf [weak]
      – MD5Sum:0c52dfe8ba4f2ea50725a5ad48794e82 [weak]
      Release file created at: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:36:50 +0000
      Des:11 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main i386 Packages [14.3 kB]
      Err:11 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/main i386 Packages

      and then at the end I got this other message:
      E: Fallo al obtener http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/tricia/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz El archivo tiene un tamaño inesperado (14923 != 14925). ¿La sincronización de la réplica está en progreso? [IP: 208.77.20.11 80]
      Hashes of expected file:
      – Filesize:14925 [weak]
      – SHA256:66626f66f7162feee95d70bad80169da883a32a748fb388b36f4931e420b7151
      – SHA1:3b14cf5facc4344129695a1c3ac070394012ddbf [weak]
      – MD5Sum:0c52dfe8ba4f2ea50725a5ad48794e82 [weak]
      Release file created at: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:36:50 +0000

      I know my system is in spanish, the message says: The file has an unexpected size (14923 != 14925). The sync is in progress??

  248. Linux Mint 20 + Kernel 5.x + rtl8812au

    Before the migration I have tried to initiate a discussion about this wifi driver and the new kernels 5.x without success, cf: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=298903

    The new package of rtl8812au-dkms: 4.3.8.12175.20140902+dfsg-0ubuntu12 is not working after the migration to Linux Mint 20 with 5.4.0 kernel.

    A possible solution, but not integrated to the distribution is to use: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/rtl8812au

    But after activating this driver, which is working, the mintReport tool proposes to install the rtl8812au-dkms module…

    Then, I can ignore this report.

    Is it the official position of the maintainers of our favorite distribution?

    Thanks in advance for your answers.

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  249. Thanks Clem for your so quick answer.
    Could you please validate a path for this driver, using only one git repository if no hopes for a dkms stable driver?
    Thanks in advance.

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  250. Installed Mint 20, but very disappointed – VLC doesn’t work, multiple problems with Firefox displaying sites incorrectly, some applications missing from the software installer (eg Mirage). I repeated the installation, but same issues – went back to Mint 19.3, and it works perfectly – new Asus Vivobook. I’ll wait a while before I change.

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  251. Hi.
    I have noticed one annoying difference after installing Mint 20. I have 1 HDD I don’t use under Linux, so I always set it to fall to sleep after 2 minutes (Preferences -> Disks). Now, for some reason, when I choose to shut the system down the mentioned disk is waking up before final power off. That obviously shortens disk life spawn and makes shutting down 2 times longer. It was working fine under 19.3. Any idea how to deal with it?

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  252. It worked perfect, thanks a lot! I’ve avoided an installation from the scratch. I have MATE (very personalized) and Cinnamon and a lot of apps. Only had to downgrade Skype and Earth Google

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  253. @Clem

    A simple ‘apt-get remove python-gi’ seems to solve my broken ‘libgirepository-1.0-1’ issue.
    Or at least, the ‘mintupdate check’ is now finishing without issue.
    Finger crossed, let’s go !

    Here below are the logs for the python-gi removal:

    Les paquets suivants seront ENLEVÉS :
    blueberry mailnag mintmenu python-gi python-gi-cairo python-gobject python-gst-1.0 radiotray
    0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 8 à enlever et 2 non mis à jour.
    Après cette opération, 4 447 ko d’espace disque seront libérés.
    Souhaitez-vous continuer ? [O/n] o
    (Lecture de la base de données… 542165 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
    Suppression de blueberry (1.3.4) …
    Suppression de mailnag (1.2.1-1.1) …
    Suppression de mintmenu (6.0.3.1) …
    dpkg: avertissement: lors de la suppression de mintmenu, le répertoire « /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintMenu/plugins » n’était pas vide, donc il n’a pas été supprimé
    Suppression de radiotray (0.7.3-6ubuntu2) …
    Suppression de python-gst-1.0 (1.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1) …
    Suppression de python-gobject (3.26.1-2ubuntu1) …
    Suppression de python-gi-cairo (3.26.1-2ubuntu1) …
    Suppression de python-gi (3.26.1-2ubuntu1) …
    Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint8) …
    Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour libglib2.0-0:i386 (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.6) …
    Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.6) …
    Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) …
    Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) …
    Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
    Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) …

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  254. Luckily I have a good quality SSD, so the update went through without any freezing. It took a while, but everything went through like clockwork. I followed the update instructions *scrupulously* (no skipping of steps or cutting corners) and was pleased with the outcome. Mint-Y-Orange is my favourite and I was pleased that this is the default now. Thanks for all the help you give everyone, Clem.

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  255. Hi,
    could you please put a copy of your post at the begining of the entry, I just found it by chance… This post is not really intended for releasing…

    “Hi everyone,

    We’ve a headless fix coming up for mintupgrade (for people running it outside of any DE).

    We’re also moving the upgrade tutorial to the User Guide…

    Kind regards

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  256. Followed the directions for upgrading from 19 to 20, and after rebooting the bootup process hung. Had to go in with a rescue disc to retrieve the data the install from scratch. Not impressed with Mint’s upgrade path.

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    1. Hey Bob, I ran into a problem myself with my machine, but I think it’s pretty unfair to say things like “not impressed”. How much did you contribute to this project? Did you pay anything? Do you have a service agreement that says such and such? I don’t think so. Clem is doing fantastic work and even companies like Microsoft fail to implement clean updates, even smaller ones fail all the time on Win. So please, show a little more respect. Clem even takes the trouble to read this posts and help out. I think that’s quite something. Try to get support for your paid Windows license. *lol*

  257. fatal problem in mint 20 once restarted, passed the mint logo and left on the black screen, again saved my life timeshift and my dear mint 19

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  258. Before upgrading I downloaded the Mint 20 ISO file and I did make a backup using Timeshift in case something went wrong and I had to start from scratch. Started the upgrade following the procedure step by step and ended up with a perfect working Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon OS.
    Did the upgrade on 6 computers and all are running like clockwork.

    The only glitch was eID add-on in FireFox didn’t work anymore , but there is a workaround to fix it :

    sudo apt update

    sudo apt install eid-viewer eid-mw

    sudo apt install libcurl4:i386 libcurl4

    libeidviewer0

    libssl1.0.0

    cheers and have fun using this marvelous FREE OS

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  259. Never had problems with upgrading mint before. This time they didn’t nail it. Mint does contain timeshift to make up for it. So mint is still gold.

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  260. The instructions were very clear and I had no problems doing the upgrade. Now to try it out!

    Looks good so far.

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  261. After the upgrade, if I remove the foreign package libffi6, I get a black screen after rebooting and logging in.

    How do I even troubleshoot this further?

    apt says I have no broken, upgradable, or autoremovable packages. I also have libffi7 installed.

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  262. I’m having thi

    “GEGL version too old!

    GIMP requires GEGL version 0.4.22 or later.
    Installed GEGL version is 0.4.18.

    Somehow you or your software packager managed
    to install GIMP with an older GEGL version.

    Please upgrade to GEGL version 0.4.22 or later.”

    Reply

    1. I have this problem too – any ideas how to fix? Installing a later version of GEGL from the software manager doesn’t fix the problem.

  263. Just did the same upgrade from 19.3 on my wife’s Intel NUC computer – same flawless result. Took twice as long because of the CPU differences, but hey.

    Excellent job!

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  264. @Clem

    Will my 32bit wine libraries be available in Linux Mint 20? i would like to be able to play my win32 games on linux mint 20. Also when doing the simulated mintupgrade i get a huuuuuuuge list with all kinds of files. i would not know, which will be removed or not. will there be an upgrade function over the GUI soon?

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    1. There will be no GUI upgrade path. The list of files that you see includes what will be added as well as what will be removed. If you scroll to the top of the list the first 5 lines or so is what is usually removed. I’ve upgraded a desktop and a laptop so far, with no trouble. Just remember to sit there, or at least, return fairly often; as you will need to interact with he terminal at least twice. Remember to read the instructions (link is in Clem’s blog post) and as long as your system is 64 bit you should have no trouble.
      I’m not sure, but I believe the 32 bit libraries Wine needs are there.Check in the forums to be certain.

  265. I reverted back to 19.3 before completing upgrade. As soon as I saw Chrome was no longer in my system I became concerned and frustrated. I have several 3rd party applications on my system. When I’m finished, how can I be certain chrome chrome and my other applications will remember their settings? How do I get them all back?

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  266. I had some problems.
    A few applications were deleted, as Iramuteq, Stremio and pgAdmin 4.
    And Gimp gave me this:

    “GEGL version too old!

    GIMP requires GEGL version 0.4.22 or later.
    Installed GEGL version is 0.4.18.

    Somehow you or your software packager managed
    to install GIMP with an older GEGL version.

    Please upgrade to GEGL version 0.4.22 or later.”

    I recovered everything back with timeshift.

    I mean, a tutorial to update an operation system is not a good thing. I think (I’m sure, actually) this should be much easier.

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    1. Olá amigo estou tentando instalar o Iramuteq Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal, mas estou com muitos problemas de dependencias antigas, pode me ajudar a resolver a situação?

  267. Hi Folks, curious about this. I have just installed 19.3 in the last two months. I have since then installed IntelliJ Community Edition as a snap package and I installed snap through the terminal. I am currently doing a course in Python 3 and using IntelliJ. Will there be problems if I try to upgrade to LM20? I understand the stance taken in relation to snap packages but if a user has already decided they want them, is this going to be a problem in LM20?

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    1. Clem will probably answer this himself, but he already answered that same question here on that page, saying that already existing snap packages will not be removed.

  268. Followed the instructions to the letter – all very smooth. So far everything works including Virtualbox which Kernel 5.4 previously broke definitively. The only thing that seems to have mostly disappeared is Jack Audio – will investigate/reinstall. That’s a pain to configure but who doesn’t love a challenge! Thanks.

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  269. The upgrade worked for me. However… I would have to agree with many of the posts here in saying the process was a little cumbersome and long. I much prefer the upgrade path when upgrading to Mint 19.3. What most are not following is to keep using “mintupgrade check” a few rounds. Otherwise… I’m liking the new version, but the “upgrade” isn’t going to make users all that happy IMHO. I would not have minded keeping 19.3 Tricia around for as long as possible.

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  270. Since Linux Mint 19.3 is the last 32-bit version, is there a way to upgrade from Linux Mint 19.3, 32-bit to Linux Mint 20, 64-bit? Or should I save my data and just do a clean install, or, if I wish to keep at 32-bit, just switch to LMDE 4 or Debian 10?

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  271. Hi Mint Team!
    Upgrade worked fine when following all instructions on a Yoga 920, but on my older test system X220 I tried to cut some corners like removing and downgrading ppas prior to upgrading. It ended in a fresh install – but it was anyhow not well maintained test system where I could try everything and learn on (and I did). I was nearly expecting this and finally a fresh installation on a test system which is not productive is acceptable. The main computer upgrade went perfectly fine without any issues!

    Thanks a lot for all your hard work for this great piece of software!
    Jens

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  272. Updated Mint not the first time (before updated from 18 to 19 and so on), and it went without a hitch! Only programs from additional repositories had to be installed again (Wine, Steam). Thanks for the great work!

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  273. Hello,
    Upgrade got stucked once while “update-grub”. After a while, Ctrl-C and it when through the all process.
    After reboot, all seems to work (even MS office via PlayOnLinux), except Compiz, which crashes.
    So I tried to make a fresh install in VMWare player : Compiz crashes the same way.

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    1. Answer is easy … once you know the solution :
      Upgrade process resets all Compiz settings, so every settings are unchecked.
      So you have to restore a config file, or set again all the parameters you like.

  274. I have a problem

    mintupgrade check

    ERROR: Performing the upgrade would remove the following important packages:

    mint-meta-mate

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    1. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3946
      Clem July 9, 2020 at 10:02 pm
      mint-meta-mate isn’t a big deal and it gets reinstalled on the other side anyway… but check the list of removed packages all the same, review each removal in case this is hiding a bigger issue. Looking at it from here it looks fine to me,

  275. Tried the upgrade procedure as described on Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon and ended with a Linux Mint 20 Mate desktop with bad screen resolution (was 1920×1080 and became 1366×768) and lots of missing programs and built-in apps

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  276. Kudos to Clem and the whole team on doing an outstanding job with the upgrade, it went smoothe as silk on all 3 of my systems. Again kudos to all.

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  277. I noticed, after the upgrade, synaptic lists the following packages as “Installed (local or obsolete)”. Can they be safely removed?

    libnih1-1.0.3-6ubuntu2
    libprocps6-2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1
    ureadahead-0.100.0-21

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    1. When, per the upgrade instructions, I run ‘Software Sources : Remove foreign packages’, the same three packages are the only ones that cannot be removed. When the attempt is made, it fails, and the error messages note that they are essential parts of the system.

      Everything else ran perfectly.

      So, I’m just ignoring that trio.

  278. I installed Linux Mint 20 two days ago…two hours ago it completely froze up on me and crashed the hard drive. I had to do a complete reinstall of 19,3 to get back up and running again and am not amused with that glitch. I am unsure as to what caused the computer to freeze up for over half an hour so I rebooted the system.
    It crashed. I couldn’t access Mint 20 at all.
    Will try Linux Mint 20 in a year or so when all the bugs are out I think.
    Thanks for the update anyway.

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    1. Hello Vicki, If Linux Mint froze & the crashed I wonder if this was a memory related problem?. a) Check your systems physical memory 8GB or more, b) Make sure you have a swap file or swap space installed with the same amount of space i.e. 8GB’s c) I also added a 1GB swap file to my system and it hasn’t frozen or crashed since. I suggest your system hit a memory related problem. The above should help resolve this.

  280. Thanx for uploading Mint 20 Ulyana. Works fine! Updated over console after updating 19.3 and merging problems. Some 3rdparty tools maybe downgraded after install process. There is one problem with Firefox and Kernel 5.1 and higher. I noticed the problem with the onlinegame “Forge of Empires”. Logged in with FB Account the game hang up after e few Minutes. Only cold start helped. Now i have downgraded the Kernel to the old fine 4.20 and it works. Same procedure i have done with Mint 19.3 a few Month ago. Now i have Kernel 4.15 also installed for alternative start.

    Regards
    Les

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  282. Seems to have a (big) problem with Samba… Upgrade running in a loop 5 to 10 times on this point and try ton configure Samba common and Caja share before stopping and crashing.

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    1. A question first, if I may. When upgrading, did you let the mintupgrade force-answer yes to all interactive questions? At one point it will ask if it should preserve the existing configuration file, or if it should overwrite it. Also, there is a bug in the gvfs implementation. I was unable to connect to some machines after upgrade. See this https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=322404 No, that’s not my post. I’m almost a newb. 🙂

    2. Thank you Ed. I bookmarked your link to see later… Maybe it’s the solution to my problem. I had to ad SMB1 support to my Win10 config to connect my old NAS.

  283. Wanted to report a bug/issue.
    With 19.3, the Display applet always worked for me when working with my two BenQ 24″ monitors.
    Once I upgraded, I’ve been having a LOT of issues with the Display applet working correctly now. It’s just weird.

    The two main issues:
    (1) It seems that I can’t disable my monitors anymore. When I do, I get the prompt to save settings, but neither monitor has been disabled.
    (2) Changing to my second monitor causes the display to be pushed FAR to the left, where I can only see a small portion (the far right) of the screen. What displays is correct, but it doesn’t center the screen correctly.

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  284. Hello
    When I installed linux mint, I was happy.
    Upgrading to linux minte 20, very negative experience.
    Following update indications, it was blinking 24h, and nothing.
    there were two errors with no reason for me, but I had no more access.
    When using boot by pen, I was not able to record the linux mint iso on a DVD, it only allows it on a pen (not physically available).
    Revert to 19.3: does not work.
    I don’t speak English, and I didn’t find help in Portuguese.
    I’m sad, I was loving this S. Operativo.
    For new Linux users, a clean installation is preferable.
    Returning to Windows, triste, triste.

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    1. branco
      Try the forum #linuxmint-help Via hexchat. Just open the app (menu > internet) and it opens there by default. There are frequently Portuguese speakers there.

    2. win10 traba cualquier otro sistema operativo para trabajar en dual…ainda falo portugues.

  285. Well even after upgrade (the upgrade process appeared to install normally) my issue still remains… https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1843437#p1843437 ; in short, USB sticks etc and hard drives are not shown at all in file manager. well technically, after the upgrade my HDD”s are showing but it’s only because they are mounted manually with UUID. but connecting a basic USB stick does not work as ‘lsblk’ see’s it but it’s like it does not exist to the file manager at all. I can manually mount it with ‘Disks’ etc but that’s not a proper fix.

    and given what I said there (in that general topic) it appears at least one other person likely has the same issue I got, given they (Milan777) said on July 6th 2020… “I cannot access my memory stick, it is not being displayed on the file manager.”

    so currently I am back on a restored Clonezilla image of v19.3 which works fine. any chance by Mint v20.1 that weird bug won’t be there? ; because Mint v19.3 has been nice and reliable.

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  286. Currently running 19.3 Cinnamon and have had some issues with my internet connection dropping quite frequently. I have not yet tried to resolve the issue and at first thought it to be an issue with my provider but it was not as l have several other laptops running different OS’s and they are all fine. Will upgrading to 20.0 resolve my issues? Assuming it has but please confirm?

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    2. @ Dave ; just speculating a bit here, but… it might be worth changing your kernel as if you clean installed Mint v19.3 you will be on a non-LTS kernel as v4.15 is the LTS kernel for the Mint v19.x series. so if your hardware is supported, if it’s not real recent, chances are the 4.15 kernel will work and I suggest going back to it… Update Manager > View > Linux Kernels. then click on 4.15 and install the newest one, reboot, press ESC key before the OS loads, you should be brought to a menu and then from there select the 4.15 kernel you just installed, after Mint loads up, confirm some basic stuff like if your OS seems to be okay and internet, then go back to the Linux Kernels section in the Update Manager, remove ALL kernels newer than 4.15 (check each 4.18/5.0/5.3/5.4 sections to ensure none are installed). then from now on you will always remain on the 4.15 kernel for the life of the Mint v19.x series which is until April 2023.

      NOTE: starting on v19.3, if you clean installed instead of a upgrade from a prior version (i.e. 19-19.2), it defaults to 5.0 after initial installation which I would assume it has updated to a newer kernel by now since I think 5.0 kernel expired in Feb 2020. even the newest available 5.4 kernel expires in Feb 2021. but if your on 4.15, which is the LTS (long term supported) kernel, it’s supported the life of Mint v19.x series, which is until April 2023.

  288. Great instructions! Upgrade proceeded as perviewd in instruction. Time consuming, but no glitches. I now have Mate and Cinnamon upgraded. Thanks to all you Linux Gurus.

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  289. Great instructions! Upgrade proceeded as perviewd in instruction. Time consuming, but no glitches. I now have Mate and Cinnamon upgraded. Thanks to all you Linux Gurus.

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  290. Hi Clem and team,

    Just upgraded 19.3 to 20 flawlessly on a Dell Inspiron 3000 10th generation core i7, 32GB RAM and nvidia GeForce MX230. Everything worked as expected according to the upgrade steps without any issue. Linux Mint 19.3 was working great, and the new version seems to work great too! I use Linux Mint Cinnamon as my main and only OS for years already, I have even used it on a Macbook Pro with success!

    Great job guys and thank you so very much!!! Your work impact on people’s life! Or at least in mine. Thanks again :bow:

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    1. I have to agree. I’ve far too much to lose if things go wrong and looking at this platform the comments are frightening. I love Linux, no problems in ten years but now worry about upgrading. I will wait !!

  292. AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics, MSI B450M MORTAR TITANIUM. Removed foreign packages (blechbit and virtualbox) before upgrade. Upgrade took 30 mins. No problems. Snap with Netbeans TMC (TestMyCode) still works. Installation of BleacBit for Ubuntu 19.10 works. Old Clementine stopped working, I removed it. I liked it, the simplest way to handle playlists. Thanks for LM team!

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  293. Problem while upgrade check:

    Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Beschädigt: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) aber 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 soll installiert werden
    E: Fehler: Unterbrechungen durch pkgProblemResolver::Resolve hervorgerufen; dies könnte durch zurückgehaltene Pakete verursacht worden sein.

    phyton-gi is not installed anyways.
    PPAs are not present anymore after performing upgrade check 😉

    cheers
    Oliver

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    1. Same for me coming from 19.3. I get apt screwed after the upgrade because of a conflict between python 3.7 and 3.8.2.

  294. Hi, my upgrade from 19.3 went mostly fine, but there’s one persistent, annoying bug: when opening the suspended laptop, the login screen is invisible. All of the elements are still there; when I move the cursor over where the password field should be, it changes to text entry I-beam, and if I type my password and hit enter, it logs back in. But there’s nothing on the screen except for the desktop background. It isn’t grayed out at all, the time and user name isn’t rendered, it’s just blank.

    This only happens when opening the laptop. If I suspend from the Mint menu, and then wake it up with the power button, the login screen does render.

    Any idea?

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  295. I did the upgrade, going through all the steps as suggested. The GRUB configuration failed during the upgrade^, and I used a Mint 19.3 install drive to fix GRUB with Boot Repair; the first time I was able to get Boot Repair to work without finagling. All in all the singularly worst upgrade I’ve experienced while using Mint (since 17), but recoverable without going back to 19.3 with Timeshift. I hope the ability to easily transfer files locally makes up for the short term aggravation.

    ^ 1 drive with Win10 and Mint 19.3 (/ and /home) XFCE.

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  296. Upgrade no problem on all computer and laptop until now, only one desktop gave a warning back.
    ” usr/bin/dpkg ” has faults in in it, checked and yes there are many faults in.
    So the upgrade gave back that it was not done and so on.
    After restart surprise here was mint Mate 20 and this PC works without any proplems.
    One other desktop has problems with Realtek driver for the network, circumvented that by placing a Intel 10/100 card, the driver willcome and otherwise I leave the Intel in there, dose not make a difference for the speed.

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  297. I am a Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia Cinnamon user, no net, only a mobile modem in a USB socket. With these versions: modemmanager 1.10.0-1 ~ ubuntu, network-manager 1.10.14-0ubuntu my modem works stable like a rock.

    Before upgrading to version 20 I decided to check the live version on a pendrive. Live Mint20 start. I choose “Check integrity”, the check is done and everything is OK. Mint 20 loaded quickly.

    Configuring LT mobile modem, connect, connected. Install a new version of the Update manager. I set Date and Time (Region, City) next, Language Settings (must add my language, download, modem works stable
    Start Firefox, page https://www.linuxmint.com/start/ulyana/ loads quickly, click on the link “How to upgrade to Linux Mint 20” and the modem disconnect. I click “Connect” and in a moment it will hang up again and again and again. It is the same with other sites, they will load only in a small part and the modem disconnects: “Connection established” and in a moment “Connection Failed (modem disconnect)” over and over again (also in Synaptic, when I downloaded something).
    The following are installed in Mint 20: modemmanager 1.12.8-1 and network-manager 1.22.10-1ubuntu1. Nothing changed when I installed the available new version: network-manager 1.22.10-1ubuntu2.1 and Firefox 78.0.1.

    I decided to check the latest Debian (Live Testing BULLSEYE). The original were installed: modemmanager 1.12.10-0.2 and network-manager 1.24.0-1. Same behavior as described above (in Firefox and Synaptic). But I did upgrade to version: modemmanager 1.14.0-0.1 (also download many “libs” file ect.) And network-manager 1.24.2-1. And after that, my modem works stable again like a rock.
    I am convinced that the problem is in the modemmanager or related files.
    I decided to wait with upgrading to version Mint 20 until it appears with modemmanager 1.14.0-0.1

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  298. Upgrade done well, but grub rescue prompt greeted me after reboot. Boot-repair from live helped as always.

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  299. It’s so simple really.. i just need to know how to write cuniform in the mysterious box of confusion… i don’t remember having to do any of this the last time i upgraded cinnamon – or when i installed it the first time for that matter. that was why i chose it = because it was a foolproof linux for people who don’t know linux. it’s good they said, it will be perfect and an idiot proof way to switch from windows 7 they said…

    well at least i got a year or two out of it. i’ll start saving for a new laptop next week. i might afford one for christmas … 2021

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  300. To those using VirtualBox: refrain from upgrade until v6.something is available in repositories. Currently it is v5.something and does not support kernel v.5.4, the minimal one in Mint 20. (A problem is in vboxdrv, an essential kernel module.)

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    1. You can download Vbox 6.1 directly from Oracle (virtualbox.org). I had the same problem with kernel 5.4 on 19.3, but it works fine after the upgrade

    2. First of all: congratulations Clem and the entire team on what is a great new version of LinuxMint!

      Emphasis on stability and evolution, no revolution. This is what I want from the OS that is my daily driver.
      Being able to choose Nvidia support on a per-app basis (instead of having to reboot) is a major step forward as is fractional scaling and the multi-display support. I also like the dark theme and the swifter display of files in nemo. Great Job, as usual!

      Also the upgrade procedure tends to work well even though I encountered on hick-up that was not flagged by “mintupgrade check” and that is possibly relevant for other people here as well:

      Under LM 19.3, I recently installed a relatively newish HP printer which was not supported by the version of the HP Linux Imaging and Printing system (hplip) that is part of the Ubuntu 18.04 package base (and thus of of LM 19). Therefore I had to install the current version from the HP developer portal: https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing

      Now, a couple of months later, It turned out that this actually broke the update from Linux Mint 19 to LM 20: the manually installed version of hplip wants to update itself but requires python3 to do so, which in the course of the upgrade process is not yet updated. So it gets into a non-resolvable dependency loop. As noted above, this issued was not flagged by “mintupgrade check” earlier.
      I had to revert to my Time Shift Snapshot (which, as usual, worked like a charm).

      The solution was to first remove the manually installed version of hplip under LM19 using the instructions here: https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/howtos/install#howtocheck7
      (Note that in order for this to work, you may have to download the original tar package for the HPLIP version that you installed. See here https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/)
      After that, still under LM19, reinstall the repository versions of hplip and hplip-gui from the LM19 package base using “sudo apt reinstall”.
      After that, following Clem’s instruction to the letter, the upgrade worked smoothly.

      Again, thanks for your great work!

  302. Upgraded fine (Although took a lot of work, had to zap a whole host of foreign python stuff prior to upgrade).

    One strange issue, in software manager its only displaying apps I already have installed and not apps that are not on the system. Have put an issue on git, but wondering if anyone with similar issues.

    https://github.com/linuxmint/mintinstall/issues/285

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  303. I would like to use this newest program, but how to get it ready? These things are too difficult for this 83 years old man with very bad memory. There used to be an enterprise selling programs, but it finished working.

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  306. Upgrade failed.

    Since that, apt does not work.

    After restarting and doing mintupgrade upgrade, I get the following error:
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘apt_pkg’

    Please help, my previously perfectly working/optimized system is broken.

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  307. Hi problem with nordvn since update to mint 20:

    sudo apt-get install nordvpn
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Package nordvpn is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source

    E: Package ‘nordvpn’ has no installation candidate
    Can someone help please?
    Regards

    Christophe

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    1. Christophe, the nordvpn installer installs two packages : nordvpn + nordvpn-release. You should see them in the list created by the backup tool. If you could install the nordvpn package, the nordvpn repository seems well set up. You should only install the second package : nordvpn-release. Hope it helps!

  308. I updated successfully, all went well, but on the final reboot my home screen was a garbled mess that looks like multiple renderings of the home screen. I’m using a 64-bit Dell Optiplex 760 with maxed out 8GB RAM. Linux 19 ran perfectly, even the problem with the screensaver locking out the mouse was likely fixed in an update. Now it’s scrambled.

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    1. UPDATE: Setting the video to 16MB brings up a sign-in screen with my name but it rejects my password. Any other setting including “AUTO” gets the same garbled mess. I’m going to start over with 19.3 and see if I did something in error while upgrading. 19.3 “Tricia” was just fine for my workshop computer that I use for tutorials, ordering parts online, listening to Spotify, and accessing the internet/social media.

  309. My powerful and fully updated desktop computer running Mint 19.3 is working perfectly except for one problem.
    I have installed various chess games (one at a time) on my machine. They open up, but they do not permit me to make any moves. In the past I have not had this issue with Gnome Chess, etc.

    As this affects all various chess games I assume it is somehow a settings problem on my computer, but I could be wrong about that. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. y

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  310. I loved Mint before wanting to upgrade to version 20. I loathe that I am bullied into performing a snapshot just to upgrade. How very microsoft of you Mint.

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  311. Linux Mint 20 running great, I find it much snappier than previous versions !

    Just one little thing that appeared after ugrading, I get an error message at startup indicating that some applet or extensions did not start correctly. Here is what I have in the Cinnamon Looking Glass log :

    warning t=2020-07-13T06:58:15Z Failed to add launcher from path: chrome-pghodfjepegmciihfhdipmimghiakcjf-Default.desktop
    warning t=2020-07-13T06:58:15Z Failed to add launcher from path: chromium-browser.desktop
    warning t=2020-07-13T06:58:15Z Failed to add launcher from path: org.kde.kolourpaint.desktop
    warning t=2020-07-13T06:58:15Z Failed to add launcher from path: de.haeckerfelix.gradio.desktop

    But I have no trace anymore of these programs on my computer, they have been uninstalled long ago.
    Where would I remove these from the launcher, I’ve looked everywhere on my computer… at least I think…

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  312. Hi Team
    Thank you for your hard work .
    Can you kindly enable link for other search engines .
    Currently is disabled not sure why.
    Keep up the good work

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  313. Did a smooth upgrade. The GUI felt faster, though the menu felt more archaic. But one important thing – I lost all my bookmarked network locations (nearly 25 of them – smb shares, ssh shortcuts etc.) Went back to 19.3.

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  314. Hi Clem and team,
    thanks for all your efforts. Unfortunately upgrading didn’t work in my case upgrading from 19.3 to 20. I was left with apt destroyed and saved by Timeshift. I think it all started from the binary NVidia drivers. It seems I will need to uninstall a few things to upgrade. I have to say it’s not as smooth as it used to be. Could it be that in the future it becomes easier and I can just wait?

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  315. FYI, I had udev break while upgrading. I’m not entirely clear what happened, but during ‘mintupgrade upgrade’, dpkg couldn’t upgrade udev due to the udev restart failing. The errors were from systemd-udevd.service failing with “Exec format error”. Similar errors from udev-trigger and some others. Since udev failed to upgrade, a ton of other packages failed as well. There were also some errors about unknown lvalues like PrivateMounts from those files.

    I edited the following files to change all the Exec* stuff to have the full path; for example, ExecReload=udevadm… became ExecReload=/bin/udevadm…

    /lib/systemd/system/systemd-hwdb-update.service
    /lib/systemd/system/systemd-udev-settle.service
    /lib/systemd/system/systemd-udev-trigger.service
    /lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service

    The lvalue errors were caused by an older systemd, as described in https://bugs.debian.org/902185 . So, after I edited the Exec entries in the .service files and did my dpkg –configure -a, I was able to manually apt-get install systemd. Once the new version was installed, udev was happy, and I was able to run ‘mintupgrade upgrade’ again. The rest of the upgrade worked.

    There were a few 3rd party packages installed (dropbox, rstudio, some other core r packages, zoom, and docker), so I wasn’t starting from a pristine package base.

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  316. Printer working but simple document scanner – and I double checked with xsane – cannot detect the printer. Installing latest drivers didn’t work either. Works if I connect a usb cable, but stops once I disconnect the cable. Printer is a Samsung multifunction colour laser, using wifi. Thanks for any suggestions.

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    1. @Damian: Same boat. Samsung m2885fw. Latest drivers off of Samsung site do not work, either (uld_v1.00.36_00.91.tar.gz). Very frustrating, because this absolutely worked fine OOTB with LM 19.2. XFCE distros.

  317. During mintupdate update, I noticed the following flash by in the terminal window:

    Setting up python3 (3.8.2-0ubuntu2) …
    running python rtupdate hooks for python3.8…
    /usr/share/hplip/base/utils.py:2041: SyntaxWarning: “is” with a literal. Did you mean “==”?
    if weburl is “” or weburl is None:
    /usr/share/hplip/check-plugin.py:116: SyntaxWarning: “is” with a literal. Did you mean “==”?
    if log_level is ‘debug’:
    /usr/share/hplip/check.py:685: SyntaxWarning: “is not” with a literal. Did you mean “!=”?
    if ‘getfacl’ not in g and ” is not g and ‘file’ not in g:
    /usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.py:1898: SyntaxWarning: “is” with a literal. Did you mean “==”?
    if home_dir is “”:
    /usr/share/hplip/ui5/devmgr_ext.py:15: SyntaxWarning: “is not” with a literal. Did you mean “!=”?
    if self.latest_available_version is not “”:
    /usr/share/hplip/ui5/devmgr_ext.py:37: SyntaxWarning: “is not” with a literal. Did you mean “!=”?
    if self.latest_available_version is not “”:
    running python post-rtupdate hooks for python3.8…

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    2. Hi Peter,
      I had exactly the same. This was followed by a whole stream of errors which sem to be python3-related.
      Eventually the upgrade failed.
      Was yours successful?

  318. I have problem with my printer HP and the scanner :
    Missing Required Dependencies
    —————————–
    error: ‘libcups2’ package is missing/incompatible
    error: ‘python3-pyqt4’ package is missing/incompatible

    Missing Optional Dependencies
    —————————–
    error: ‘python3-notify2’ package is missing/incompatible
    error: ‘mate-notification-daemon’ package is missing/incompatible
    error: ‘python3-dbus.mainloop.qt’ package is missing/incompatible

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  319. Upgrade worked perfectly in about 15 minutes, excellent job and worth the wait. Finally a better solution for my dual screen setup. A very big THANK YOU to the devs 🙂

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  320. The upgrade process completed successfully according to the described procedure without any issues within less 1 hour! Update runs perfectly even when a Win10 version is installed in parallel on the disk.
    Great job

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  321. The hplip package was blocking my upgrade with a very complicated set of python Traceback and error output that seems to implicate python3 and python3-gi. When I reviewed the previous comments in detail I saw that others had solved problems initially looking like a python3 problem by removing hplip.

    The upgrade worked after “sudo apt-get remove hplip hplip-data hplip-gui”

    The “mintupgrade check” did not report a problem and only at “mintupgrade upgrade” is it encountered.

    The versions I removed were:
    $ dpkg -l | grep hplip
    ii hplip 3.17.10+repack0-5 amd64 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)
    ii hplip-data 3.17.10+repack0-5 all HP Linux Printing and Imaging – data files
    ii hplip-gui 3.17.10+repack0-5 all HP Linux Printing and Imaging – GUI utilities (Qt-based)
    [22:22:41 Sunday 07/12/2020] lam@ak19 ~

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    1. GREAT! This saved my installation. I had given up with Ulyana. Following your suggestion about removing hplip everything worked. Thanks!

    2. I see a lot of people reporting Python problems and am not sure that it’s anything other than the popular hplip application. Maybe “mintupgrade check” should just always flag this application instead of letting problems happen sometimes at the “mintupgrade upgrade” step which is more troublesome to recover from even with timeshift.

      I captured a complete log of the “mintupgrade upgrade” step that fails becasue of hplip but looks like python3 problems at: http://z.lam1.us/Zz/z20/z2007/2020-07-12/ak19-mintupgrade-upgrade-2142.txt

  322. Sorry, the upgrade doesn’t work for me. apt is completely screwed up because it requires python 3.7 but I have 3.8.2 installed. I will stick to 19.3 for a while and skip this Ulyana version, I fear. I don’t have time to tamper with python versions to get a working box.
    Thanks for trying, Clem.

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  323. I am a Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia Cinnamon user, no net, only a mobile modem in a USB socket. With these versions: modemmanager 1.10.0-1 ~ ubuntu, network-manager 1.10.14-0ubuntu my modem works stable like a rock.

    Before upgrading to version 20 I decided to check the live version on a pendrive.
    Start Firefox, page https://www.linuxmint.com/start/ulyana/ loads quickly, click on the link “How to upgrade to Linux Mint 20” and the modem disconnect. I click “Connect” and in a moment it will hang up again and again and again. It is the same with other sites, they will load only in a small part and the modem disconnects: “Connection established” and in a moment “Connection Failed (modem disconnect)” over and over again (also in Synaptic, when I downloaded something).
    The following are installed in Mint 20: modemmanager 1.12.8-1 and network-manager 1.22.10-1ubuntu1. Nothing changed when I installed the available new version: network-manager 1.22.10-1ubuntu2.1 and Firefox 78.0.1.
    I decided to wait with upgrading to version Mint 20 until it appears with modemmanager without errors.

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  324. First of all: congratulations Clem and the entire team on what is a great new version of LinuxMint!

    Emphasis on stability and evolution, no revolution. This is what I want from the OS that is my daily driver.
    Being able to choose Nvidia support on a per-app basis (instead of having to reboot) is a major step forward as is fractional scaling and the multi-display support. I also like the dark theme and the swifter display of files in nemo. Great Job, as usual!

    Also the upgrade procedure tends to work well even though I encountered on hick-up that was not flagged by “mintupgrade check” and that is possibly relevant for other people here as well:

    Under LM 19.3, I recently installed a relatively newish HP printer which was not supported by the version of the HP Linux Imaging and Printing system (hplip) that is part of the Ubuntu 18.04 package base (and thus of of LM 19). Therefore I had to install the current version from the HP developer portal: https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing

    Now, a couple of months later, It turned out that this actually broke the update from Linux Mint 19 to LM 20: the manually installed version of hplip wants to update itself but requires python3 to do so, which in the course of the upgrade process is not yet updated. So it gets into a non-resolvable dependency loop. As noted above, this issued was not flagged by “mintupgrade check” earlier.
    I had to revert to my Time Shift Snapshot (which, as usual, worked like a charm).

    The solution was to first remove the manually installed version of hplip under LM19 using the instructions here: https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/howtos/install#howtocheck7
    (Note that in order for this to work, you may have to download the original tar package for the HPLIP version that you installed. See here https://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/)
    After that, still under LM19, reinstall the repository versions of hplip and hplip-gui from the LM19 package base using “sudo apt reinstall”.
    After that, following Clem’s instruction to the letter, the upgrade worked smoothly.

    Again, thanks for your great work!

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  325. Olá! meu sistema iniciou normalmente, porém tem alguns erros que precisa da atenção do Desenvolvedor. Como faço para enviar o registro de erros e corrigi-los?

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    1. Felipe, eu acho que ninguém aqui irá entender português. Acho melhor você postar novamente em inglês, ok?
      Felipe, I think nobody here speaks Portuguese. Its better to post again in english, ok?

  326. Hi,

    I had an issue while upgrading to LM 20 related with Python. I’ve followed the upgrade instructions regarding the PPAs and 3rd party repositories and, even doing that, the upgrade always crushed.

    After some digging I realized that the issue was related to the HP Drivers that I had installed. I had to purge them:

    sudo apt-get purge hplip hplip-data hplip-doc hplip-gui hpijs-ppds \
    libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-hpijs
    sudo rm -rf /usr/share/hplip/

    sudo apt-get autoremove

    After that the upgrade went well. I’m just letting you guys know this because may help someone else.

    Thanks for this great OS!

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  327. Hi Guys!

    I was very much looking forward to this new version and did an upgrade, wich was going fine at first but then I ran into problems regarding fancontrol wich is necessary for me because an old Dell Precision T3550 and I liked it so much that I finally tried to install it from scratch. The only thing that I do not get, is that the fancontrol service should be part of lm-sensors but no matter how often I tried to set that up I received the message in terminal, that there is no such thing as fancontrol, no service whereas it should be part of the lm-sensors. The second upgrade I tried, did let me use fancontrol but I had to drop that because of some problems with crashes and not properly working software. Did a new fresh install, but still not able to find fancontrol in the lm-sensors in the Linux Mint 20. Could it be that I have a broke download that is giving me that problem or it is some change that gives me that very bad sensation now about this feature? I am looking forward on someones thoughts on this. Thanks alot Mint Team, for your wonderful work!

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  328. Effortless updates today of my notebook and NUC following the procedure. Thank you very much.

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  329. I found myself in serious trouble after upgrade.
    During upgrade there was a short “reset” of Cinnammon (screen became blank), windows of lost decorations and were overlapping, Ctrl+Alt+Esc didn’t help. I saw on terminal screen a configuration prompt related to Grub/MOK, but I couldn’t interact with it so I went to text mode, killed all the processes, removed dpkg locks and finished upgrade with dpkg –configure -a. After all packages were successfully configured I restarted the laptop (I should have reconfigured the kernel!) but it only boots to the BusyBox (initramfs prompt) with “ALERT! /dev/mapper/mint–vg-root does not exist”.
    I have an encrypted harddrive and I don’t know how to enforce cryptsetup on Grub. Worse, I don’t know BIOS password for the laptop. I kindly ask for any advice.

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  330. all clear and easy. worked well on my pc, now before upgrading my thinkpad could someone translate to german or explain the phrase “Click on the button to refresh your APT cache.” please! thank you!

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  332. Hi, update from 19.3 to 20.0? went smoothly on old HP G56, thanks.
    I now have some ACPI BIOS Error (bug) lines during boot seq but all I use seems to be working.
    i.e. Office, BiglyBT, Firefox, GIMP, Filezilla, Thunderbird and Windscribe.

    Any ideas on how to remedy this? or is it just cosmetic?

    Cheers, Mike.

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    1. @ Mike Veitch ; from what I understand you can pretty much ignore those “ACPI BIOS Error (bug)” lines as I notice them when using Clonezilla, but Clonezilla works perfect. so in short, you can likely ignore them and your system will work as expected.

      I think it has something to do with AHCI mode enabled in computers BIOS as I heard that AHCI mode is best for SATA connections as I noticed if I disable the AHCI mode in BIOS, those “ACPI BIOS Error (bug)” stuff goes away. but I would not do this since AHCI mode is best for SATA in general for optimal performance.

  333. I upgraded from Tricia 19.3 according to advice. Everything works perfect on my old 2008 HP Elite. Thanks!

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  334. I also have the GEGL Too Old error when trying to run Gimp. Looks like I should have removed the otto-kesselgulasch/gimp repository prior to upgrading.

    Unfortunately, now that I’ve upgraded, I can’t figure out how to fix this. I removed the repository, removed Gimp, and reinstalled Gimp. No dice.

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  335. Is there a way to reduce the multple password and “yes” response requirments down to just one time? So we can let it rip overnight.

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  336. I haven’t updated yet, because I have some important issues. Due to this pandemic period I’ve been teaching from home and to do that, I’m using Google Classroom (via chromium) for having contact to my students and vokoscreen ng for doing the content videos. Will these apps stop working?

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    1. Hi Carlos,
      vokoscreen will continue to work. I know, because I use it too. About chromium, I don’t know. But if it works with firefox, I think it will also work with chromium. I too was a teacher (I have been retired for a few years now) and I can imagine the teaching problems associated with this pandemic. Best wishes.

  337. Update worked perfect! Thanks for the great work!!!
    So far everything works great on my Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro v5

    Only thing I’m missing is blueproximity – that’s no longer in the repos… sad ;-(

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  338. I’m having trouble. The upgrade appeared to go OK but it wouldn’t boot into version 20. I got a bootableUSB with version 19.3 installed and booted up from that. I then tried to use Timeshift to roll back to my 19.3 installation. This certainly boots into 19.3 but I can now no longer access the device (SD card) where my Timeshift snapshots are stored. I have a message “Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/mint/Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon 64-bit: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or mount point busy”

    How can I get out of this?

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  340. HEY CLEM,
    why are flatpaks so incredibly large? Telegram over 600mb? I prefer not to download things from the package management.

    Besides, how do I find out if I still have snap packages installed? These are no longer possible on 20. I would like to uninstall them before, so that nothing goes wrong.

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  341. I tried up to upgrade to Linux Mint 20 – from 19.3 – on both laptops, but in both cases it failed due to dependency issues surrounding Python. Reading through the comments here and here: https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2485 other users have also had an issue with Python, and it would be nice to have some kind of official feedback as to what might be causing the issue…

    I’m very glad that I backed up using Timeshift!

    I’ve now done a fresh install on one of my laptops, and Linux Mint 20 is now working. However, I have experienced a few apparent “bugs” that I would like to quickly mention.

    First, while adding locations to the desktop panel clock I’ve found that the clock intermittently crashes.

    Secondly, in Firefox I found that I was unable to add new search engines. Having clicked the “Find More Search Engines” link, and then selected the new search engine, the next page then asks you to click “Here” and then nothing happened. I wondered if it might be a kernel issue, so decided to experiment with a 5.3 kernel. The result was that when I went back to try and add a new search engine, the page had changed to “To add Bing to your search engines click the “•••” menu in the address bar and select “Add Search Engine”.” So temporarily using a different kernel appears to have nudged things into working, and stay working…

    Finally, a problem that I haven’t experienced since Linux Mint 18 – the WiFi Led Blinking! 😀

    Teething problems? 😀

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  342. I followed the instructions. After I got to the mintupgrade upgrade step it ran for a long time them had an error

    saying a lot of lines about packages that ‘are not installable’
    yabause-qt : Depends: yabause-common (= 0.9.14-4build1) but 0.9.14-2.1 is installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt –fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to dist-upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    Now when I try to run mintupgrade upgrade I get the following

    ragnar@Ragnar ~ $ sudo mintupgrade upgrade
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade”, line 3, in module
    import sys, os, apt
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py”, line 23, in module
    import apt_pkg
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘apt_pkg’

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  344. I am having trouble using the internet after updating. Packages are failing to fetch, pinging is failing, and the only thing that can access the internet is tor.

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  345. Almost but no banana…

    Calculating upgrade… Error!
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
    !! Exiting.

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  346. I too had to uninstall hplip in order to get the upgrade to work. Now, I can barely get my printer to work in LM 20. Trying to install hplip from the HP website ends up with unresolved errors in that it can’t download some of the dependencies and it says hplip 3.20.6 isn’t supported by LM 20. Installing hplip 3.20.6 through synaptic package manager will get the printer to work, sort of, sometimes, with big delays; plus there are missing options in the HPToolbox that used to be there. Also can’t get the repo for Nordvpn to install in the additional repositories no matter how I try to put it in there so I’m unable to reinstall Nordvpn. Believe I’ll go back to 19.3 for a while until some of the issues get resolved

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    1. Hi, I installed hplip 3.20.6 from source and it worked. If you have a scanner and need the plugin, download 3.18 and run just plugin.py -I.

    2. Still won’t install hplip from the HP website. As I said before, it will install when using synaptic package manager, but it is not very functional. When I go back to LM 19.3, printer works great. No matter what I put in when trying to add Nordvpn repository it adds it as “deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian/pool/main/nordvpn-release bionic main /etc/apt/sources.list d/additional-repositories.list” and when it updates the cache it says it does not have a release file and won’t let me install Nordvpn; and trying to install Nordvpn from their site does not add the repository or install Nordvpn. I don’t know what else to put in when trying to add the repository because every version of what I type in comes back with the above as the repository site. I’m back at LM 19.3 now, and think I’ll just stay here for a while. A couple of things broke this time when I went back to 19.3 and it took me an hour to fix them so I don’t think I will tempt fate any more for a while.

  347. Upgrade LMint Cinnamon 19.3(home et swap cryptés) en 20 réussie. Sur HD 3To en GPT bios_grub multiboot pour 3 linux différents. Bien que assez complexe et un peu longue en faisant toutes les étapes du mode opératoire (plus de 2h) mais tout s’est bien passé en suivant le mode opératoire ici: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-20.html. J’ai tout retrouvé mes application à jour et fonctionnelles à part ceux enlevé avant Upgrade ! Linux Mint, Magnifique distribution que j’utilise depuis plus de 6ans. Jamais déçu ! bravo à l’équipe !

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  348. Cinnamon randomly crashing to fallback mode. I then have to restart Cinnamon quit often. Everything else is working great with the exception of Cinnamon crashing. Going to continue to do some researching on this issue. Thanks.

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    1. Forgot to mention this is a Fresh Install. I will reinstall and see how that plays out.

  349. Everything went ok for me.

    There seems to be a new app Document Scanner for scanning documents which unfortunately is not working for me.

    When I first launch the app all seems fine. It searches and finds the USB connected device:

    “Seaching for scanners
    Ready to scan
    HP Deskjet_2540_series”

    However when I click the Scan button:

    “Failed to scan
    Unable to connect to scanner”

    So for now I’m back to taking photos with my phone for scanning 🙁

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    1. I have the same problem with an HP Deskjet 3630, but it occurs randomly. Sometimes it works, but most times I get the error you mention.
      One thing is certain: in 19.x and previous, scanner worked perfectly.

  351. Unable to find mintupgrade…
    apt install mintupgrade says:
    Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
    Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
    Statusinformationen werden eingelesen…. Fertig
    E: Paket mintupgrade kann nicht gefunden werden.

    even after switching the repositories to default…
    Help please!

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  352. Upgrading LM 20 both Cinnamon and MATE from LM 19.3 was smart and successful as well! Thanks for our great job as usual!

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  353. Well, reading the comments – and considering my own trouble posted somehwre up there – an all I’d say this is not a very safe option at the moment to do the upgrade. This feels a lot like Beta right now. Might get lucky, might not. I did a system image backup before the attempt and switched back to 19.3 after getting a blank black screen with a blinking cursor top left after booting into Mint 20. I could switch to another console and login as root, but only on command line. X-Server didn’t start… if it helps that’s what startx is saying:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/9ESVKqaog8fBHLxG6

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  354. No trouble in upgrading my laptop from 19.3 to LM20 – after I realized it used Java. I’d uninstalled the default Java engine for security reasons, but all OK after re-installing it.

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  355. The update worked, the only problem I am facing is with mintmenu. When I try to load it, I get the following in syslog:

    Jul 14 08:39:06 Doctor dbus-daemon[38204]: [session uid=1000 pid=38202] Successfully activated service ‘org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory’
    Jul 14 08:39:06 Doctor org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[39749]: #015Reading package lists… 0%#015#015Reading package lists… 100%#015#015Reading package lists… Done
    Jul 14 08:39:06 Doctor org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[39749]: #015Building dependency tree… 0%#015#015Building dependency tree… 0%#015#015Building dependency tree… 50%#015#015Building dependency tree… 50%#015#015Building dependency tree
    Jul 14 08:39:06 Doctor org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[39749]: #015Reading state information… 0%#015#015Reading state information… 0%#015#015Reading state information… Done
    Jul 14 08:39:06 Doctor kernel: [40851.273886] mintmenu[39685]: segfault at 4 ip 00007fb04e026d04 sp 00007ffc04227fa8 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.2404.16[7fb04de81000+36f000]
    Jul 14 08:39:06 Doctor kernel: [40851.273893] Code: 84 00 00 00 00 00 45 31 e4 48 83 c4 08 4c 89 e0 5d 41 5c c3 66 90 f3 0f 1e fa 83 47 04 01 48 89 f8 c3 0f 1f 40 00 f3 0f 1e fa 47 04 83 e8 01 89 47 04 85 c0 7f 37 55 83 3f 07 48 89 fd 77 69

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  356. The update went great.
    I use the root system to run virtual machines running VMware Workstation 15 Pro latest version. Disk space is organized on LVM volumes. I do not use any third-party drivers and packages. There are domain network resources. After the update, I did not have to do anything. Everything worked.
    Thanks to the developers!

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  357. To the person who replied “sudo rm /usr/share/python3/runtime.d/hplip-data.rtupdate” somewhere in this comment section, thank you! I was having problems with dependency errors, resulting in cinnamon crashing upon startup and this fixed it.

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    3. to TH,
      I’d be happy to buy you a beer or several – but since that’s not practical I’ll raise a glass to you when I visit the pub this evening (UK time).
      Worked perfectly, as is my HP printer after the upgrade.

      Worth putting this in the upgarde instructions for those readers who have HP printers.

      I can’t thank you enough.

  358. I couldin’t find bluetooth on my mint 20. I updated it from mint 19.3. Is this some kind of error in the updation.

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  359. The pre-upgrade test reports an error that “mint-meta-mate” will be removed and is “important”. I’m obviously a Mate user. What should I do?

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    1. You can remove mint-meta-mate. Maybe 2 or 3 other dependencies will also be removed. It happened to me when I upgraded from 19.3 and I had to remove python-gi package. Nothing happened. Than the upgrade was installed without problems.

    2. All went well. I ignored the error. It is very obviously a very complex upgrade and it went smoothly. Both Google Chrome and Codelite work just as before.
      Thank you guys.

  360. My windows 7 machine died a month ago or so (I’ve been a windows user for years) and I bought a W10 machine to replace it. A friend told me to install Linux mint on the old machine and I was introduced to Linux for the first time. My old friend was up and running in minutes! I was learning to use 19.3 when 20 was released and since I hadn’t learned to install anything on the machine yet I decided to make a bootable drive and do a fresh Mint 20 install.

    You guys really knocked it out of the park and I couldn’t begin to express how grateful and impressed I really am – To inexperienced folks like me who are in need or curious but afraid… JUST DO IT. LOL
    -I took the Windows 10 machine back- That’s how happy I am with Linux.

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    1. Yes, it usually works like that and people are rather surprised. The myth is still alive that you need at least a PhD in engineering or IT to even think about using Linux. Partly because many years ago that was true, partly because the Linux community is rather bad at marketing 😉 And to be fair, sometimes things do not go so smoothly and then it can be rather difficult for the non-techie. But nowadays that happens a lot on Windows, too.

  361. I’m seeing indications that ubuntu may have puled the plug on at least some of the 19.x repositories (tried several mirrors, all getting some type of failure. Really ? With all the upgrade bugs being reported you’d think we would still have a way (and some more time) to maintain 19.x until ready to move to 20.x

    https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-1910-set-to-reach-end-of-life-this-month

    Sometime this month ? That’s really not acceptable if it’s true

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    1. Ubuntu 19.10 was not an LTS release, it has a much shorter life (of 1 year I think). It’s always been that way with the odd-numbered year releases

  362. Yes but this affects Linux Mint updates as well. I think the path to the latest 20.x update is from 19.x ? Since most of my machines are running 19.x still

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  363. i updated my system but my system letter renders is gone. for example when i right click i dont see copy. all i can see is unicode charaters like 0043 004f 0050 0059

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  365. Upgrade to 20 went well apart from no sound after. Not picking up the correct default soundcard. Alsamixer shows Intel HDMI as default when it should be Intel PCH. I can list the cards with ‘aplay -l’ then generate a sound to the appropriate device ‘aplay -D plughw:1,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav’ .
    I can also go into pavucontrol->conf and force analog Line-Out for my speakers, but this is lost after a reboot. Still trying to debug it.

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  366. I installed mintupdate and when I type mintupdate check, it tells me the command is not found:

    robins80@Constantine:~$ sudo apt install mintupdate
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    mintupdate is already the newest version (1:6.1.5~gm10).
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
    robins80@Constantine:~$ mintupgrade check
    mintupgrade: command not found

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    1. The first line is incorrect. You want – apt install mint upgrade – not update. Mintupdate is the standard updater.Hope this helps

  367. Das ist der größte Scheiss den Ihr hier geliefert hab6t !
    Mozilla Browser verbracuht inzwischen schon 70 % meiner CPU Resorzsen !
    Hier geht gar nichts mehr glatt !
    Bis 19.3 gingen und liefden alle typisch Linux sachen ! Jetzt geht gar nichts mehr !

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    1. With that kind of attitude, I suggest you install Windows and be happy ever after. Alternatively, the instructions covered in detail how to make a backup before the upgrade, so just go back to 19.3 and wait a couple of months. That’s what I have done. No need to insult people who do great work that you don’t pay a single dime for.

  368. I tried to update and got this:
    robins80@Constantine:~$ sudo apt install mintupdate
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    mintupdate is already the newest version (1:6.1.5~gm10).
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
    robins80@Constantine:~$ mintupgrade check
    mintupgrade: command not found

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  369. Upgrade worked as described.
    Redshift seems to have a flaw with the correct color temperature and gscan2pdf needs a pdf encryption (missing package).
    Thanks. I appreciate your work!

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  370. seems a bit pointless to have “system report” flag up a notification with a button that says upgrade to 20 only to have it just open a webpage on how to diy.

    probably should have skipped the button until gui version is available.

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  371. I upgraded a basically vanila mchine to Ulyana with no problem, took time as it’s an older, slow hard drive. Next, I upgraded a much faster laptop with ssd drive. All went well until I had a list of about 20 items that were listed as uninstallable, apparently consisting of “libs” and python items. I started to copy the list so that I could print it, but the terminal vanished. The beginning and end of this list of errors said “try to fix with ‘apt –fix-broken install’. All i received was a man page for apt usage. So I rebooted. Ulyana came up, but apt does not work, there’s no window manager, but I can still perform a few tasks. The system is incomplete, and since apt does not work, I can’t try to install the missing packages. I did follow directions and downgraded and removed indicated packages.

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  372. Tried twice in 2 days and recieved the same error message ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.

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  373. Good morning y’all!
    I’ve gone through all steps to upgrade carefully, done all the restarts, checked that all repos are the default ones, purged and downgraded all foreign ppa’s (we haven’t got any except the default ones on our laptop that I’m trying to upgrade Mint on) – still I don’t seem to be able to upgrade from 19.3 to 20.
    I still get the notification that I can upgrade to Mint 20 which leads me to this instructions website when I click the upgrade button. I’m stuck in a loop, so it seems.
    Anything I can do?
    Jörg Walesch (Germany)

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  374. Upgrade to 20 went well apart from no sound afterward. Doesn’t seem to be picking up the correct default soundcard. Alsamixer shows Intel HDMI as default when it should be Intel PCH. I can list the cards with ‘aplay -l’ then generate a sound to the appropriate device ‘aplay -D plughw:1,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Right.wav’. I can also go into pavucontrol->conf and force analog Line-Out for my speakers, but this is lost after a reboot. Still trying to debug it.

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    1. Booted 20 from a flashdrive and sound worked fine. Reverted back to 19.3 with Timeshift. Will run the upgrade again at next opportunity at report.

  375. Thanks to the Linuxmint Team doing a great job on their Distributions and Upgrade Tools.
    Worked flawless for me.
    Grub Theme vanished, but function is still there.
    I also installed LMDE a few month ago and now I am wondering what is the better distribution choice for the future to work with. I am sometimes wonder what Canonical is up to with Ubuntu.
    On the other hand Debian has very outdated packages (f.e. Libreoffice) but that can be fixed by adding repositories. Is Linuxmint going to stay mainstream on Ubuntu or is there plans to focus in future on LMDE ?
    Any opinion on that? Feel free to comment.

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  376. HI.
    I have upgraded from Mint 19.3 Cinnamon to Mint 20. Everything is working well except for suspend. On 19.3 it used 1-3% battery on an overnight suspend now it is using 27%. The power management settings are the same. I have also tried suspending from the terminal using system to suspend but et the same results. Any ideas for getting back to the 1-3% mark would be very welcome. The system is a Dell xps 13 with16 go ram and Itb ssp.

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    1. Rolled back to 19.3 and all was well until it upgraded to kernel 5.4 and suspend started using the same amount of battery as it had on LM20. Rolled back to 5.3 kernel and all is OK so it appears to be a problem with the 5.4 kernel. I will stick with the 5.3 kernel for the time being and hope a future kernel upgrade solves the issue.

  377. I made a fresh install of LM 20 on my father’s laptop. Everything works fine. Stable system – brother multifunktion device prints and scans without errors.
    After reading all these comments with a lot if issues i will stay with 19.3 at least the release of 20.1.
    And then most likely a fresh install.

    Always remember: Never change a running system! (if it is not absolutely necessary) 🙂

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  378. Ah, another question to the LM-team and / or the community,

    will it be possibe to install warpinator on a LM 19.3 computer?

    I only found a download for LM 20. Or can i use this for 19.3?

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    1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clementlefebvre/grpc
      apt update
      apt install mint-dev-tools
      mint-build -i -g warpinator

  379. Dear people at Linux Mint,

    Many thanks for this new edition of your operation system. I have an old Dell Inspiron N5050 and the fan has never been this quiet!

    All the best,

    MPE

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  380. Have instaled the Ulyana Cinnamon and have got the problem with opera browser – does not play html5 video content.. Some budy have the problem?

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  381. Just completed a re-installation of Mint. I ran into some issues with the upgrade process that left me with console login only. It was not unexpected as this system went from 18 to 19 and then an attempt at 20. There were a bunch of PPAs and other hackery done over the years and the downgrade of 3-rd party packages killed it. Anyhoo, not a massive deal as my home directory was on a separate drive.

    I installed Mint 20 via USB. For some reason, the boot loader didn’t appear to have written properly so I tried a boot-repair. On reboot, it ended at a grub-repair prompt. I was able to find the Mint install and boot it. Ultimately, after delving into the BIOS, it looked like it was trying to boot from a non-OS disk and the fix was to re-order the boot sequence. This was not in the main boot options but in a sub-menu under those.

    After using it for a day I’m elated. The best feature so far is the fractional scaling. On this 4K monitor, normal was just too tiny and 200% was just a waste. The 150% is a great setting. Great work!

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  382. Bonjour je souhaite migrer en version 20 et je suis dans les PPA. Il est demander après avoir désactiver les PPAs d’aller dans maintenance et de faire ceci :

    Ouvrez l’onglet Maintenance et cliquez sur Downgrade Foreign Packages.
    Sélectionnez tous les packages étrangers et cliquez sur Rétrograder.
    Cliquez sur Supprimer les colis étrangers.
    Sélectionnez tous les packages étrangers et cliquez sur Supprimer.

    Je n’ai pas ces choix en version française j’ai :
    résoudre les problèmes
    Purger la configuration résiduelle
    Retirer les souces dupliquées
    Ajouter des clés manquantes
    Supprimer les paquets étrangers
    Restaurer les paquets étrangers.

    Je voudrais faire les choses proprement, pouvez vous me dire la procédure a faire dans maintenance en version française ?

    Merci encore

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  383. with Linux Mint 20 i can’t use google cloud print. the printer is connected but the jobs are not transmitted. Never had such issues with Mint19

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  384. when using mint 20 with gnome the system settings are not showing. On another notebook the settings are there but it is not possible to chose between cinnamon or gnome when logging in there is only the possibility to log in to gnome

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  385. For those wanting to install CHROMIUM without using SNAP, here’s a way to even exclude goooogles spyware:
    For Ubuntu Focal run the following:
    Keep in mind that the owner of the key may distribute updates, packages and repositories that your system will trust (more information).

    echo ‘deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Ubuntu_Focal/ /’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:ungoogled_chromium.list
    curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ungoogled_chromium/Ubuntu_Focal/Release.key | gpg –dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home:ungoogled_chromium.gpg > /dev/null
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install ungoogled-chromium

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  386. Cinnamon (LM 20) introduced some new keyboard shortcuts that are not visible in the “Keyboard > Shortcuts” settings. For example, Super+N (shows notifications) and Super+C (shows calendar), both of which I have already been using as “Custom Shortcuts” instead, in previous LM releases. But in LM 20 it’s not possible to override them unlike other default shortcuts in the “Keyboard > Shortcuts” settings.

    So could you add these new keyboard shortcuts to the “Keyboard > Shortcuts” settings and allow users to override or modify them?

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  387. After installing and rebooting i cannot start the grafical interface.

    I receive tue message mdm.service is masked

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  388. Congratulations and thank you! Out of the box, from 19.3 onto a dual-boot, USB-stick based system. Impressive!

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  389. So l have 19.3 loaded new and not just updated. Other than uploading the vers.20 just because it is available is there any advantage for me over the 19.3?

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  390. Trying to upgrade but Mintupgrade tells me this:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    nothing else shows me these as broken or held…
    Can't really do a fresh install as I can't find the password for my email (long story) and as far as I know a fresh install will wipe out my email. Can anyone help?

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  391. I get this running the check:
    + Restoring your backed up APT sources…

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Performing the upgrade would remove the following important packages:

    metacity, mintsystem, mintupdate, pix, xed, xreader

    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————
    Why is this happening? Is there a way to move forward?

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    1. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3946
      Clem July 9, 2020 at 10:02 pm
      mint-meta-mate isn’t a big deal and it gets reinstalled on the other side anyway… but check the list of removed packages all the same, review each removal in case this is hiding a bigger issue. Looking at it from here it looks fine to me,
      ITfW July 15 2020
      Proceed.

  392. Hi,
    Just upgraded and everything went smoothly, except that now when I boot up with a CD in the drive the system insists on checking its integrity, which really slows down the boot process. How can I disable this?

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  393. Successfully upgraded from 19.3 to 20. However, my machine now runs so slow as to be annoying beyond acceptance. Looks like a fresh install in my near future. 🙁

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  394. After installing Linux 20 the grafical Interface does not start anymore.

    When I start the Computer, I receive a message

    error connecting to tpm chip.

    When I try
    Mdm.service restart
    I receive an error message
    Mdm Service is masked
    I have no idea what to do.

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  395. My upgrade went sort of ok. I was upgrading to a new SSD so I had nothing to lose in trying an upgrade.
    I noticed netflix now runs in Chrome. But fractional scaling is greyed out which I’m sure I’ll get to at some point.

    I had a recent(ish) installation of 19.3 directly installed on a dell inspiron. One of the reasons I didn’t want to do a fresh installation is because I have customised a few things and in particular had got MS Office working under wine to the point where I no longer needed Windows. Unfortunately this is the only thing that broke from what I can see. The data is still there and presumably office is still activated.
    It removed the following packages: wine-stable, wine-stable-i386:i386 winehq-stable, playonlinux
    I have re installed play on linux and wine but seem to have a problem with a dependency requiring package that it says is not installed but is. So 30 years on a packages still don’t work for me.

    My naive thinking is that if I install wine-stable, wine-stable-i386:i386 it will carry on working but am stuck in a loop that I’m not sure I would have avoided with a fresh install.

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    1. 3 messages? Is there a # before the IRQ message? I did a quick search, but the only solutions I saw involve modifying the grub.conf file. I’m not up to helping with that. I can tell you IRQ means interrupt request, which has to do with communications between hardware and the CPU. See here:
      https://hyunyoung2.github.io/2016/01/03/IRQ_Handler_In_Linux/
      Do you have any proprietary drivers installed? That can cause problems on occasion.

  396. Followed all instructions and upgraded both my laptops from 19.3 successfully, however the Acer now shows ‘no irq handler for vector’ messages during boot that weren’t there before upgrade. It works well but I am concerned the messages mean there is an underlying fault. Can’t find a suitable fix on the forums and am hesitant about fiddling with the system. Otherwise very nice and easy upgrade.

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    1. Does the Acer have an optical drive? I once had a problem installing 19 with a usb optical drive due to no irq handler, but putting an internal drive in ended the problem. It might be that it can’t find a drive. Just a guess on my part, so if everything works it may be best to ignore it.

    2. Thanks Ed, the Acer has a 500Gb drive and Mint 20 was installed from an image on a USB that I burned from an ISO hoping for a clean install. I can certainly ignore it because other than the three messages during boot it runs perfectly but I’d prefer it to run clean without errors. 🙂

  397. I just did a fresh install of Mint 20 and it just boots to GRUB prompt. Google not really helpful – any suggestions? I did install is twice now, same issue. Tried to change boot order in BIOS, no change. Mint is the only OS on disk and I used entire HDD.

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    1. I had a similar issue. A couple things you can try:
      1. If you have multiple drives on the system it’s possible that it’s booting from one disk but the install is on another. I know you’ve checked, but in my BIOS there are two related settings for the boot order. One shows a list of bootable devices but in a sub-menu under that there’s another Boot Priority menu where I actually can choose the right device. I don’t know what the distinction is but selecting the drive under the submenu fixed this grub issue. This motherboard is an Asus M5A99X.

      2. On a similar system (different MB, but also multiple drives), I checked the BIOS and it was fine. I ended up booting with the install disk, installing boot-repair (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair) and re-installing the boot loader.

      3. If you are running multiple disks, one way that seems to work consistently is to disconnect the other drives during the installation.

  398. It works, but is not for inexperienced people. Who has Windows along with LM, with this update, will have a broken boot.
    A question: if i have LM 18 is necessary to update first to LM 19 and then to LM 20? Is the same procedure?
    Thank you!

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    1. You would need to go from 18.3 to 19 to 19.3 to do an upgrade. It would be both easier and safer to just do a fresh install of LM 20 along side your windows installation. If you have an external drive, save a backup to that, and then just re-install your data files to the home folders. You could do the same with .config files as well, I think; although you may want to check that with others. I hope this helps.

  399. I am using Linux Mint 19.3. I have found a ‘Systems Report’ icon in the notifications area. One offering is ‘Upgrade to “Linux Mint 20 Ulyana” This icon ‘disappears’ after clicking on it, but; returns each day when I wake my laptop. I have not seen anything about this anywhere. Is this the similar to the upgrade offer that showed up for the upgrade from LM 18.3 to 19.0? Has there been any problems? Is it a ‘safe’ option? Wondering IF clean install would be safer after appropriate backups?

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  400. Be aware with multiple versions of python.
    At last it worked, got some troubles with python (so with apt) that makes the upgrade failed. The problem was that I have two python’s versions 3.6 and 3.7 installed with update–alternatives and the upgrade didn’t handle to add 3.8 and configure it as default version. Of course dind’t took the time for a backup, so I had to make links to /etc/alternative/python3 to /usr/bin/python3.8, then apt install –fix-broken; apt-get update and then again mintupgrade upgrade.
    Now all is working just fine.

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  401. Hello, I have been upgrading my computer since 18.0. All the 19.x versions worked well (thank you!) and now I updated to 20. The upgrade process seemed to go well, without warnings or errors. When the computer boots up, I no longer get a login screen though. It looks as if the display isn’t recognized? I can boot in recovery mode and then I get a login screen and can start a session. The display manager shows only resolution configuration: 1024×768 @ 76Hz. I cannot change it to anything else.

    Information about my graphics card:
    1f:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev ef) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
    Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Radeon RX 570 Gaming 4G
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
    Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
    I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
    Memory at fe900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
    Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
    Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
    Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010
    Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
    Capabilities: [200] Resizable BAR
    Capabilities: [270] Secondary PCI Express
    Capabilities: [2b0] Address Translation Service (ATS)
    Capabilities: [2c0] Page Request Interface (PRI)
    Capabilities: [2d0] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
    Capabilities: [320] Latency Tolerance Reporting
    Capabilities: [328] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
    Capabilities: [370] L1 PM Substates
    Kernel modules: amdgpu

    I tried installing the AMD display drivers, but that led nowhere but to a bunch of errors, and now apt complains about unresolved dependencies.

    I tried booting up with different kernel versions (back to 4.20), but no difference.

    Driver manager shows “no proprietary drivers in use” and “you don’t need any additional drivers”.

    It’s been a while since I did any system install debugging… any suggestions on how to deal with this issue? Thanks!

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  402. Ok, after the update it’s the X server that doesn’t want to start. The full Xorg.0.log can be seen here: https://pastebin.com/LuYYPZQu. When I boot up in recovery mode, X starts fine but gives me no resolution options — I’m stuck in 1024×768 @ 67Hz. How can I fix it so that X starts correctly? I don’t use this computer for gaming, and have this card for a concurrent windows install (on another drive) that I need to run Gopro’s Fusion’s studio software… Thank you.

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    1. It may be nothing, but I notice your kernel is 4.15.. Could that have something to do with it? This computer is still on 19.3 and I’m a version behind you on X Server- 1.19.6 Could that be it? keep in mind, you probably know more than I do. 🙂

  403. SimonNL on the help channel suggested that I ask this here. I had posted this morning, but; it was gone when I came back to see if there was a reply.

    I have found a ‘Systems Report’ icon in the notifications area. One offering is ‘Upgrade to “Linux Mint 20 Ulyana” I am using LM 19.3. Has there been many problems with this? Wondering why it is considered “System Reports?” I have not seen anything about this anywhere else. https://imgur.com/a/3Ib6pvO

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    1. The System Report notice is just that, a notice that the upgrade is available. If you click ‘ignore…’ it will go away and you won’t see it again. If you are asking about problems upgrading read through the posts here, as most problems upgrading are flagged here. Myself, I have upgraded 2 desktops with no problems; one with hardware going back to 2011; and 1 laptop from 2012 (Dell Latitude) that for some reason flashes something at boot that is too quick to read. It functions with no problems though, so I just ignore it.If you choose to upgrade see these instructions: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-20.html

  404. Hi, being new to Mint I assume that after the additional repositories and foreign PPAs are disabled, downgraded or removed (as per the instructions) and then Mint 20 has successfully upgraded, you then re-enable or add the foreign PPAs. Is it that simple? Why would you downgrade them again. Thanks for your patience Clem.

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  405. in the mintupgrade command I got the message please do “sudo apt autoremove”, however when I run this command I get nothing to do. + Restoring your backed up APT sources…
    + Restoring your backed up APT sources…
    How can I upgrate version?
    thanks

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  406. Instalation from live flash was the best ever, replaced 18.3 and left win 7 just in case needed. Really good work.
    Problems with firefox and thunderbird’s profile files not being right after I moved ~/.Thunerbird and ~/.mozola over from backup. I deleted the profile.ini and installs.ini and got them UP WITHOUT bookmarks, address book and email accounts. Simply moving the .Thunderbird folder usually does the job. Any ideas what I have missed? Regards Ian.

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  407. I re-copoied the .Thunderbird folder and made the permissions match the ..local folder both access and name of who or what had access. Sorry to bother you with my self inflicted problem. Ian.

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  408. I’m getting dependency problems trying to upgrade from 19.3 to 20. It wanted me to fix the broken packages, but doing so just resulted in the same error message (I was going to pastebin my output, but the terminal crashed). Should I just give up and install from scratch?

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  409. i can see 90 % of people having some kind of problem during the update.. i have 10 machines with 19.3 installed on.. Imagine What happens to my time if 90% of them get problem during the update…
    I think i’ll stick to 19.3 till mint team release a more stable version …
    Apart from that linux mint is advertised for it’s simplicity and user friendliness .. Shouldn’t the update be easier through the update manager without the “terminal ” involve of the end user? I also believe that beta release should last longer before the final “stable ” product so most of glitches and bugs could be resolved..

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    1. It happens everytime when major release comes, as I have experienced. One should wait till .1 version and check if it’s viable then, otherwise skip to .2 version and so on. I myself switched from 18.3 to 19.2/19.3 directly.
      By the way, I don’t think its 90% as people who didn’t have any problem are much less likely to report.

    2. Sounds like a good idea if it’s a production system.

      I’ve upgraded 4 systems so far. One had an issue requiring a wipe and clean install but it was a heavily modified system with a lot of custom binaries. The others upgraded without too much issue …In these cases, I did *not* downgrade packages though I did disable foreign sources. The mintupgrade check ran cleanly on these. On the one that failed, there were errors reported that I though were fixed before the upgrade attempt but apparently not so.

      That said, I’m very happy with the new version especially because of the fractional display scaling.

    3. lol 90% of people coming here to comment have problems but that’s the purpose of the comment section. Those people represent maybe 5% of the users who did the upgrade. Try it on one of your PC and you will see for yourself. What do you think you will get by complaining that way ? If you want it easy put the hand in your pocket and go grab a PC with an apple on it. Good luck !

  410. Toimii kuin junan vessa. Hidastui kuitenkin, kun vertaa 19.3 versioon. Päivitys kuitenkin sujuu helposti.

    Mint 20 upgrade my old Toshiba laptop. It was easy work. New Mint is maybe slow, but machine is over 10 years old ; )

    Greetings from Finland

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    1. Working fine for me.
      Remember to log out and back in again after install – or restart the computer – before running the program.

  412. + Running fallback command ‘sudo apt-get install -fyq’…
    Reading package lists…
    Building dependency tree…
    Reading state information…
    Correcting dependencies… failed.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (<= 2.8.22-z) but 2.10.18-1 is installed
    hplip : Depends: python3 (= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-base : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-base-core : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-base-drivers : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-calc : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-core : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-draw : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-gnome : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:6.4.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10 is installed
    Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    libreoffice-gtk3 : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-impress : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-math : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-ogltrans : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-writer : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libsmbclient : Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.17) but 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.3 is installed
    libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installed
    libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 : Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 1.8.0) but it is not installed
    python-samba : Depends: python-tdb but it is not installable
    Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.17) but 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.3 is installed
    python3-apt : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-brlapi : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-cffi-backend : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-crypto : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-cups : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-dbus : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-gi : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-gi-cairo : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-icu : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-markupsafe : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-netifaces : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pam : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-parted : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pil : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-protobuf : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-psutil : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pycurl : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-setproctitle : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-tinycss : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-uno : Depends: python3 (= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    python3-yaml : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    rhythmbox-plugins : Depends: python3 (= 2:2.0.10~) but it is not installed
    Depends: python3-talloc (>= 2.2.0~) but it is not installed
    systemd : Depends: libsystemd0 (= 237-3ubuntu10.41) but 245.4-4ubuntu3.1 is installed
    uno-libs-private : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    ure : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    virtualbox : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
    E: Unable to correct dependencies

    + An issue was detected during the upgrade, running dist-upgrade in manual mode….
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    You might want to run 'apt –fix-broken install' to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (<= 2.8.22-z) but 2.10.18-1 is installed
    hplip : Depends: python3 (= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-base : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-base-core : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-base-drivers : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-calc : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-core : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-draw : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-gnome : Depends: libreoffice-core (= 1:6.4.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10 is installed
    Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    libreoffice-gtk3 : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-impress : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-math : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-ogltrans : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libreoffice-writer : Depends: uno-libs3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    libsmbclient : Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.17) but 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.3 is installed
    libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installed
    libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 : Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 1.8.0) but it is not installed
    python-samba : Depends: python-tdb but it is not installable
    Depends: samba-libs (= 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.17) but 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.3 is installed
    python3-apt : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-brlapi : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-cffi-backend : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-crypto : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-cups : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-dbus : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-gi : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-gi-cairo : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-icu : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-markupsafe : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-netifaces : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pam : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-parted : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pil : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-protobuf : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-psutil : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-pycurl : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-setproctitle : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-tinycss : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    python3-uno : Depends: python3 (= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installable
    python3-yaml : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    rhythmbox-plugins : Depends: python3 (= 2:2.0.10~) but it is not installed
    Depends: python3-talloc (>= 2.2.0~) but it is not installed
    systemd : Depends: libsystemd0 (= 237-3ubuntu10.41) but 245.4-4ubuntu3.1 is installed
    uno-libs-private : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    ure : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    virtualbox : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt –fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to dist-upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    Reply

    1. This looks like PPA versions are breaking the upgrade. Restore the latest snapshot to go back to 19.3, then upgrade mintupgrade to the latest version (which at the moment is 2020.07.17) and re-try the upgrade.

      This new version of mintupgrade will flag any inappropriate APT repository or package version on the system and prevent most issues like the one you experienced.

    2. Clem, I upgraded today morning 17/July @ 9:00 AM
      You have released mintupgrade 2020.07.17 after 9:00AM today?

    3. Yes, and there’s a new version even (2020.07.18), release around midnight here (Irish time). If you already upgraded you’re fine. The new version just refines the checks processed prior to the upgrade.

  413. Let me start by saying I have an old laptop (Medion P6612 with Intel© Core™2 Duo CPU, P7350 @ 2.00GHz × 2, 4 GB Ram, graphics card: NVIDIA Corporation G96CM [GeForce 9600M GS]). Last time I operated the laptop with Linux Mint 19.3 and was very satisfied.
    The upgrade to LM 20 worked without problems and there were no error messages (tested with mintupgrade check before). BUT:
    After rebooting, the laptop stopped booting without any further error messages. I waited quite a long time without anything changing. I had to switch off the device. When I tried again, instead of the animated LM logo I only saw the Linux Mint 20 lettering with the animated dots underneath. The system booted after a while, but my two external hard disk drives (2GB and 4GB each in a Fantec hard disk enclosure, connected via USB and eSATA) were not recognized and could not be mounted.
    I then rebooted the laptop with a different kernel (5.3.0-62-generic) and this time everything worked. However, the message “No caching mode page found – Assuming drive cache: write through” (related to the two external hard drive cases) appears during the boot process.
    I then uninstalled and reinstalled the kernel that came with LM 20 (5.4.0-40, via update management), but this did not solve the problems. Therefore I always start LM 20 with the older kernel.
    Does anyone have any hints?

    Reply

    1. In view of the problems I mentioned above, and since no one can give advice, I have only one question: In my case and considering the relatively old hardware, wouldn’t a fresh installation be better?

    2. I have tried it with a Mint-Live-System (USB stick). Apparently the kernel has a problem with the hardware. When I have connected all devices, including the external hard drive enclosures (which are connected via a USB 3.0 express card), booting with a live-system also fails. The boot process hangs every time the fingerprint reader (generic) is detected. But if I remove the USB express card with the two external drives, the live system boots properly. I wonder what I can do (except buy myself a new laptop)?

  415. Hi everyone,

    A new version of the upgrade tool was added today. It now checks your APT sources and packages to make sure no 3rd party repositories are active and that versions of your installed packages are official. It will now flag anything out of the ordinary.

    We’ve seen a lot of issues with python-gi. We think it’s to do with unofficial versions of packages (3rd party HPLIP versions in particular). This will detect such issues and describe which packages need to be downgraded before continuing with the upgrade.

    Reply

    1. i just tried to upgrade from Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia , all updates applied, 3the party downgraded and removed but mintupgrade states

      + Checking your APT packages…

      – init: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
      – init-system-helpers: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
      – iproute2: 4.18.0-1ubuntu2~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 4.15.0-2ubuntu1.1 (from bionic-updates)
      – smartmontools: 7.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 6.5+svn4324-1 (from bionic)

      ————————————————
      !! ERROR: The packages above have incorrect versions. They need to be downgraded.
      !! Exiting.
      ————————————————

      i’m a bit reluctant to remove and reinstall init 🙂

    2. Hi Gunther,

      It looks like they’re from backports. Going back to official versions shouldn’t be an issue. You also have a snapshot in case I’m wrong.

    3. thankx Clem
      i tested first with iproute2 4.18.0-1ubuntu2~ubuntu18.04. , removing this version removed things like network manager and installing the “official” version did not reinstalled the same dependency’s , so no networking anymore… a quick timeshift restore later all was working again .
      if i hit removal for init in synaptic, besides a “this is critical stuff” warning it will also deinstall “ubuntu-minimal”.. so really not sure that’s a good idea – not tried the actual remove/reinstall yet.
      also bit puzzled where those are coming from, this is my daily driver notebook and i don’t really mess about a lot on this one… Geuss i did install something that triggerd those…

    4. ha and the Software Sources -> Maintenance tab -> Downgrade Foreign Packages. is empty, but i saw a bit lower you guys are looking into issues with this so i’ll try later one again .
      thankx for all the work in any case

    5. Hi Ghunter,

      New updates were sent for mintsources and mintupgrade. Critical packages shouldn’t be listed anymore and mintsources should now list the exact same packages as the upgrade tool.

    6. just further documenting in case someone needs it

      – init:
      – iproute2:
      – smartmontools:

      are now listed in Software Sources -> Maintenance tab -> Downgrade , done this
      init-system-helpers was not listed

      “mintupgrade check” now stated

      “Skipping foreign package init-system-helpers (cannot be removed by aptdaemon, because it’s required or essential).

      – gcc-4.9-base
      – gcc-4.9-base:i386
      – initscripts
      – insserv
      – mountall
      – sysv-rc

      The packages above are not from the official repositories. If you experience issues, or for a safe upgrade, do not continue, remove them and re-run the upgrade. ”

      so i removed those using apt / synaptic and rebooted, took timeshift snapshot

      mintupgrade is now happy, will report back if upgrade fails 🙂

    7. patrick in new mexico trying to send a message to clem….i use cinnimon and love it…thanks for the op system …pkm

  416. ood day! Sorry for my English, translated via google translator!
    The notifications contain a message that the system can be updated to version 20, but the update manager does not find them, and the commands on the terminal did not give positive results. Changed the repositories several times, it did not help. A backup to the version a few days earlier did not help either. Tell me how you can fix the situation, and what you can try.

    Reply

  417. After the update to mint 20 my mp4 video’s were changed to mp3 and all i get is sound no video.

    Reply

  418. I just ran mintupgrade check and had the following issues:

    – init: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
    – init-system-helpers: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
    – iproute2: 4.18.0-1ubuntu2~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 4.15.0-2ubuntu1.1 (from bionic-updates)

    How do I fix this?

    Steve

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  419. After running “$ mintupgrade check” I get this message:

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: The packages above have incorrect versions. They need to be downgraded.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    + Restoring your backed up APT sources…

    I have successfully upgraded my Linux Mint installation from version 19 “Tara” to 19.3 “Tricia”.
    Could you please help to solve this issue 🙂
    Thanks in advance!

    Reply

    1. You didn’t say paste the relevant list of packages. In any case, use Software Sources -> Maintenance tab -> Downgrade Foreign Packages.

    1. Thanks Freddy,

      It looks like mintsources isn’t finding “all” the foreign packages, we’ll get this fixed ASAP.

  421. I tried to upgrade from 19 to 20. About half way through the install process everything froze. Now I cannot boot 19 or 20. The only thing I can do is access the BIOS screen. Can someone help?!!!

    Reply

  422. Apparently, using mintupgrade under the Bungie desktop does not work. I did all the precursor work, check, download, etc, and when I started the final mintupgrade process, about 30 minutes into the process, all sorts of errors begin showing up. Finally, it reported too many errors and exited. The errors were around python 3.8 issues. In that very session, I tried to run mintupgrade again and it flat out refused to run. So now I am left with a broken install. I can get to a CLI but it will not start the windows servers X11. I have Linux experience but I’m not an admin-type person. I’ve tried everything I know to do; sudo apt update, sudo apt reinstall python, etc, etc, and I am unable to make any progress. It seems I am stuck in a black hole somewhere between 19.x and 20.x. Libraries missing, dependencies broken, python broken, on and on.

    So, since everyone else seems to have had a reasonably successful upgrade, the only thing I can think of is the fact that I was under Bungie instead of Cinnamon. You may want to warn people about this matter.

    If anyone cares to take a stab at helping my fix my mess, please feel free to comment. Thx.

    Reply

    1. I had something similar.
      Had issue s with upgrade, used timeshift to restore 19.3. Removed all the packages it had issues with and wanted to try upgrade again, but it will not start the actual upgrade. But also does not give any error message.

      Executing ‘upgrade’. This will perform the following:

      1 – Your repositories will be switched to point to Linux Mint 20 ‘Ulyana’ and
      any 3rd party repositories will be removed. A backup of your APT sources
      will be written to /home/user/Upgrade-Backup-tricia/APT.

      2 – The packages and updates to perform the upgrade will be downloaded.

      3 – Upon confirmation, the upgrade will be performed. It is very important not to interrupt this
      step. You may be required to interact or re-authenticate during the upgrade.

      Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

      + Checking your Linux Mint codename…

      + Checking your Linux Mint edition…

      + Checking your Timeshift configuration…

      + Checking your APT repositories…

      + Checking your APT packages…

  423. There is a minor error in the display of the menu in the German language.
    In the “Recently used documents” section there is the option to delete the list.
    There it says “Liste lee …” Fully written out it reads correctly: “Liste leeren”. Instead of the three points you can add the missing letters. It makes no sense to use “…” if there are only three letters missing. 😉

    Reply

  424. Today there was the upgrade of pulseaudio package and now to hear the beep in terminal I have to run ‘pulseaudio -k’ at each boot… -:(

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  425. All went fine it seems. Upgraded from 19.3 to 20. WiFi = ok, but wired network does not work.
    THANK YOU @Pongrácz István AT July 10, 2020 at 7:36 am
    Your fix worked like a charm!
    Wired network is up and running.

    Reply

  426. Clem,

    I couldn’t fix that issue by downgrading foreign packages, because there was nothing in that section to downgrade. But I fixed it by going to etc/apt/sources.list.d and deleting all the ppa text files that had been left behind. Then I went ahead with the download and had to sudo apt autoremove a few things. Then I went ahead and installed 20.04 and it all went in without issue. So I guess that everything went pretty smoothly.

    Thanks,

    Steve

    Reply

  427. Thanks for the time and work spent getting the upgrade together, it worked wonderfully for me.

    Question: Is it safe to remove the “mintupgrade” package after successfully upgrading?

    Reply

  428. Tried apt mintupgrade 2020.07.18
    Problem not resolved. PPA versions are breaking the upgrade again. And I dont see any PPA on software sources??

    Also after mintupgrade check all removed foreign packages restoring in software sources tool.
    I restart linuxmint and removed them again before mintupgrade download/upgrade

    Still getting same problems……….

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo apt-get install -fyq’…
    Reading package lists…
    Building dependency tree…
    Reading state information…
    Correcting dependencies… failed.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (<= 2.8.22-z) but 2.10.18-1 is installed
    hplip : Depends: python3 (= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installable

    python3-yaml : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    rhythmbox-plugins : Depends: python3 (= 2:2.0.10~) but it is not installed
    Depends: python3-talloc (>= 2.2.0~) but it is not installed
    systemd : Depends: libsystemd0 (= 237-3ubuntu10.41) but 245.4-4ubuntu3.1 is installed
    uno-libs-private : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.1.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    ure : Depends: libuno-cppu3 (>= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    Depends: libuno-sal3 (>= 5.3.0~alpha) but it is not installed
    virtualbox : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt –fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to dist-upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    Reply

    1. Did mintupgrade check succeed with 2020.07.18? Regarding mintsources, there’s a new version which fixes the foreign packages detection, it’s 2.0.0.1.

      Can you restore your snapshot, and paste the output of “apt policy gimp”, “apt policy hplip” and “apt policy libgimp2.0”?

    2. Thanks Clem.

      gimp:
      Installed: 2.8.22-1
      Candidate: 2.8.22-1
      Version table:
      *** 2.8.22-1 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
      100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

      hplip:
      Installed: 3.17.10+repack0-5
      Candidate: 3.17.10+repack0-5
      Version table:
      *** 3.17.10+repack0-5 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
      100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

      libgimp2.0:
      Installed: 2.8.22-1
      Candidate: 2.8.22-1
      Version table:
      *** 2.8.22-1 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
      100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

      libreoffice-base:
      Installed: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
      Candidate: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
      Version table:
      *** 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages
      500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe amd64 Packages
      100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages

      python3-uno:
      Installed: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
      Candidate: 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10
      Version table:
      *** 1:6.0.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.10 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
      500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages
      100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 500
      500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

    3. Sorry Ram,

      This doesn’t make sense to me.. when you run mintupgrade you get “hplip : Depends: python3 (= 4.4.0~alpha) but it is not installable”… I don’t understand this.

      In mint 19.3, hplip 3.17.10+repack0-5 depends on python3 (<< 3.7) and python3 (>= 3.6~).
      In mint 20, hplip 3.20.3+dfsg0-2 depends on python3 (<< 3.9) and python3 (>= 3.8~).

      Neither of these versions depend on python3 (= 4.4.0~alpha). Yet you’re saying your version of hplip is 3.17.10+repack0-5?? I don’t get this…

      The other thing I don’t get is where you got python3 4.4.0 from… it’s 3.6.7-1~18.04 in mint 19.3 and 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 in mint 20.

      If you have python3 4.4.0 then it’s normal it breaks the upgrade. It’s a foreign version. I think mintupgrade doesn’t stop you because it considers it a critical package. Can you tell me where you got it from so we can reproduce this here?

    4. Did mintupgrade check succeed with 2020.07.18?

      Yes, always. But restores foreign packages after check.
      But fails on upgrade with.

      Do you want me to install using apt install libreoffice-base for all uninstalled packa
      ges ? I assume upgrademint should get all the packages from repository.

    5. Dear Clem,

      The below you was asking me after failed upgrade.
      Can you restore your snapshot, and paste the output of “apt policy gimp”, “apt policy hplip” and “apt policy libgimp2.0”?

      So, I restored my 19.3 mint snapshot and ran the “apt policy gimp”, “apt policy hplip” and “apt policy libgimp2.0”

      Do you want me to upgrade and ran the “apt policy gimp”, “apt policy hplip” and “apt policy libgimp2.0” commands ?

    6. pre-upgrade, I don’t understand where python3 (4.4.0~alpha) comes from. Can you run “apt policy python3”?

      I also don’t understand why hplip would depend on it… since the version apt policy says you have does not.

  429. I’ve tried the new mint tool to upgrade. It doesn’t download anything, quitting without saying any error. I think it’s because of undetected foreign packages. Therefore I am thinking to stay with my 19.3 for my desktop machine.
    May I thank you for all you’ve done for this new upgrade and how seriously you follow users.

    Reply

    1. Can you confirm your versions of mintsources and mintupgrade (“apt version mintsources”, “apt version mintupgrade”) and paste the output of “mintupgrade check”?

  430. The following updates were sent to remove dependencies on python-gi:

    – mintmenu 6.0.5.1
    – mintupload 4.1.8
    – blueberry 1.3.4.1

    Note that these weren’t responsible for the python-gi errors some people are getting, but they’ll make it easier to remove python-gi, as a workaround, prior to upgrading.

    Reply

  431. Not just the issues to upgrade from Linux Mint 19.3 to 20, but now even with mintupgrade (Linux Mint / tricia) 2020.07.11 to 2020.07.17.1
    🙁

    W: Die Datei »http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintupgrade/mintupgrade_2020.07.17.1_all.deb« konnte nicht heruntergeladen werden
    404 Not Found [IP: 68.235.39.11 80]

    Any idea? Thanks in advance.

    Reply

  432. I’ve been with Linux mint since 19.0 and its been upgraded to 19.3. So when 19.20 was announced I’m thinking alright. However a big disappointment. The desktop colors look washed out, new features……. ah excuse me?. Some apps do not work anymore. I read the release notes and expected some apps to not work. Chrominum……. Why? I never had a problem with it. Gradio…… Why? I liked it for internet radio. The app to replace it is ok but far less internet stations.
    The end of mint 19.20 for me was when it went into fallback mode?? what is that? For no reason that I could find it just booted up and went into fallback mode. As I’m a point and click user and the command line is not my area experince. It was far easyer for me to go back to the OS I know best, mint 19.3
    When 19.20 is finally a reliable OS I may go back and try it again but for now its 19.3

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  433. Finally after 3 attempts to upgrade from mint 19.3 I succeeded ! My main problem was that I had a lot of extra programs (deb or other sources) mainly needed in chemistry and statistics. After deleting them all, including some extra repos, mintupgrade system worked normal. Obviously I had to reinstall some programs. The main issue was missing qt4 system, which I had to install from an ubuntu-agreed repo. The only program that I can not reinstall was avogadro 1.2 (Chemistry modelling). This was replaced by Avogadro2 which is in pre-alfa stage, based on qt5. Otherwise everything else work now as expected. For those interested in avogadro 1.2 the next link point to a variant based on qt4: https://avogadro-yaehmop.github.io/ . For qt4 instalation I used the next repo: https://ossmalta.eu/how-to-install-qt4-libraries-in-ubuntu-20-04-lts/ . A special thank for the team and to TimeShift creators, a program that helped me a lot!

    Reply

    2. Paket mountall kann nicht entfernt werden

      Paket insserv kann nicht entfernt werden

      Paket libprocps4 kann nicht entfernt werden

      Paket libcryptsetup4 kann nicht entfernt werden

      …

  435. After the upgrade, my machine is better than before. I’m shocked! I had my doubts that the upgrade would succeed considering all the customizations I had in place. It’s gone better than I could have possibly expected. My fans were going wide open half the time before the upgrade. I should have downgraded and removed foreign packages a long time ago and slowly added them back to find what had made my system run so poorly. Learn something new every day. There were all sorts of small bugs that were annoying but not worth doing a fresh installation due to time constraints. Those are all gone now.

    There was one issue during the upgrade though. My screen started turning red and it looked like qRedshift was making the screen darker. It stayed a little darker for a few minutes then started increasing until I could no longer see the screen. I tried ctrl+alt+f1 and still couldn’t see the screen. It had me a bit worried but I left it alone for a few more minutes. This is not a slow laptop by any means so I knew it wasn’t going to take hours. Finally, I decided to reboot and Mint 20 came right up and everything was fine. I was expecting to have to go back to the last backup.

    Kudos to the Mint team for a fantastic new version!!!!

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  436. My Problem is , when I take mintupgrade check
    , then I became this . ERROR: The packages above have incorrect versions. They need to be downgraded. what can I do ?
    Thanks for answers
    Ludger

    Reply

    1. Thanks Ludger, we rephrased the error message to make it more helpful. You need to go in Software Sources -> Maintenance -> Downgrade Foreign Packages.

      Make sure you upgrade to the latest mintsources and mintupgrade also. We just released new ones right now.

  437. The following updated were sent today:

    – mintupgrade 2020.07.18.1
    – mintsources 2.0.0.2

    They now flag and make it possible to downgrade critical packages.

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  438. The upgrade worked flawlessly on a circa 2008 MacBook 3,1 with SSD. Thanks Clem.

    The only minor issue after upgrade was that I did need to keep software sources at defaults, because the local one, EvoWise CDN, fails at present; 18 July 2020.

    Reply

    1. Hi rwb,

      Evowise mirrors go down more than most others in my experience. When they’re up, they’re often the fastest, but because they constantly go down, I never use them.

  439. Clem if you could make this upgrade totally automatic, not having to do anything manual, it would be a winner for many Linux Mint newbies, just my thoughts.

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  440. Hi,

    After the update I does indeed do want to re-install again.

    But now I run into a issue with “mintupgrade check”, and when I want to remove these packages, it tells me they can’t be removed, because they are part of ubuntu.
    – initscripts
    – insserv
    – libcryptsetup4
    – libprocps4
    – mountall
    – sysv-rc

    The packages above are not from the official repositories. If you experience issues, or for a safe upgrade, do not continue, remove them and re-run the upgrade.

    When I ignore this, it gives me a lot or errors are warnings linked with python3, so I went back to the state before the update with timeshift

    Reply

    1. Hi Peter,

      You can remove these. They no longer exist in Ubuntu.

      Can you show me your version of python3 (apt policy python3)? and what errors you’re getting?

    2. *Should/can we remove ALL these packages? *

      + Checking your APT packages…

      – cgmanager
      – code
      – consolekit
      – gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10
      – gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10
      – gksu
      – gstreamer0.10-alsa
      – gstreamer0.10-gconf
      – gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
      – gstreamer0.10-nice
      – gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
      – gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps
      – gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
      – gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
      – gstreamer0.10-tools
      – gstreamer0.10-x
      – gstreamer1.0-clutter
      – hardening-includes
      – initscripts
      – insserv
      – iproute
      – kerneloops-daemon
      – libamd2.4.1
      – libass5
      – libavcodec-ffmpeg-extra56
      – libavfilter-ffmpeg5
      – libavformat-ffmpeg56
      – libavresample-ffmpeg2
      – libavutil-ffmpeg54
      – libbind9-140
      – libblas-common
      – libbluray1
      – libboost-date-time1.58.0
      – libboost-filesystem1.58.0
      – libboost-iostreams1.58.0
      – libboost-system1.58.0
      – libcamd2.4.1
      – libcamel-1.2-54
      – libcapnp-0.5.3
      – libccolamd2.9.1
      – libcdio-cdda1
      – libcdio-paranoia1
      – libcdio13
      – libcgmanager0
      – libcholmod3.0.6
      – libck-connector0
      – libcolamd2.9.1
      – libcryptsetup4
      – libdns-export162
      – libdns162
      – libebook-1.2-16
      – libedataserver-1.2-21
      – libedataserverui-1.2-1
      – libefivar0
      – libegl1-mesa-drivers
      – libevent-2.0-5
      – libfwup0
      – libfwupd1
      – libgcr-3-common
      – libgdbm3
      – libgksu2-0
      – libgles1-mesa
      – libglew1.13
      – libgnome-desktop-3-12
      – libgrilo-0.2-1
      – libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
      – libgstreamer0.10-0
      – libgtop-2.0-10
      – libgweather-3-6
      – libhunspell-1.3-0
      – libical1a
      – libicu55
      – libisc-export160
      – libisc160
      – libisccc140
      – libisccfg140
      – libjasper1
      – libjson-c2
      – liblouis9
      – liblwres141
      – libmpfr4
      – libnm-gtk-common
      – libnma-common
      – libopencv-calib3d2.4v5
      – libopencv-contrib2.4v5
      – libopencv-core2.4v5
      – libopencv-features2d2.4v5
      – libopencv-flann2.4v5
      – libopencv-highgui2.4v5
      – libopencv-imgproc2.4v5
      – libopencv-legacy2.4v5
      – libopencv-ml2.4v5
      – libopencv-objdetect2.4v5
      – libopencv-video2.4v5
      – libopenjpeg5
      – liborcus-0.10-0v5
      – libpackagekit-glib2-16
      – libpam-ck-connector
      – libpeas-1.0-0-python2loader
      – libpng12-0
      – libpng12-0:i386
      – libpoppler58
      – libpostproc-ffmpeg53
      – libprocps4
      – libprotobuf-lite9v5
      – libprotobuf9v5
      – libprotoc9v5
      – libpython3.5
      – libpython3.5-minimal
      – libpython3.5-stdlib
      – libqmi-glib1
      – libqpdf17
      – libquvi-scripts
      – libquvi7
      – libraw15
      – libreadline6
      – libreoffice-style-mint
      – librhythmbox-core9
      – libruby2.3
      – libschroedinger-1.0-0
      – libsox2
      – libsuitesparseconfig4.4.6
      – libswresample-ffmpeg1
      – libswscale-ffmpeg3
      – libtidy-0.99-0
      – libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
      – libumfpack5.7.1
      – libunistring0
      – libva1
      – libvpx3
      – libwebp5
      – libwebpmux1
      – libwebrtc-audio-processing-0
      – libx264-148
      – libx265-79
      – libxapian-1.3-5
      – libxapian22v5
      – libxfont1
      – libxtables11
      – mint-user-guide-cinnamon
      – mountall
      – myspell-en-gb
      – myspell-en-za
      – myspell-it
      – ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
      – oneconf-common
      – python-debtagshw
      – python-gnomekeyring
      – python-imaging
      – python-oneconf
      – python-ubuntu-sso-client
      – python-webkit
      – python3-livestreamer
      – python3.5
      – python3.5-minimal
      – ruby2.3
      – signon-ui
      – sysv-rc
      – toshset

      The packages above are not from the official repositories. If you experience issues, or for a safe upgrade, do not continue, remove them with ‘Software Sources -> Maintenance -> Remove Foreign Packages’ and re-run the upgrade.

    3. Looks as if we cannot remove them? Anything we missed or doing incorrect?

      Paket mountall kann nicht entfernt werden

      Paket insserv kann nicht entfernt werden

      Paket libprocps4 kann nicht entfernt werden

      Paket libcryptsetup4 kann nicht entfernt werden

      …

    4. Hi Heinz,

      Although they’re not needed anymore, these packages were “critical” packages in previous releases (Mint 17 or older). Aptdaemon (which is used by Software Sources) cannot remove them. You can remove them from the command line though: “apt remove mountall insserv libprocps4 libcryptsetup4”.

    6. It still does not work

      dpkg: error processing package python3-gi (–configure):
      dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
      No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
      Errors were encountered while processing:
      python3
      python3-gi
      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

      + An issue was detected during the upgrade, running dist-upgrade in manual mode….
      Reading package lists… Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information… Done
      You might want to run ‘apt –fix-broken install’ to correct these.
      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      aptitude : Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 (>= 1.1) but it is not installable
      hplip : Depends: python3 (= 1.1~exp9) but it is not installable
      libept1.5.0 : Depends: libapt-pkg5.0 (>= 1.1~exp9) but it is not installable
      libgail18 : Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.24.32-4ubuntu4) but 2.24.32-1ubuntu1 is installed
      libglib2.0-bin : Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.6) but 2.64.3-1~ubuntu20.04.1 is installed
      libglib2.0-dev : Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.56.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.6) but 2.64.3-1~ubuntu20.04.1 is installed
      libharfbuzz-dev : Depends: gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 (= 2.6.4-1ubuntu4) but 1.7.2-1ubuntu1 is installed
      onboard : Depends: python3 (= 3.26.1-2ubuntu1) but it is not installed
      python-pyatspi : Depends: python-gi (>= 2.90.1) but it is not installed
      python3-apt : Depends: python3 (= 1.6.5~) but it is not installable
      python3-brlapi : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
      python3-cairo : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
      python3-cffi-backend : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
      python3-crypto : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
      python3-cups : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
      python3-dbus : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
      python3-gi-cairo : Depends: python3 (< 3.7) but 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 is installed
      Depends: python3-gi (= 3.26.1-2ubuntu1) but 3.36.0-1 is installed
      python3-pycurl : Depends: python3 (= 1.1~exp9) but it is not installable
      E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt –fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

      ————————————————
      !! ERROR: Failed to dist-upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
      !! Exiting.
      ————————————————

  442. When I do the check I got that :

    + Checking your APT packages…

    – debhelper: 12.1.1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 11.1.6ubuntu2 (from bionic-updates)
    – dh-autoreconf: 19~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 17 (from bionic)
    – init: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
    – init-system-helpers: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
    – iproute2: 4.18.0-1ubuntu2~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 4.15.0-2ubuntu1.1 (from bionic-updates)
    – minetest: 5.3.0-ppa0~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 0.4.16+repack-4 (from bionic)
    – xdg-desktop-portal-gtk: 1.0.2-flatpak1~xenial, should be 1.0.2-0ubuntu1.1 (from bionic-updates)

    For most of them I don’t really care about a downgrade but for Minetest I don’t want and in fact I cannot downgrade without breaking the game because i would not be able to load the upgraded maps. Is there a way to tell the upgrade tool to “just don’t care” and proceed with the upgrade by ignoring a single or all those packages ?
    I’m sure there are good reasons for doing it that way but it’s a little strange needing to downgrade programs to upgrade the OS…

    Also by the way I don’t know why but I upgraded one of my PCs to LM20 on the 17th and it did the upgrade without complaining about Minetest being at 5.3.0

    Thanks a lot !

    Reply

    1. Hi Mitch,

      You can add the minetest PPA again (for 20.04 this time) post-upgrade and re-upgrade minetest later.

  444. This is one of the worst UI experiences I’ve ever seen. A routine upgrade for an OS that has a gentoo like instruction manual where you have to dig inside the guts of the package manager and packages and essentially guess which packages are “system critical” and which aren’t, you have to “remove”/”downgrade” them before and AFTER (?!?) the upgrade and you have to guess what a “foreign package” means when you never even installed/handled something like that.

    Then the installer says things like “perform your favorite superstitious prayers” or whatever it was. I would never recommend an OS that instructs the user to pray before performing a routine upgrade. Even most beta software doesn’t instruct the user to pray before installation (much less an upgrade). And before you say “well but this is an OS”, this still doesn’t justify it! Windows can break the upgrade, but it would never ask you to start digging into the registry and modifying keys for an upgrade. When that point comes they tell you to take it to a tech at worst and they try to AVOID it – it’s certainly not the default behavior.

    The next beautiful part is telling the user “watch this screen carefully” and then proceeding to dump about a hundred lines a second on screen that might as well be in Chinese. This is something that even a developer wouldn’t do – a developer would at best save the log and then filter according to errors/warnings. It would be impossible for a human being to monitor logs of an automatic operation with thousands of lines of logs and it’s a pretty ridiculous thing to ask the user to do.

    Finally we get to the weird aftermath of the upgrade. Before the update I had around 4 packages to “downgrade” (what does that even mean?). I had 0 foreign packages to “remove”. After the upgrade I have hundreds of “foreign packages” which the manual instructs me to “remove unnecessary packages” (what?!? you installed them!! how am i supposed to know which ones are necessary and which aren’t). Most of which are libraries that I obviously never manually installed or even know what they are (e.g. “liborbit2”, “libprocps6”, “libnih1”, “libnm-glib4”, “gcc-6-base”). Also trying to select all of them and remove them results in weird installations at best and at worst in an error that these packages can’t be removed because they are “critical to the system”. So now I have to manually mark 10 packages at a time (out of more than a hundred) and try to remove them, while discovering the “system critical” packages and retrying when they cause the removal to fail. Needless to say I have no clue what these packages do, why they are there, and if this is going to completely break my system.

    This was a truly horrendous upgrade experience, and it’s getting worse every year.

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    1. I apologize for the aggressive tone BTW. There were a lot of scary points during the upgrade – e.g. the multitude of warnings that “THIS IS NON REVERSIBLE” and that I need to perform superstitious tricks for good luck and even an “ERROR” during the “irreversible” upgrade stage where I ran out of space. It took me around a day to successfully upgrade and forced me to remove things that I don’t know anything about, so I don’t know if this isn’t going to come back to bite me down the road.

      There’s also no upside in this for me because nothing I saw in the release notes really interested me, so it was generally disappointing to have to spend a day and get scared of losing all my data a couple of times to get nothing in return.

      I’m just looking for a consistent, stable, hassle free, “KISS” experience. I seldom use any of the “bells and whistles” that come with the releases and I’m just looking for the basic functions. For instance I would be much happier if I could disable “adaptive” mouse acceleration and have the system remember it, instead of having to do “xset m default” every time I boot. The same goes for the sound crackling I have been getting consistently for years at some random point in time after boot (probably related to multiple audio streams playing at the same time), which I currently resolve by changing the audio output device from digital to analog and back again every time it happens.

      I feel like users looking for a simple KISS experience (i.e. me) aren’t really considered most of the time.

      Having said that, I’d still like to say thank you to the maintainers which I’m sure worked hard on the release.

    2. @Doesn’t Matter,

      I realize you’re frustrated and maybe aren’t looking for a reply, but in any event, and respectfully:

      — There was no imperative to upgrade, it’s not something that you had to do, at least not for the next several years, and definitely not in a hurry.
      — The instructions are quite clear that it is essential to understand the apt package manager, its terminology, its output, and the basics of package management before upgrading, and refers users who need help with that to places they can get it before upgrading.
      — The bit about “prayers,” wherever you noticed that (I don’t recall making note of that during the upgrade) was surely meant in mirth, and not as a literal instructional posture.
      — Re: “The next beautiful part is telling the user “watch this screen carefully” and then proceeding to dump about a hundred lines a second on screen that might as well be in Chinese.” Chinese is not gibberish; those who understand Chinese know quite well what to do with it. Which is to say, again, the instructions were quite clear that if you cannot interpret this output, you should seek help before attempting the upgrade. The upgrade has a “check” routine that simulates what the update would do prior to conducting it, which would have given an opportunity to investigate it with help from others prior to proceeding with the upgrade.
      — The foreign packages won’t break your system, so you don’t need to worry about that. It’s just that they’re redundant after the upgrade; they’re packages leftover from your prior Mint installation that are sitting on your system taking up space needlessly but harmlessly. Now, three of them are evidently showing as foreign but cannot be removed, which I’ve reported below (as did someone else previously, above). That is indeed an error or glitch of some kind, and I had the same frustrating experience trying to sift through all those packages without being able to bulk remove them without an error message, so I hear you on that one. Hopefully someone from the Mint Team will be able to address it.
      — More generally, I’d say, if you’re stuck or frustrated or reluctant to do something with your system, just ask for help. Somebody will help you, you just have to give them the chance.

    3. @Corey W.

      Thanks for the response (in spite of my tone, which was too harsh in retrospect).

      About your points:

      1) The way I see it, while the upgrade isn’t “mandatory”, it is still pinned as a “system message”. It’s also unfair to say that the upgrade isn’t mandatory when it’s literally the next iteration of the software. I’m assuming that if I avoid it then I will never get “newer” software (i.e. newer (“major”) versions of software rather than just “minor” version updates). I also really don’t want to be on an old release which from my experience doesn’t even get half the effort that is dedicated to the “master” branch. I would also be “stuck” because I won’t be able to wait for a newer version since that would probably require me to upgrade to this version first. Basically saying that the upgrade isn’t mandatory is like saying that I’m free to always stay with the same version of software and never update it, even though I obviously want updates, just not updates (or in this case upgrades) that break the system.
      2) As a developer that often works with package management systems, I can tell you that from my experience these are highly complex systems. Asking someone to “understand” the system is like asking someone to understand highly sophisticated systems like GNU make just to be able to compile a program. While many experienced linux users know how to use them effectively, an average user (and by this I mean even experienced developers with zero experience with the software) would take a while learning how to use them, let alone understanding the concepts involved with them. I’m not trying to lecture you here, but for me when someone tells me “well I referred you to the manpage” that’s completely unfair since it’s the same as your mechanic “referring” you to your car’s service manual when you’re changing the oil in your car. A simple service task shouldn’t require the user to have a deep understanding of how the system operates.
      Additionally, a big problem with apt/package managers is that every repo has their own names for their packages. So even if you understand the concepts of apt well, you still won’t know which package to install to get which component. For instance even with libraries, many repos have different names for the packages with the same library (i.e. the same source code) and sometimes repos “split” the artifacts of the projects in different ways to completely different packages. So when upgrading you have to know which new package replaces which old package – something which pretty much only maintainers or developers of the system can know (BTW that’s probably the reason for all the superfluous packages – although in this case (I’m guessing here) it’s even worse since it’s more than likely that ubuntu changed some packages themselves and now you have to figure out which old packages in both ubuntu and mint are no longer necessary).
      3) About the “superstitions” – I understand the intent behind it, but after all remember that I’ve got personal data on my system that’s very important to me. Imagine your car screen showing you an alert reading “something went wrong but we’re trying to recover! cross your fingers and hope you don’t lose control of the breaks!”. Would you find that funny going 90 on the highway? As someone not involved with development I don’t know what the consequences of “something might go wrong” are (e.g. complete loss of data), which is why it’s hard for me to see the humor in it. That’s the reason they have the “what to do if something goes wrong” that has the title “don’t panic”. Unfortunately I don’t know which text takes precedence – should I believe the text in mintupgrade saying “cross your fingers”? Should I believe the text on the website that says “if something goes wrong don’t panic”? If I shouldn’t panic then don’t give me scary messages in the console in the first place.
      4) I actually performed the check operation successfully. And believe me I can read (some) of the output. The problem is that it’s literally a log of apt going through addition/removal of packages, and it’s unreasonable to ask a user to parse the output. Like I said, most of the software I’ve ever seen would store output in a log (when it’s hundreds of lines) and would filter only errors/warnings to display to the user. I’ve done the same for every app I’ve ever developed where logging is important and not just there so that you can read the last lines when the app errors out. I always store in a log and filter only warnings and errors (and sometimes info level messages)).
      5) I appreciate your offer for help, and I have no complaints for the team for their intentions or for the upgrade itself for that matter. My problem is specifically with how this played out – I expected a simple upgrade process – since after all I look at it as just a simple upgrade – same as when upgrading intellij from year X to year X+1, same as upgrading kernel 4.X to 4.X+1, same as upgrading python 3.X to 3.X+1. Maybe I’m wrong and this upgrade was more like going from python 2.X to python 3.X – which is fine – but at least give me a warning that this is what I’m supposed to expect.

  447. Formerly mint nersion updates were via graphical interface program. Now it is not so – no problem, I am a commandline lover. I ran “mintupgrade upgrade” and after all thigs it said it said that:

    !! ERROR: The following 3rd party repositories were detected. Disable them and refresh your APT cache.

    – MariaDB (MariaDB) – http://ftp.utexas.edu
    – rtbth dkms (LP-PPA-blaze-rtbth-dkms) – ppa.launchpad.net

    !! Exiting.

    So – I cannot have MariaDB on my laptop. What is the sense? It had never been like this before.

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    2. You needn’t uninstall the software. You need only disable the PPAs. In Mint Cinnamon, go to Software Sources > PPAs and uncheck all the boxes. Then click OK when prompted to refresh your cache. Now continue with or restart the Mint upgrade process. After the upgrade, you can re-enable the PPAs, refresh the cache, and update your software if need be.

  448. Running Mint Upgrade..
    – xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-440: 440.100-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, should be 440.100-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (from bionic-updates)

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: The packages above have incorrect versions. They can be downgraded using ‘Software Sources -> Maintenance -> Downgrade Foreign Packages’.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    When I try this I get..
    You might want to run ‘apt –fix-broken install’ to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    xserver-xorg-core : Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting
    xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04 : Conflicts: xserver-xorg-core
    Conflicts: xserver-xorg-video-modesetting
    xorg-xorg-hwe-18.04 : Conflicts: xserver-xorg
    Conflicts: xserver-xorg-core (>= 0~)
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt –fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

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  449. _Problem_with_the_Live_DVD_for_Mint_20_: It works on two of my machines but not on this one. I have burned it on three different DVD-writers and tried to boot this machine with these DVDs using three different DVD-readers including a USB-connected one. (This machine has no USB stick boot capabilities). The ISO has been verified, and the DVDs were verified both during burning, and afterward (dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/dev/sr0 reports no errors.) The boot process gets as far as the boot menu. Beyond that, the process gets as far as displaying a circular linux mint logo centre screen; then nothing further happens. One of my DVD drives clicks repeatedly). By pressing escape I find a screen full of of “BusyBox” error messages such as:
    (initramfs) mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /files/esystem.squashfs failed: No such device
    can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on /filesystem.squashfs
    /init: line49: can’t open /dev/sr0: No medium found
    stdin Not a typewriter
    ln: /tmp/mountroot-fail-hooks.d//scripts/init-premount/lvm2: No such file or directory
    etc., etc.
    And this goes rolling on indefinitely.

    I forgot to say – my Linux MInt 19.3 DVD boots OK on this machine.

    Best wishes,
    Mark

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  450. Finally it worked 😉
    Removing python-gi did at last the trick.
    Runs smooth and snappy now! Congrats to the developers!
    But upgrading was a hard way this time. Nothing for simple users… Do not know why but you will surely have a good reason for this way.
    Thanks a lot for this great and free piece of software and have a good and nice summertime!

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  451. Regarding previous discussion, it turns out all the errors for updating Mint 19x is that a lot of mirror sites (or most/all?) are broken. The only way I could get it to work is restore default settings). Not sure if this is a Mint issue or ubuntu. YIKES !

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  452. I noticed, after the upgrade, synaptic lists the following packages as “Installed (local or obsolete)”. Can they be safely removed?
    I am bumping Neil Darlow’s question from July 12th, because I’ve noticed the same thing. After upgrade the following packages are identified as foreign:
    libnih1-1.0.3-6ubuntu2
    libprocps6-2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1
    ureadahead-0.100.0-21

    However, when attempting to remove them via the Maintenance utility, they fail, with a message that they are critical packages. Any idea what’s causing the contradiction? I was reluctant to try removing them via command line. Thanks in advance for any insight.

    Reply

    1. I had a similar problem with the ureadahead package being critical but listed as a foreign package. Using Software Sources / Maintenance / Fix MergeList problems, then refreshing the apt cache resolved the issue. (Maybe just the apt cache refresh was all that was needed?)

  453. I’m running an recently had freeze problems, which I suspect were connected to one of the kernel updates. Using an old kernel ended the problem. I’ll back up my laptop with Clonezilla as well as do a timeshift(I’ve not used it to restore so I’m a little concerned about the process.)
    My big concern is that I am running BricsCAD, which runs well, but because it has a license I wonder exactly what is being updated in Linux Mint 20. Updating to 19.3 without deactivating BricsCAD went smoothly, but I suspect that GCC libraries might create problems. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I’ve been running LM for a couple of years with not real problems, but, as I said, though I do run timeshift using an external usb drive as well as using Clonezilla, I’d like this upgrade a smooth one. I’m too much a Linux Mint novice to know if I should wait on this upgrade. I use a local repository for BricsCAD as well as ExpressVPN and drivers for my photo scanner. Thanks

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  454. I have a strange problem. Multiple PC’s / laptop converted smoothly. (thanks team)
    been a bit too enthusiastic with “removing foreign packages”. That did cost me some 32 bit windows applications in wine 🙁
    But as all been solved now. I am really enthusiastic about the NVIDIA on demand option.
    But my HP 2130 deskjet prints everything but text ???
    Newly installed, did tryed it over USB and over a printer server the same result. Motzilla mail, Writer and other programs all the same. Logos lines pictures no problem but no text. Test page no problem.
    no error messages whats so ever
    Someone making suggestions?

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  455. I give up – this installer requires me to remove most of the software. Even though the initial bug I submitted is fixed (in a sense I can get get past this step), after following the procedure (downgrading zillions of packages, disabling the extra repos – btw it tells me to do it in reverse order, which prevents me from downgrading) in the end the process asks me to remove three libraries that are dependencies for zillion other libraries.
    I’ll wait for better days.

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    1. Same here it just drives me mad, love the system, but it could be more user friendly, we are not all sys admins

  456. Hello,
    I juste post a thumbs up comment. Tried the upgrade process from a fresh install of 19.3 on a Lenovo B590, just to see how it ran.
    So without any extraneous repositories of course and special software, the upgrade process went really smoothly without any problems. Really good job you did with the mintupgrade script !

    Just one remark : the process has been interrupted by prompts for the admin password two or three times. It slows the process when running it unattended, because when you come back to the computer instead of finding it done, you have to type the password and wait again. I understand it certainly a problem of grace period of sudo, but it would be nice to overcome it for the sake of smoothness.

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  457. Echoing what others have said about ‘foreign’ packages. I had a handful of foreign packages to downgrade but then 113 listed for deletion. After omitting 4 ‘essential’ packages and still getting more identified as ‘essential’ (one at a time) I gave up and did the upgrade anyway.

    I’ve never used any 3rd party repos or PPAs so I can only think these 113 packages are associated with the original CD install disk as a repo. Is that a bug?

    Anyway, all good except for the inevitable `Warning: No support for locale: en_GB.utf8`. Seems that will never go away.

    So question: if these ‘foreign’ packages are not a higher version than the ones about to be installed, why is it necessary to delete them?

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  458. Remarks on Mint 20 :
    1-even though I am relatively new to Linux and inexperienced with programming and command line operating I managed to upgrade from 19.3 to 20 from the first shot, following the instructions.
    2-there were some error messages but it seems to work
    3- after installing Mint 20 the wake-up takes longer than 19.3 when I open the lid.
    4-It took a lot of time to complete the upgrade ; on another computer I made a clean install and is took a lot less time to complete ; I think that if I make a clean install on this machine, where I did the upgrade, it will work better.
    5-I would like to create two partitions on my HDD : a small one for Mint and apps (but big enough to be able to install everything I need) and a bigger one to hold my stuff. The problem is that I don’t know how big should be the OS+Apps partition and I have no idea how to remove the actual partitions and create the new ones.

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  459. What I like about mint is that it works! It just works and I can use it like a normal computer. I’m a newb and that is my highest priority.

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  460. Clem,
    Some of those foreign packages cannot be deleted. One in partitcular, called ureadahead, is a vital system file. Would you advise just leaving those files on the system?

    Steve

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  461. Hi
    How is possible to install missing library which was available for Mint 19.xx ?
    I need that to run Autodesk Maya software which always use some old libraries ;(

    /usr/autodesk/maya2020/bin/maya.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Any tries to install that package from terminal is unsuccesfull . Standard openssl is running fine .

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  463. Greetings Clem! Even though you are removing snapd by default in this release of Linux Mint 20, do you have a reason why you and the team do not package the Chromium-Browser into a .deb file instead of having a “dummy package” in the software manager?

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  464. So, I was able to work through all the snags using the comments here and successfully completed the upgrade. This installation was originally Mint 17 and upgraded to 18 and 19 as they came out. I did the downgrade and removal of all foreign packages prior to the upgrade per the instructions. Now when I go into Remove Foreign Packages there are a large number of packages listed (several pages in the scroll window). Are these packages that were in the 19 repositories but are now not in the 20 repositories? Or instead, in spite of my notes to the contrary, did I forget to delete all foreign packages before doing the upgrade. I recognize a few of the packages, but most aren’t familiar to me. I would like to delete all of them if that won’t affect the base system. I can deal with any applications that are gone or don’t work correctly. Would it be safe to delete them all? Is there a way to get a list of these outside the GUI (using APT or some such command line method)?

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  465. Hi,

    I tried to upgrade from 19.3, but the usual process does not start. After clicking on the big green button, a message telling that the system is being checked is shown for a couple of seconds, and then the previous wizard page (i.e. the one with the green button) is re-displayed. Nothing seems to have happened.

    BTW, I think I’ll wait a bit, considering the bad experiences related by a couple of users here. 19.3 is running fine and apart curiosity, nothing forces me to upgrade for the moment. I’ve had a very pleasant journey with Mint for years now (both at home and at work) and want to stay with this good feeling 😉

    Best regards

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  466. Hi, I haven’t had any problems with “mintupgrade upgrade” and with “downgrading foreign packages” (I followed the instructions. After “Applying the upgrades” comes “Downgrade foreign packages”). But when I try to remove foreign packages I’ll get the warning:
    “Das Entfernen eines grundlegenden Systempakets ist gescheitert

    Sie versuchen ein Paket zu entfernen, das einen grundlegenden Teil Ihres Systems darstellt.”
    What do you recommend me to do?

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  467. First of all thanks for your great work!
    I have a (hopefully) small problem: since the update to mint 20 the system doesn’t recognize my MP3 player. It is charging the battery but it is not shown in the “discs” app. I use cinnamon. Do you have an idea what could be the problem? Thanks

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  468. I had put this off without knowing why. But six plus hours later, I remembered. The same thing happened the last time with a different computer. It took forever to accomplish. This computer has 8GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive and high speed WiFi. Not sure why it would take all day to upgrade an almost new, fresh install from February. It’s still not finished and has 596 updates after this. When version 21 comes out I’ll pass.

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    1. No. There’s no version listed.

      Click on the any of the source package links to see.

  470. I’m on Linux Mint 19.3 and I just got offered, and I installed, Kernel 5.4.0.42 and never was offered any of the earlier 5.4 versions that where listed in the Mint Update Manager as available but never installed. So even Mint 19.3 is eligible to get Linux Kernel’s Above the 5.3 Kernel versions?

    I had originally thought that one had to have Mint 20 to get offered any Linux Kernel above Kernel 5.3 so what’s the deal with supported Linux Mint Versions(19.3 in my case) and the Kernel update cutoff point.

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  473. Tried the upgrade from 19.3 to 20 after creating a snapshot using Timeshift, based on https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-20.html.

    During installation, saw errors relate to Python version (maybe due to a higher version 3.x already existing, not sure). Installation seems to have errors.

    Tried to reboot. Not seeing the boot options I’d expect to see.

    Goes to initramfs shell. Seeing messages like “Volume group mint-vg not found”, “ALERT! /dev/mapper/mint–vg-root does not exist. Dropping to a shell”

    Please help. Thanks.

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  474. Hi,
    I stuck with the problem, that the new Kernel does only start in Recovery mode. In normal mode the screen just stays black and nothing happens. The only thing I could say is, that after starting it in Recovery mode, it always tells me, that the graphic accellaration is disabled and I should check the drivers. If I do so, it tells me, I need no drivers for my graphic card. I am stuck. Any suggestions.

    Ah, if I choose the 5.0 kernel all goes well.

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  475. I have this error message after i run mintupgrade check:
    !! ERROR: The following packages are required for a smooth install, please install them:
    default-jre

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  476. I have this error message after i run mintupgrade check:
    !! ERROR: The following packages are required for a smooth install, please install them:
    default-jre
    i dont know what to do afterwards…

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  477. I tried both upgrade : fresh install of Linux Mint 20. I had to go back to Linux Mint 19.3. Linux Mint 20 is buggy gives me intram errors at booting time , I have trouble installing running some programs , they run slower way than Mint 19.3 and on the top of that it freeze without reason. I personally recommend https://expertwatchman.com/ to try the Linux Mint 20 using the live version mode and only if you are satisfied then upgrade. I personally going to wait until all that these issues are fixed to upgrade.

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  478. I have 2 instances of linux mint installed in my computer.

    Few days ago, I have upgraded one instance of linux min from 19.3 to 20.
    I lost all my repos and PPAs.
    I had disabled all my repos and PPAs before upgrading.. I hadn’t removed the PPAs. I have just disabled it.

    How to restore the 3rd party repositories and PPAs?

    There is a github issues in mintuprade section about PPAs being black. Please look at the issue.
    https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupgrade/issues/34

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  479. All my PPAs and 3rd party repositories are gone after upgrade. I have just disabled aka unchecked all the PPAs and 3rd part repos before upgrade from 19.3 to 20. How to restore or bring back those PPAs or 3rd party repos? It is showing complete blank.

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  480. Hello Clem,
    First of all, I want to thank you for this wonderful Mint Release. I was worried about the upgrade process form 19.3 cinnamon to 20 cinnamon. Last night, I did it and all went well, except I have have a very simple but irritating problem which is “gnome-terminal is missing from the menu”( I can open it by the shortcut). Can you please tell me what can I do to solve this. Thanks

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  481. Hi!

    Fairly new to Linux, and can*t figure it out, sorry. Don*t know what to do:
    ”
    + Checking your APT repositories…

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: The following 3rd party repositories were detected. Disable them and refresh your APT cache.

    – . stable (. stable) – repo.skype.com
    – Google (Google LLC) – dl.google.com

    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    + Restoring your backed up APT sources… ”

    Thanks

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    1. Hi,
      I had similar issues and here’s what I did.
      You can click start menu–>Software Sources
      Select “Additional Repositories”
      Uncheck all the offending repositories: (in your case: anything related to Skype and Google). No need to delete, uncheck should be fine.
      Then click OK to apply the changes.
      Close the Software Sources
      Open your terminal
      Rerun the command

      It worked. I hope it also worked out for you too.

  482. I’m experiencing a similar issue to Steven Walker above. Upgrade completes fine, rebooted into LM20 Mate.

    Go to do the final Remove Foreign Packages step, select all and click Remove. Error window pops up “(as superuser)” in title bar stating under Details: “Package ureadahead cannot be removed”.

    So go through the process again, this time select all then deselect ureadahead and click Remove. Window with “?” white on blue graphic pops up (title bar “foreign_packages.py (as superuser)”) saying:

    “Additional software has to be removed

    Please take a look at the list of changes below.
    -253233152.0B of disk space will be freed.

    <graphic of dark box with 9 white squares>ureadahead=0.100.0-21”

    So can’t complete this step with or without ureadahead selected.

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  483. Had to remove both python-gi and python-gi-cairo before install would work, otherwise would get the held package error a lot of others were getting. Removed both from synaptic package manager.

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  484. Hi, I want upgrade my mint 19.3 to 20 but i’ve questions :
    All data saved will be removed after the upgrade ?
    and i’ve a whatsapp web session, will it be disconnected after the upgrade ?
    Thanks for answer !!

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  485. Thank you for your Linux!
    I’m not an expert. User only!

    My question:
    Why can’t I update Linux to version 20 in the “update manager”?
    Why do I have to reinstall Linux and then Wine and all applications?
    How do I know which system utilities I don’t need?
    Sincerely, Zdeněk Řezáč

    You may want to distinguish an expert from a user.
    As a user, should I pay for something?

    What price?

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    1. I also do not have updates in the “update manager”. In my opinion the update should work 100% but it does not work Linux mint has taken care of the colors of icons and other not important things and is going in the wrong direction. I stayed in version 19.3 because I don’t want to play in the console, the system is supposed to work and I require it.

    2. Zdeněk Řezáč,
      This is not an ‘update’ (fixes and minor improvements) but an ‘upgrade’, a whole new system, and much more complicated.
      Technically you don’t need the ones you don’t use but you never know if someday they will be quite useful. If you plan to uninstall them be very careful as this can uninstall other software you do need or want. Unless you are desperate for disk space just leave them there and ignore them.
      Payment is not required but you can donate what you think it is worth and can afford here>> https://www.linuxmint.com/donors.php”

      Adabiel,
      Linux Mint does not cost money but nothing in life is truly free. You have to put in effort learning and doing. Try the IRC help channel (just open ‘HexChat’ from the menu and it will take you there) where a host of knowledgeable volunteers provide assistance, 24/7/365. If all this is too much bother by all means stay with 19.3. You don’t have to upgrade or install anything until June 2023.
      PS I doubt very much discussion of the icons is “taken care of”. You can follow it here.

  486. Third time lucky.

    After following, to the letter, the updated instructions I have now managed to upgrade my main computer from Linux Mint 19.3 to 20.

    I just wanted to to thank those who gave previous feedback, especially about HPLIP. This time I uninstalled HPLIP before even starting, plus I also uninstalled my obsolete version of get-iplayer. Then just kept running Mintupgrade Check, downgrading and removing programs as I went, until the check program was happy and then followed the rest of the upgrade process.

    Clem and team thank you for another, almost pain free, upgrade.

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  487. I’m a novice Linux user. I started to upgrade from I believe is ver 19.0 of Cinnamon Mint.
    When I ran a refresh in the update manager, I receive the following message.
    Please Help. Thank you.
    ======
    Could not download all repository indexes

    The repository may no longer be available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and ensure the repository address in the preferences is correct.

    GPG error: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 78BD65473CB3BD13The repository ‘http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease’ is no longer signed.Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com bionic InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A8580BDC82D3DC6CGPG error: http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 7638D0442B90D010 NO_PUBKEY 04EE7237B7D453EC NO_PUBKEY EF0F382A1A7B6500The repository ‘http://httpredir.debian.org/debian stretch Release’ is not signed.

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  488. I get different errors each time I try to retrograde foreign packages because they are missing. What could I do?

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  489. i ran this process verbatim on my Mint 19.3 Mate primary workstation and the “Downgrade Foreign Packages” hung after a bit showing just a “#” prompt character (after sitting for 45 minutes and two beers). Closed the window and tried “Remove Foreign Pakages” which failed with a “broken something or other” warning. REstored from the Timeshift backup to get it back to normal.

    Against my better judgement, but still having the bulk of a 12-pack left, I ran the process again with identical results–just as uncle Albert told me would happen.

    It was then I realised that the “foreign packages” it insisted on removing compromised 90% of the software I use daily–FreeCAD being the most unacceptable of the bunch,

    At this point I convinced my self that 19.3 wasn’t broke and I gave up trying to fix it.

    I have another machine in my workshop onto which I simply installed Mint 20 (mate if it matters), and then restored plain ol’ ‘Backup Tool” Personal data and Software selection backups from it’s 19.3 installation. Had some cleaning up to do, however I am 98% of the way to having it up and running with 20 with a lot less B.S. than this “upgrade” process seems to entail…

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  490. I updated my Linux Mint 19.3 to 20, everything went smooth, no problems, but I noticed that I haven’t had any single update from Update Manager since I updated it (which was 7 days ago).

    It is a little bit weird to me, is this normal ? I am still getting updates from Update Manager on my other laptop running LM 19.3.

    Thanks for the feedback.

    Nicola

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  491. DO NOT UPGRADE to Mint 20. After the upgrade completes, nVidia drivers (GTX 1060) are all broken, and on boot you will be greeted with a bunch of errors that obviously make the boot time longer. What’s worse, is that Timeshift only partially restores your system to 19.3. The boot errors AND gpu driver incompatibility then both persist in 19.3 even after restoring snapshot. The easiest way of getting Ulyana would be to install it from an .iso on your flash drive. I just can’t believe such an important issue like graphics had been overlooked.

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  492. When I ran Update Manager/Refresh,
    I got:
    Could not download all repository indexes

    I searched the existing messages and did not find the word “indexes” (2020-07-24).

    Here’s the rest of the message. Is it safe to proceed with upgrade to LMC 2.0 ?

    GPG error: http://archive.canonical.com precise Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 40976EAF437D05B5The repository ‘http://archive.canonical.com precise Release’ is not signed.Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.Repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu bionic InRelease’ changed its ‘Label’ value from ‘gimp’ to ‘gimp stable’This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on/ubuntu bionic InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY E0F30C2B9DA85604The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on/ubuntu bionic InRelease’ is not signed.

    Thank you.

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  493. Hi, I’m Having trouble getting LM20 running (and pretty much every single distro based on Ubuntu 20.04)
    The thing is, it will only work under safe mode, otherwise I’ll get a black screen. once in the desktop i can see a message that reads: “Your system is currently running without video hardware acceleration” so i started to think that it was a graphics driver issue; further internet research confirmed my suspicions.

    I tried updating the driver, however i can’t seem to find one that is appropriate for my system

    Specs:
    CPU: Ryzen 5 3500U
    GPU: Vega 8 Mobile
    RAM: 12GB DDR4 @ 2400MHz
    HDD: 1TB 5200RPM
    SSD: 240GB Kingston NVME

    I further confirmed my suspicions by replacing the “quiet splash” parameter with nomodeset in the following line of grub.

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash”

    I hope that you guys can help me. I tried asking in the ubuntu’s official stack page BUT they were kinda rude and didn’t help at all, they instead focused on how I was using linux mint instead of ubuntu EVENTHOUGH I specifically said that it was a problem present on every “official” flavor of ubuntu

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  494. “Mouse arrow jump every click somewhere else”
    It was done, it was a stupid feature in kmag (magnifer)!

    Another question, they added scrollbars in kmag, these are very annoying, can i switch these scrollbars off again? I once saw another linux that can remove the title bar from whole window frames, does that work under linux mint? Under microsoft windows the magnify tool can display without any frame and title bar too.

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  495. You left out *why* to upgrade. It sounds like a big scary thing that could go wrong. What do I gain?

    (I did spend a minute or two looking around for this, but I’m aware it might only be lightly buried…)

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  496. A week ago I used the auto update to go from 19.3 to 20 on my primary PC. I backed up my contents from my Work folder (31 GB) on a remote HDD and all from my home folders just in case. It was not needed as the auto update went without a problem. All is running great! I first started using Mint on v17.1. It was my first OS after dumping Win XP. Thank you all for the time and effort you put into making Mint the OS it is today.

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  497. Currently running LM 19 Cinnamon, AMD64, Gigabyte Nvidia GT710 video card. Works fine.

    I burned LM 20 Cinnamon to a DVD to try out before installation. I booted from the DVD trying, normal, compatibility, and finally OEM install options. None of them worked — I had no video. Computer was not frozen IMHO because taking my cursor to the lower left corner of the screen where I thought the menu button was and clicking caused some action in the computer. Exactly what I could not see since the screen was totally black.

    I thought this was because LM did not correctly identify my video card or install the correct driver for it.

    I then downloaded the Ubuntu 20.04 ISO, burned it to a DVD, booted from it, and everything worked perfectly. It recognized the card, used the Nouveau driver, and even suggested upgrading to a proprietary Nvidia driver.

    Based on that, I installed Ubuntu to a spare drive and, as part of the installation process, told it to install third-party drivers as necessary. The installation worked perfectly and the desktop was using Nvidia drivers when it completed.

    Since Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu, I am mystified as to why the video works perfectly in Ubuntu [and Mint 19] but will not work in Mint 20. Obviously there is a significant deficiency in Mint 20 that is not present in Ubuntu with regard to the video.

    I prefer Mint to Ubuntu and was going to try to transplant necessary files from the Ubuntu ISO to the Mint ISO, fiddle with the startup process so Mint would allow my video to work but was rather daunted by the task.

    In the forums it was suggested to me that perhaps the incremental update to Mint that is targeted to come out in early August might cure my problem. I hope so!

    Any and all suggestions would be most welcome since I would prefer to stay with Mint.

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  498. So, I was able to work through all the snags using the comments here and successfully completed the upgrade. This installation was originally Mint 17 and upgraded to 18 and 19 as they came out. I did the downgrade and removal of all foreign packages prior to the upgrade per the instructions. Now when I go into Remove Foreign Packages there are a large number of packages listed (several pages in the scroll window). Are these packages that were in the 19 repositories but are now not in the 20 repositories? Or instead in spite of my notes to the contray did I forget to delete all foreign packages before doing the upgrade. I recognise a few of the packages, but most aren’t familiar to me. I would like to delete all of them if that won’t affect the base system. I can deal with any applications that are gone or don’t work correctly. Is there a way to extract the list of foreign package to a text file?

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  500. Ashish you have to change the Desktop font in font selection (it will probably assigned as ‘none’)

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  501. I’ve tried upgrading to Linux Mint 20 three times but on each attempt I run into the following error after running mintupgrade upgrade:

    Setting up gnome-session-bin (3.36.0-2ubuntu1) …
    Setting up mutter (3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) …
    Setting up gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0:amd64 (3.36.3.1-0ubuntu1) …
    Setting up gnome-shell (3.36.3-1ubuntu1~20.04.2) …
    Setting up gnome-session (3.36.0-2ubuntu1) …
    Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.2) …
    update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic
    Warning: No support for locale: en_CA.utf8
    Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) …

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo apt-get install -fyq’…
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    + Error detected on try #2……

    + Retrying……

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo dpkg –configure -a’…

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo apt-get install -fyq’…
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    + Error detected on try #3……

    + Retrying……

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo dpkg –configure -a’…

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo apt-get install -fyq’…
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    + Error detected on try #4……

    + Retrying……

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo dpkg –configure -a’…

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo apt-get install -fyq’…
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    + Error detected on try #5……

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo dpkg –configure -a’…

    + Running fallback command ‘sudo apt-get install -fyq’…
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    + An issue was detected during the upgrade, running dist-upgrade in manual mode….
    apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.5.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to dist-upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    Has anyone else run into this error? I followed the instructions to the letter except Software Sources would not let me remove several foreign packages claiming they were critical.

    Thanks in advance!

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  502. Upgrade did not work on Akoya S4219 Laptop, boots but Cinnamon crashes. Now performing fresh install from live usb, live system crashes often and hangs but 3rd time it seems to install now.
    I guess Atom CPU Platform is still a problem…

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  503. I have used Mint Cinnamon since version 17. I like to try out different distributions. I’ve tried distributions based on arch, debian, ubuntu,… Now I was using kde neon. I’ve never had any problems with any version of Mint. I always access to linux mint web to be aware of the news and I have seen the complaints about version 20. I have proceeded to a new installation of Mint Cinnamon 20 and it has worked perfectly, no error messages, printers, scanners, wifi,… everything perfect. I think that all those who complain as if they had invested in the project should learn a little more about how the rest of the distributions work. I don’t think there is another distribution that allows you to access a productive process immediately like Mint. It would be difficult to find another distribution that is more careful. My congratulations and thanks to the entire Mint team.

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    1. Have you done the following:

      1. Remove and re-install Epson driver
      2. Update Epson driver

  505. Thank you very much to the Mint team for their time and effort spent in developing Mint 20. I successfully upgraded from Mint 19.3 Cinnamon running on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M81 5049A72 with an Intel Core i3-2100 processor. The process was lengthy but I am sure that it was faster than doing a fresh install and having to reinstall the applications that I need. Everything appears to be working perfectly so far.

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  506. Tried to upgrade, but ran out of disk space in the middle. Luckily, I was able to resize partitions to get going again. However, in the middle of the restart when it asked if I wanted to continue.. I got an error message stack in the background. I hit ‘Y’ and continued, so I don’t know what this error was about…

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade-inhibit-power”, line 8, in [module]
    bus = Gio.bus_get_sync(Gio.BusType.SESSION)
    GLib.Error: g-io-error-quark: The connection is closed (18)
    Error in sys.excepthook:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py”, line 154, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL, 0o640), ‘wb’) as f:
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/var/crash/_usr_bin_mintupgrade-inhibit-power.1000.crash’

    Original exception was:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/mintupgrade-inhibit-power”, line 8, in [module]
    bus = Gio.bus_get_sync(Gio.BusType.SESSION)
    GLib.Error: g-io-error-quark: The connection is closed (18)

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  507. Sorry for posting this here, but I am such a noob with Linux/Mint, that I don’t really know what else to do with the information. Please ignore, if appropriate.

    Having Mint 20 on a 2500K + GTX 680 system to try it out, installing all the latest updates caused me to lose video acceleration, access to NVIDIA X Server Settings, and the ability to revert from the nVidia 440.100 driver to nouveau.

    Timeshift got everything working again, and testing revealed that as long as I don’t install the latest libseccomp update, things remain working. The somewhat random collection of installed software consists of VLC player, GIMP (flatpak), Meld and Steam.

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    1. Indeed, after a fresh re-install (or three), it is apparent that only the Nouveau driver is compatible with the full set of current system updates.

      Installing either the previously recommended (and properly working) nvidia-driver-440 or the currently recommended nvidia-driver-440-server leads to a dead-end situation with no HW acceleration and no obvious way to bactrack apart from Timeshift (as the Driver Manager also becomes useless).

    2. Ubuntu seems to have released a new ubuntu-drivers-common update, reverting the recommendation from nvidia-driver-440-server back to nvidia-driver-440, which seems reasonable on a client system. But otherwise the situation is unchanged.

    3. Even if I have absolutely no idea about how Linux development happens, I did some googling around the libseccomp and nvidia driver packages for Ubuntu Focal Fossa. The impression I got was that there are no open issues for libseccomp, but there are a multitude for the drivers, the relevance of which I am unable to judge, although they at least superficially did not seem too relevant, as the one with the highest priority involved screen tearing.

      So, as I hardly have the knowledge or credentials to try to change this, I expect there to be a long wait, and I will probably just have another look if anything has changed in some months or perhaps by the time Mint 20.1 is out. Oh well, It was a try out, and I normally stick to Mint X.3 releases, anyway.

  508. I have upgraded Mint 19.3 to 20 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X240 with full disk encryption. The process went pretty smoothly. I’m impressed.

    Just a couple of observations:

    * When downgrading/removing foreign packages in preparation for the upgrade, the console window “Foreign packages” just stayed open on a # prompt and it was not obvious to me how to proceed. I tried ctrl/D which did nothing, before finally just closing the window which turned out the right thing to do.

    * “mintupgrade check” wanted to disable my encrypted swap partition which was already disabled because I had created a swap file in order to activate hibernation. When I allowed it, it created and activated an unnecessary (unencrypted) swap partition in addition to the swap file which was still there and active.

    * The upgrade process complained about a modified /etc/ssh/sshd_config which it wasn’t able to merge automatically. My changes were simply to have set “PermitRootLogin no” and “PasswordAuthentication no”. The 3-way merge algorithm was unable to cope with that which I found slightly disappointing.

    * Some disconcerting messages during the upgrade, notably “[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeInitializationException” (from libglib2.0-cil) and “grub-probe: Error: No GRUB drive found for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.” (several times) had me hold my breath but did not seem to have any serious consequences.

    * The machine connects to a NAS via CIFS autofs. This continues to work without a hitch after the upgrade which is nice. However, every mounted CIFS appears now twice on my desktop, once with a green “remote folder” icon and a second time with a bright orange “removable media” icon. The “remote folder” icon goes away when the CIFS mount times out but the “removable media” one remains. Not a big deal to be sure, but I’d still like to get rid of it again.

    But those are really cosmetic points. All in all I am very happy with the experience. Thanks a lot for the good work!

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  509. Tried an upgrade from Cinnamon 19.3 to 20 and passed the check successfully. Afterwards I downloaded all packages and started the upgrade. Unfortunately root FS ran out of space and I was left with an unstable system and could not get it back to 19.3 using timeshift as something was wrong with grub. After a few hours of trying I gave up and am now reinstalling freshly. Please Mint gentlemen check for more root buffer space before approving the check was successful.

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  510. I read the instructions and followed them carefully.
    All my files are gone. I have a backup, but this is going to be a real pain.
    I restored from my timeshift snapshot–now I have a bare Mint 19.3.
    Just what I wanted to do, restore all my files from backup.

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  511. Upgraded last night from 19.3 to 20 and all went well. I followed the instructions carefully, put in the time, and kept an eye on all the prompts. LM20 seems snappy and fresh on my Mac-mini (mid-2010). Had some difficulty setting up a Timeshift snapshot, but that was something I needed to sort out with one of my external hard drives. I removed one app, Lollypop, because the check upgrade flagged it repeatedly as a foreign repository.

    After grappling with this computer being EFI rather than GRUB, have had nary an issue. First install was LM19.2. Using as a dual-boot with MacOS until I have everything migrated to LM. Thanks to all on the LM team for the consistently great work!

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  512. THe upgrade process broke the system. First Cinnamon crashed, then there were dozens of unmet dependencies all revolving around python3. Then, many of the system windows (Control Center, Preferences, Update Manager, etc) would not open. Finally, the “apt” program does not work; error messages indicate it is missing the module “apt_pkg”.
    I have all the error messages saved.
    I love 19.3, and would be happy to ignore 20 and keep using 19.3. BUT, if there is a fix, I am willing to try again.

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  513. I followed this procedure last night – the system runs but I cannot open archives.
    file-roller reports:
    “file-roller: symbol lookup error: file-roller: undefined symbol: archive_write_add_filter_zstd”

    How can I fix this?

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    1. Right, I’ve resolved the issue – for some reason, an old copy of libarchive.so had been installed in /usr/local/lib alongside Python libraries. Deleting that allows file-roller to run.

  514. If anyone has an upgraded version of Mono, which I required for my VPN client, you may run into difficulties. I wound up using the purge command to get rid of it rather than trying to use the trial and error method in maintenance of trying to select the listed files found by “downgrade foreign packages”. I also recommend that you make a printed copy of all the PPAs so that you have a list of what’s been removed. Backup any important files (pics, docs, etc) in /home. Don’t trust a snapshot to important items.

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  515. After several backups with the time-shift (yes, this procedure f*ed up big-time) I was able to learn which foreign dependencies not to remove (mainly the ones that have GCC in the name). Then, I got the

    !! ERROR: Performing the upgrade would remove the following important packages:

    After restarting and trying again, I have realized that I did not type the full confirmation message in the quotes but simply wrote ‘Yes’. It is now updating as I type…

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  516. Everything was going well until in the configuration this happened:

    dpkg: error processing package python3 (–configure):
    installed python3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 4
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    python3
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    ———————————————————————————————————–
    What shoud I do now?
    I had to remove some lines of error because of denial of HTML Code

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    1. Seems like it is not working anymore indeed.
      I’m using “Shortwave” now, but not as convenient.

  518. Tried to upgrade from 19.3.
    – First time I had no internet while trying to resolve archive.ubuntu.com and the upgrade process aborted and I had to disable and enable my network adapter. Running again the upgrade complained that my repos are for mint 20.
    – Did a reboot and I was on Mint 20 but I found out that after 2-3 minutes I had no internet and I had to stop and start the network adapter once more. This continued for about 1 hour and decided to restore to 19.3

    Not sure if my network card is the problem here (had no issues till now) but this upgrade process made Timeshift the hero.

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    1. I experienced the same issue with network connectivity during the upgrade. I also Timeshifted back. It seems the upgrade is not ready for primetime.

  519. The update manager is not able to find updates when clicking on refresh. In order to trigger an update, I have first to go to Software sources, then reset the default settings (this will ask me to update the APT cache), then go back to update manager and click again refresh. Then it will find updates.

    I wrote before about update manager not being able to find new updates since 2 weeks, but apparently my message was not published.

    Very annoying…..

    Nicola

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    1. I mentioned this before, the issue is that the mirrors (some, most, all ?) are broken.

  520. I did the upgrade and my house burned down. I’ll wait for when the first few rounds of patches are available.

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  521. Upgraded 2 computers from LM 19.3 to 20.0. Printer/scanner hp2637 doesn’t work any longer. It looks that there are problems with hplib: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1879206. As a consequence hp-gui isn’t working properly either. I could get the printer/scanner working again by sudo apt purge ippusbxd
    Initially LibreOffice showed an ugly interface. I had to remove LO and reinstall it again. Asunder CD Ripper doesn’t work properly any longer. You have to install the Flat-pack-version instead.
    Lessons learned : wait a few months before upgrading

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    1. I had the same problem with my HP Office jet pro 8725 . I could live with the snapp and chromium downloads but the printer was a deal breaker . Went back to 19.3 Like you, I will wait till they put it through the upgrade manager.

  522. The upgrade went smoothly and even kept all my settings! The only casualty is Puddletag which used a now-unsupported Python version. Easytag stepped in to get the job done.

    I haven’t noticed much difference except that Boot and Nemo are faster. I think the sound quality has also improved but that could just be me.

    The devteam did a fantastic job here given the obstacles that are always present during a major upgrade.

    Many thanks from this baby penguin!

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  523. while upgrading the installation stopped because i didn’t have enough disk space. After trying to restart, which didn’t work, I freed up space then decided to reboot and restart from my system snapshot but when I rebooted it seems to have upgraded, should I restart from the snapshot and upgrade again ?

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  524. recommendation before updating remove all programs that are not pre-installed -delete external sources and degrade the remaining ones, then update your own experience without problems, remember to use apt autoremove once to remove the remaining data from the programs before updating greetings gggggggggggggg

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  525. Hi !
    I have been working with linux Mint for many years and I love it! However I have had a problem with my Bose Soundlink Mini 2 Bluetooth speaker from the beginning; in fact I have a problem to detect it and since this last version the problem is major, sometimes we detect nothing!
    Do you know a solution?

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  528. What have you done to the sound driver? 19.3 was fine, but in 20 there is a cracking noise before and after I play a sound file or video file with sound. In lmms there is even a crack before each sample… 🙁

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  529. I’ve upgrade from 19.3 to 20. When I select “remove foreign packages” (Software Sources) select all and try to remove them I get a “Failed to remove essential system package” pointing to ureadahead is an essential component of the system that cannot be deleted. When I UNCHECK ureadahead and try to remove the others I get a messages saying that “Additional software has to removed” again indicating the ureadahead is the problem (specifically “ureadahead=0.100.0-21”).

    Open to suggestions.

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  530. I began having Power related issues after upgrading and installing updates from mint 19.2 to 19.3. I now have a fresh install of Linux Mint 20. Still having boot issues after updates. The battery will only charge when computer is shut down or in standby. Does not charge while using, says using battery power. Then had issues booting as shown on the first screenshot at https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=314797. Sometimes my computer will boot after a few tries. I tried a new power cord and a different battery that also only charges while in low power mode. I found this info about the power regulation code which makes me think it is SW related rather than HW related – https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/acpi-error-what-means-4175605357/#post5707423

    Hoping for a solution

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  531. mintupgrade check

    version 8312k18-a, LeTourneau-Coltraine modified

    + Checking your Linux Mint codename…

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Your version of Linux Mint is ‘Tricia’. Only Linux Mint 18.3 ‘Sylvia’ can be upgraded to Linux Mint 19 ‘Tara’.
    !! Exiting.
    It seems like mintupgrade is not pointing to the new repo. I did all of the obvious updates. This is probably simple but I would like to avoid rebuilding my system with Mint 20. Thanks in advance.

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    1. You cannot upgrade to 20 except from 19.3, so you are on the right track if you don’t want to do a full rebuild.

      Caveat: Any upgrade seems to require some rebuilding anyway, given removal and downgrading of software.

  532. Have the same problem as Richard Cook. Have to repeat “remove foreign packages” again and again and again. Uncheked insserv, initscripts, libcryptsetup4, libprocps4 and mountall, but no luck.
    Gave up upgrade for today…

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  533. Timeshift says “Not enough disk space available < 9,0 TB". I have 1,3TB free. My hard drives aren't even that big. How can the backup be?

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  534. After system upgrade my laptop doesn’t boot on battery, after mint logo it freeze on a black screen.
    Can you please help me ?

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  535. I tried the .iso on a pendrive and everything works perfectly on my Dell Latitude E7270 laptop. To upgrade directly from version 19.3. I think I will wait longer.

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  536. Hello,
    I am stuck during the installation by the results of mintugrade check. The versions of several packages are too high. I have downgraded some of them without difficulty. I hesitate to downgrade the two last why Packages Manager ask me to delete Cinnamon and network manager. I am afraid to not have cinnamon GUI ! I am not smart with the terminal.

    Result of mintupgrade check :

    + Checking your APT packages…

    – libnm0: 1.10.14-0ubuntu2, should be 1.10.6-2ubuntu1.4 (from bionic-updates)
    – network-manager: 1.10.14-0ubuntu2, should be 1.10.6-2ubuntu1.4 (from bionic-updates)

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: The packages above have incorrect versions. They can be downgraded using ‘Software Sources -> Maintenance -> Downgrade Foreign Packages’.
    !! Exiting.

    Note that the instruction to downgrade is wrong : the packages are not foreign and cannot be deleted by the Software Sources tool.

    What I have to do ?

    Thank in advance.

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  537. esta dando erro nesse pacote shim-signed e pede pra fazer esse procedimento abaixo descrito:
    E: O dpkg foi interrompido, para corrigir o problema tem de correr manualmente ‘sudo dpkg –configure -a’
    E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
    alguem poderia me ajudar? se não resolver isso não comsigo atualizar para a versão 20

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  538. I’m seeing exactly the same problem Richard Cook described on August 1, with ureadahead in the “remove foreign packages” in the very last step. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

    Some online searching turned up this thread , on a different problem, which suggested ureadahead could be purged. https://askubuntu.com/questions/749224/92-of-syslog-is-filled-with-message-regarding-ureadahead-ignoring-relative-pa I am not confident enough to try that!

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  539. Calculando atualização… Erro!
    Alguns pacotes não puderam ser instalados. Isto pode significar que
    você solicitou uma situação impossível ou, se você está usando a
    distribuição instável, que alguns pacotes requeridos não foram
    criados ainda ou foram retirados da “Incoming”.
    A informação a seguir pode ajudar a resolver a situação:

    Os pacotes a seguir têm dependências desencontradas:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Quebra: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) mas 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 está para ser instalado
    E: Erro, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve gerou falhas, isto pode ser causado por pacotes mantidos (hold).

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    + Restoring your backed up APT sources…

    I can't fix it i need help!

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  541. I have done it in a different way than instructed here. And I think it’s easier. I have secured all my user files by moving them to a different partition. I have made backup copy of all the bookmarks from my web browser. Then having already made a live usb stick with the new Linux Mint, I simply restated the computer to begin the new installation. At the stage of preparing the partitions, I have used the ‘use the other option’ or something similar and manually I selected to which partition I want this new system to be installed, of course together with the swap partition. So I have selected the same partition where I had Linux Mint 19.3 but selected NOT to format the partition. In result, the new system Mint 20 has been overwritten in the same place where the previous one had been. Many programs which I had previously, still work with the new system without the new system, but some I had gone and I had to reinstall them. Anyway, all this process took less time and less risk of losing any important files, than this upgrade. This is my opinion and my way. I’m not an expert and you may disagree. Regards

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  542. I’m on 18.1 and it’s fine. I’ll wait for a 20 point release or even until 18.1 reaches end of life, before upgrading. Thanks, Mint crew.

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  543. Reinstalling Mint on one laptop and upgrading it on another went smoothly — except for one thing. I haven’t found anything on the problem in the comments so I may be the only person encountering it. I regularly backup my files by copying the entire home folder to a hard disk (which was never a problem). Since switching to Ulyana this process is permanently interrupted by error messages according to which certain filenames are invalid and therefore cannot be copied. I seems to concern directory and folder names that “contain:a colon” “a vertical | line”, “end with “a hyphem -” or “end with a space “. This mostly concerns very old files that already went from Windows to Mac to Windows to Linux and never created this problem.

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  544. The fact is that no one can answer my question, I asked my question in other forums and no one answers, I have been suffering for two days and can not solve the problem. So please I beg you to help me personally, no one else helps me, because people don’t know the answer to my question, and I’m tired of constantly re-installing the system, I can’t do anything, so please personally, as DEVELOPERS, help me solve the problem, you created this operating system, you will best help me. Here is my question: After I install Drivers from Nvidia, on Linux mint 20 Ulyana, then there is this message: Your system is currently running without hardware video acceleration. Possibly low system performance and high CPU load.”Also, I have a screen of 1920 x 1080 60 Hz, and after updating the drivers becomes 1024×768 like a laptop and there are no more options to choose from. I have an Nvidia Geforce 760 video card.

    I installed the latest drivers and old ones, and through the console and through the Driver Manager, everything is exactly the same-what to do?)

    I BEG YOU WITH ALL MY HEART, PLEASE HELP ME INSTALL THE CORRECT DRIVERS ON LINUX MINT, PLEASE, I TRIED EVERYTHING, IT’S ALL FROM YOUR DRIVERS. AFTER INSTALLING the DRIVERS ON the 760 video CARD, the Screen resolution is 1024×768 and there are no others. I’VE TRIED A LOT OF THINGS. The ONLY HOPE IS that YOU will FIX the DRIVERS for video CARDS 760 version GTX, and HELP me INSTALL the DRIVERS on LINUX MINT with a RESOLUTION of 1920×1080. POMOGITE

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  545. Hi all. I upgraded about a month ago and all seemed fine till today when I tried to do a scan in my Canon TS6160. Now all I get is an error message “scanner busy”. To get it to work on 19.3, I installed the Canon driver and installed this PPA.
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rolfbensch/sane-git/ubuntu focal main
    This same procedure hasn’t worked in LM 20 Cinnamon 64 (upgrade). Any ideas where to find a fix???

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  546. Hi all, this is my error, what now?
    !! ERROR: The following packages are required for a smooth install, please install them:

    os-prober

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  547. I am disappointed – I switched to Linux from Windows when one of their updates cost me a lot of data and when they started dictating the updates. Now, asking me to uninstall and reinstall all my third party repositories and applications looks more of a Windows approach rather than a Linux one. I hope there will be a long term support for 19.3. On top of that after several updates once I restarted my laptop top (as requested by the NVIDIA driver update), it couldn’t boot (kernel signature issue) and all the “solutions” I could find online did not work. Since I had to urgently resolve an issue at work, I had to install LM 19.3 a new, wiping out all my data (again the windows approach). I hope my last back up at home has majority of my data.

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  549. Tried it 5 times. Nothing worked. Always Python 3.8 isn’t configured correctly. Many dependencies need Python <3.7 and always get message :", but Python 3.8 should be used" Of course I've disabled all 3rd party stuff, all downgrades done, etc… Doesn't work!!! Timeshift saved my life. Thought it would be easier with Mint all that upgrade stuff …….

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    1. Just wondering why there are so many complains about LM20. I’m hesitant now to upgrade. How’s it going on your end?

  551. After 7 hours for install all going down ( becouse i left for the last 5 minutes with out power, only with batery 🙁 )
    Now , as miracle , starts with no problem , but they told me to downgrade some packets, exept they dont let me to do that. 🙁 I’m very disapoint with that installation and the team, why dont do some Automatic system or service for every installation on new version? and every time we cross fingers and we do a Big cross for help us an we hope to finish with no problem? And last, I send a day before another message here, for one message with error about instalation and , somone delete that , ok, only for thanks any more here? 🙁

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  552. LM 20 is the first edition that is very hard to do something with it. Sub process wrapper failed, busy box, freezes etc. I give up also the system installed on an external ssd. Not usable.

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  553. As a long time supporter/promoter/donor……Sorry to say but 20 has been a train-wreck for me. Complete re-install after disastrous update.. Resolved now, but too many issues. Firefox latest (79) also buggy. Ad blocking neutered.
    Ray of sunshine ‘Evolution’ is update. Like to see it as part of the distro.

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  554. I upgraded to LM20 by doing a fresh installation. No big deal if one has kept files backed up. It also had the advantage of wiping my drive and removing any trash and errors I collected over time. There are a couple of app packages that have been removed from LM20 like Rainlendar and my favorite screen shot program. No big deal I installed a different screen shot app and downloaded Rainlendar from their website. I have had ZERO issues with LM20! Loving it!

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  556. I have been a Linux Mint 19.3 user for only a few months. I have been dual booting with Windows 7, but using primarily LM, usingW7 for Adobe CC only. Reading the long list of apparent problems with the upgrade to LM20, I jumped ship. I deleted LM reformated my drive and , lured by their curated app store, installed Elementary os next to W7. It was …fine. The curated apps were adequate but lightweight. It looked pretty but then so does LM when it’s customised…. I lasted a week. I reformatted my drive and reinstalled Linux Mint, this time LM20. It installed absolutely perfectly, no drama at all with Nvidia, Bluetooth etc etc. I feel dirty and guilty, like I’ve had an affair … but it’s nice to be home .. !

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  557. Hi,
    During the upgrade Microsoft eula ttf popped up and froze. It has been like that for 30 minutes. It’s not completely frozen, only the terminal window. Anything to do? Also tried upgrading a month ago and still the same issue.

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    1. Not sure if this is your problem, but did you check the case “Do you accept EULA license terms” ?

  558. in Linux Mint 20 doesn’t work:

    1.Docky (Plank works)
    2.Applets (Pomodoro and etc.)

    for developers:

    1. mysql workbench
    2. pgadmin4

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  559. Linux Mint updater wants to execute things in /tmp.
    Well … that folder is non-executable. Please change things for the better.

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  560. I know this must sound minor compared to the previous concerns but could you tell me if the 20 allows fro Red Shift to work on the computer location rather than the IP address? Many sleepless nights before I realized what was happening.

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  562. I just tried to update after the system report notified me the update was available, but:
    sudo apt install mintupgrade
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    mintupgrade : Depends: acpi but it is not installable
    Depends: crudini but it is not installable
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    Is this expected?

    Cheers,
    Regis

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  563. after trying ulyana alongside tricia i found it slower and slightly buggy. so i decided to go back to tricia alone for now. Mostly however it worked the same. will give it another crack in a few months. I had this problem with mint 18 to 18.2 and mint 17 to 17.1. 17.3 was the pinnacle of all with all bluetooth functionality. after that no mic functionality on bt headsets.

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  564. Hello, I’m trying to upgrade to Linux Mint 20 from 19.3 Tricia.

    When running the command mint upgrade, I get this error:

    E: El repositorio «http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt tricia-pgdg Release» no tiene un fichero de Publicación.
    N: No se puede actualizar de un repositorio como este de forma segura y por tanto está deshabilitado por omisión.

    It is realed with a missing repository to update postgres sql

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  565. Greetings
    Trying to upgrade from 19.3 to 20 i get this problem
    Any suggestions ?
    Cheers

    + Downloading upgrade packages…

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Calculating upgrade… Error!
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    + Restoring your backed up APT sources..

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  566. It seems that reading some of the comments above, that being a novice with a dual boot Windows 10/Linux Mint 19.3 64bit, I might have a bit of a problem upgrading. I also have quite a few programs that seemed complicated to set up, so I don’t really want to uninstall LM 19 and start again on this PC with LM 20 dual boot. I AM planning to get a new PC in a month or two’s time anyway, so it sounds sense that I wait until that new box arrives, with Windows 10 and then create a dual boot at that stage with LM 20. If all else fails, I still have my original PC (and KVM) to fall back on for the time being…

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  567. Chromium, if you don’t like to run by snap… You should remove “chromium-browser” (if it installed) and “chromium-codecs-ffmpeg” in Synaptic, click “Mark for removal”.
    Go to https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/chromium-browser/download & https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/download to download 2 file .deb.
    Install “chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra”, then install “chromium-browser”. Done.
    About “chromium-codes-ffmpeg-extra”, it make all video run succeed.

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  568. ok I posted earlier that I’d lost sound after the upgrade. I tried everything to fix it, then gave up and restored 19.3. Anyway I finally got around to the upgrade again, and this time it’s all okay and sound it working.

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  569. hello,
    i have a problem to install upgraded packages (as firefox 79 for example).
    I have the md5 problem seen up in the blog.
    i try apt clean
    apt upgrade
    it didn’t solve the problem.

    I tried apt-clean
    del the files in /var/lib/apt/lists and retried apt update. I still have the md5 message (in frnech : “somme de controle de hachage incohérente”

    i don’t have any idea…

    Does someone have any idea ?

    Thanks !

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  570. Clem
    Boa tarde.
    Porque tudo com relação a Linux tem de ser tão complicado?
    Porque não podemos somente baixar clicar em um botão e instalar?
    Linux sistema em sua concepção feito para acabar com a desigualdade de acesso a informatica e a rede porem tão complicado que as pessoas preferem pagar o windows do que se aventurar nele.
    Será que algum dia teremos algo que todos possam usar?

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  571. ———–help——–
    Your swap space is encrypted. An issue in Linux Mint 20 ‘Ulyana’ currently
    prevents the use of encrypted swap.

    This swap space will now be disabled.
    Do you want to continue? [y/n]:

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  572. The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed

    what does this mean?

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  573. Bom dia. Estou usando o LM 19.3. Vc acha que já posso atualizar, uma vez que não sei fazer muitas alterações em Linux? Obrigado!

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  574. Has anyone noticed a problem with getting a valid hash for Mint 20 MATE from the torrent service? I have a desktop that had been running MATE 17.x and decided to update it to 20. After burning the .iso to a thumb drive twice, and having both version crash during installation, I decided to try updating to 19.3, then follow the update through it. The 19.3 version installed with no more problems that a freeze when I tried to run all the updates at once (restarted, broke the updates into sections and everything updated fine). Once I was happy that the 19.3 was working and up-to-date, I ran the suggested command line instructions to update to MATE 20. Everything seemed to be working fine, but then the upgrade ate itself.When I ran APT to find out the problem, it said that has had come back as faulty and the the package would not install. So, dead installation. About the only thing I did differently between burning the .iso of 20 and 19.3 was that I used the torrent stream to get 20, but did a download from one of the mirror servers for 19.3. thus my question: has anyone noticed a problem with the hash from the torrent server?

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    1. Yes, i had all the same issues trying to upgrade to Mint 20 Mate and only way to get hold of a good copy was via a torrent could not upgrade. ended up going back to 19.3 and wait until issues are sorted.

  575. Back to Mint on my 12 years old computer, after two years on another, lighter, distro. First time with XFCE version. Glad to have the complete and stable experience again, yet with a lightweight environment. Thanks a lot !

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  576. Hi,
    1) I run Linux Mint 19.3 Mate, French language. In my Softwre sources I have no “downgrade foreign packages” button, just a remove one. I tried it before “mintupgrade check”, and it removed foreign packages uncompletely: “mintupgrade check” detected foreign packages and refused to perform the analysis. Hoxw can I upgrade?
    2) I f I decide to perform a fresh install, how can I keep my “/home” (it is installed in a separate partition)?

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  577. I had to go back to using LM 19.3. Seems the graphic drivers in LM 20 do not accept older Nvidia Cards. To bad that linux is moving in the direction it is, turning older machines into book ends. Ohh well…

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  578. For A novice user the upgrade process is horrible. Multiple runs of mintupgrade check and package version conflicts, PPA foreign stuff?! synaptic forced version craziness!… Clean install!! Took forever to get mintupgrade check to clear and THEN finally upgrade.

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  579. Is it a bad idea to reinstall Mint 20 on top of Mint 19.3 and keep my home partition intact? I’d only format my root partition.

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  580. Upgrade to LM 20 does not work at all. I do not want to miss my 3rd parties software ( bitwig 3)!

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  582. I am new bee on Linux. I have successfully upgraded to LM20, do I need to reinstall all the software previously installed on older versions like Eclipse, Visual Studio Code?
    It does shows .vscode and .eclipse folder under my home folder

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  584. 1) I’m presently with 64-bit Linux Mint 18.3.
    2) Is it possible to upgrade directly to Linux 20 “Ulyana” directly from Linux Mint 18.3???
    3) R.S.V.P..

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    1. You would need to perform the following upgrades:

      – From 18.3 to 19 (that’s a complex upgrade).
      – From 19 to 19.3 (that’s a very fast and easy one).
      – From 19.3 to 20 (complex again).

  585. Hi, there!
    How much free dis space do I need to upgrade?

    Here is my only disk at the moment:
    $ df -lh
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda5 59G 44G 12G 79% /

    Thanks to all

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  586. I have a dual boot H/P Elitebook 8770w (2012, 4th generation, Ivy Bridge). Followed the instructions and the update went flawlessly! This team has done an excellent job, thanks to everyone who was involved.

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  587. After upgrade to Mint 20 (MATE), I encountered a few minor issues involving missing or conflicted packages (digikam, inkscape, lilypond), which I easily fixed in the next few days. But in general, the new system seemed sluggish, and when quitting from Mozilla Firefox, about half the time, either X Window or MATE desktop would go berserk. For example, existing windows would lose their title bars, keyboard would not work in existing windows, including the root window (i.e., desktop), and only the mouse worked. At other times mouse would not work, and pressing the desktop switcher key combination Ctrl-Alt-LeftArrow resulted in “D” appearing in a terminal.

    It’s hard to understand. If it’s a bug in Firefox, how could it affect MATE or X Window so badly? If the bug is in MATE or X Window, why would it be triggered only by quitting from one application, Firefox?

    So, after 35 days of this, I reverted to Mint 19.3.

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  588. Dear Clem,
    I am in the process of upgrading from Mint19.3 to Mint20 during ‘mintupgrade download’
    showed only one error:

    Err:135 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 libgexiv2-2 amd64 0.12.0-2
    408 Request Time-out [IP:91.189.88.142 80]

    Then continued, after downloading the files to:
    Get:2026 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 xbrlapi amd64 6.0+dfsg-4ubuntu6 [63.8 kB]
    Fetched 1,496 MB in 4h 53min 45s (85.9 kB/s)
    E:Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/geiv2/libgexiv2-2_0.12.0-2_amd64.deb 408 Request Time-out [IP:91.189.88.142 80]
    E:some files failed to download
    ………………………….
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for upgrade.
    !! Exiting.
    ………………………………………….
    +Restoring your backed up APT sources…

    [sudo] password for richard:

    Problem:
    I assume all the downloaded files to line ‘Get: 2026’ have been downloaded on to the hard disk apart from Get: 135 shown above.

    Can you please help – what is the next command(s) to type so that this missing file can be downloaded, so I then have completed the Mint 20 download upgrade files, in order to progress to to the next step:
    mintupgrade upgrade?

    Thank you
    Richard

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  589. Good morning, I am not a programmer and I am totally a layman on the subject, I use Linux because it is much better than Windows, I use version Linux Mint 19.3, Cinnamon 4.4.8 and Kernel 5.4.0-47-generic. I would very much like to update to version Linux Mint 20, would you know if the update tutorial is easy to understand for a layman, or I will not be able to update due to lack of knowledge.

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  590. Will we ever be able to upgrade to Linux Mint 20 through the update manager instead of having to do this roundabout way of upgrading? I will no go to Linux mint 20 from my 19.3 because of the lackluster way of upgrading. Please educate and advise

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  591. That was tougher than I imagined. The snapshot saved me. It failed the first time through and then refused to proceed on subsequent attempts.

    I got a message that a huge list of packages were foreign packages. I discovered that the long package list believed to be “foreign packages” was because the 20 upgrade failed and the repo rollback didn’t recognize them.
    I had been given advice to set synaptec’s settings to default, reload the cache and walk through the steps again, though I think this just killed a lot of time. The actual solution was to run upgrade again and manually resolve the package failures.

    I have a suspicion that it matters the order you go for downgrade packages then remove foreign packages. Reversing the order seems to put you in dependency hell, or perhaps that was an artifact of the prior failure. I dunno. anyway i’m going to reboot now wish me luck.
    one glitch I had was mint codecs
    apt install libavcodec-extra libavcodec-extra58
    missing those prevented installing mint-meta-codecs which caused the upgrade to fail

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  593. I had a number of issues doing the upgrade, got through that and after reboot still more issues with modules.

    My Lenovo ThinkPad P52 has an issue where the trackpad isn’t working. I tried the boot options I found in a forum ” i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux ” to no avail.

    Bummed that I had to install cherrytree on flatpack because Snap isn’t supported anymore. Systemd-resolve had an issue, I switched to dnsmasq, and I’m finding whenever I launch chrome it spews client requests to the local resolver in what appears to be spammy multi-threaded fashion. I don’t think that’s new though. I switched to unbound.

    I thought the intel-microcode drivers were loaded for Mint19 but I may be imagining it. The system says those are installed but I thought maybe that is why I can’t get the trackpad to work. I thought it was working earlier, maybe it stopped when I installed the nvidia drivers, also not as easy as I anticipated. You have to use PPA because the stock NVIDIA instruction to stop XSession doesn’t work on Mint 20.

    I’m getting closer. I figured it’d be about like this. If someone can look into the trackpad issue that’d be nice.

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  594. Since the upgrade, my Anyconnect Dynamic Access Policies now do not detect the firewall. I thought, okay so I’ll try to reinstall UFW. The failure leaves me without a firewall.

    apt remove ufw
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    gufw ufw
    Removing gufw (20.04.1-1) …
    Removing ufw (0.36-6) …

    apt install gufw ufw
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
    gufw ufw
    Unpacking ufw (0.36-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) …
    Unpacking gufw (18.04.0-0ubuntu1) …
    apt remove ufw
    Removing gufw (18.04.0-0ubuntu1) …
    Removing ufw (0.36-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) …

    root@phydroxide:~# apt remove ufw iptables
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libip6tc2 libnftnl11
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    iptables sshuttle
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
    root@phydroxide:~# apt remove ufw iptables sshuttle

    Removing sshuttle (0.78.5-1) …
    Removing iptables (1.8.4-3ubuntu2) ..
    update-alternatives: using /usr/sbin/iptables-nft to provide /usr/sbin/iptables
    (iptables) in auto mode
    update-alternatives: using /usr/sbin/ip6tables-nft to provide /usr/sbin/ip6table
    s (ip6tables) in auto mode

    root@phydroxide:~# apt install gufw ufw iptables sshuttle

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    iptables : Depends: libiptc0 (= 1.6.1-2ubuntu2) but 1.8.4-3ubuntu2 is to be installed
    Depends: libxtables12 (= 1.6.1-2ubuntu2) but 1.8.4-3ubuntu2 is to be installed
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    ufw status
    ERROR: Couldn’t determine iptables version

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  595. I’ve done the upgrade through the “upgrade procedure”. All things are went fine. Anyway the process it’s too long and too many manual commands to give to the system. It’s not for all people. This it’s not accetable for a great distribution like Mint. I think that you have to push to develop a secure, automatic and reliable upgrade process that anyone can do by one-click.

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  596. Witam wszystkich, 14 razy próbowałem aktualizacji do 20 Ulyana ,nie działa u mnie.Może ktoś napisze,pomoże krok po kroku.Pozdrawiam.

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  598. Motoryzen here.

    Hey Clem.

    1st. A big congrats on the progress you and the Mint team(s) have done over the past 10 years. Among those improvements, improvements to Wine and invention of Lutris as well as proton from Valve within Steam, and my finally learning how to get Redshift running, I’ve finally left windows forever as of late July 2020.

    2nd. I have some constructive feedback regarding the installation wizard of Mint cinnamon. Unless you all have change something recently since early July 2020, unlike in xfce, at the end there is no black screen telling the user ” please remove any installation media and then press enter to restart”.

    The reason this is important is because in xfce, this gives the user plenty of time to remove the installation drive before his or her PC is trying to POST let alone milliseconds after POST and the PC is looking for boot media. Thus with cinnamon, it is a timing …well guessing game as to when the user must know the system has shut down enough if choosing” restart now” versus risking yanking it too soon and for some odd reason the drive they were installing Mint cinnamon into acts like there is no way to boot or grub is messed up.

    Please be it you, or whoever is in charge of this, add that same message screen that is available at the very end of installing mint xfce.

    Otherwise to save new users a confusion headache, I tell them to ” continue testing” and then open the cinnamon menu, select the light switch icon in order to select Shut down so they can at their pace remove the installation drive, then power the machine back on, and it should auto boot to the correct drive or worse case to spam their setup/uefi/bios fkey to then get to the screen to select that mint newly installed drive.

    3rd. Every time in the cinnamon panel if I already have it set to ” auto hide”, and I add anything to it, ( be it right clicking and ” add” or from cinnamon menu right click ” add to panel”..it stretches/distorts whatever section of it…left…center…right every time). I must then open Panel settings, and select ” always show”, and then under ” colored icon size” toggle that size back and forth to fix it.

    This is an odd bug ( not a deal breaker mind you, but still). I’ve tried intelligent auto hide but it just doesn’t behave correctly for me.

    Thanks for your time Clem and mint team(s). Cheers

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  599. just wanted to say THANK YOU!

    managed to upgrade and up and running in 50 mins on an old msi fx720 with dual boot:

    OS: Linux Mint 20 x86_64
    Host: MS-1754 REV:1.0
    Kernel: 5.4.0-47-generic
    Uptime: 3 hours, 4 mins
    Packages: 2305 (dpkg)
    Shell: bash 5.0.17
    Resolution: 1600×900, 1920×1200
    DE: Cinnamon
    WM: Mutter (Muffin)
    Theme: Mint-Y-Dark (Mint-Y)
    Theme: Mint-Y [GTK2/3]
    Icons: Mint-Y [GTK2/3]
    Terminal: gnome-terminal
    CPU: Intel i5-2410M (4) @ 2.900GHz
    GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
    GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor
    Memory: 2180MiB / 3843MiB

    thank you. :]

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  601. Greetings:
    I upgraded from 19.3 to 20. The upgrade went perfectly without any glitches at all. When I rebooted my laptop all the text was in hex. Any idea what went wrong and how to avoid it with my next upgrade? I used TimeShift to roll back to 19.3.

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  602. After Linux Mint 20 reinstallation, the update crached on “secureboot” several times.
    What must i do to overcome this problem?.

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  603. I upgraded my linux mint from version 19.3 (Tricia) to version 20 (Ulyana) and everything went well. But I was not able to run GIMP in it. I also fresh installed mint but every time I faced the same problem. GIMP raises Segmentation Fault error and does not start. I installed gimp through terminal, installed it through software manager, I used flatpak version, I used PPA even used appimage but none of them worked. I wanted to make it from source but could not meet dependencies. Some components used a version that was not compatible with the version of another component. Mostly I faced version incompatibility with GEGL, babl and related components. I asked for help in HexChat many times but none worked. Lastly I was forced to re-install linux mint 19.3 (Tricia). I can install and run GIMP from repository but with this installation of mint, I still cannot use higher versions of gimp (PPA/Flatpak versions does not work. The same error “segmentation fault”). I could used gimp 2.20 prior to the upgrade but with this install I can’t. It is good that at least I can use gimp version 2.8.22 with this install although I miss many functionalities.

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  604. Bonjour de France à tous,
    Pour moi tout c’est très bien passé.
    J’ai suivi à la lettre toutes les instructions données et cela a fonctionné
    Je suis en train de tester
    A+

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  605. Buenas tardes…
    levo poco tiempo con este sistema y aun no estoy muy lucho pero lo que he visto hasta hora me a encantado, de echo lo tengo instalado en mis tres maquinas.

    ahora bien después de leer todos los comentarios me genera la duda si actualizar o esperar. ¿alguien me puede orientar? tengo la versión Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon en un Procesador Intel© Celeron© CPU G1840 @ 2.80GHz × 2.
    Muchas Gracias…

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  606. valla me he aventurado a seguir los pasos para la instalación, pero al ser novato y no tener Experiencia con APT. no se si hacerlo o no . ¿que me aconsejáis?. …

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    1. Hola, tuve que instalar LM 19.3 en una máquina nueva y me aventuré a seguir las indicaciones para un upgrade a LM 20 como aqui se indica. No tuve ningún problema ! y tengo LM 20 corriendo perfectamente. Espero que haya un upgrade desde la aplicación para administración de software. Asi, solo me queda aconsejarte que la hagáis… suerte.

  608. Hi
    I upgraded to Linux mint 20 Cinnamon recently. After the upgrade my laptop doesnt boot up with charging power cable connected. Without a charging power cable, it says unable to find region and fails to boot into linux.

    I have a dual boot with Windows.

    Any pointer could be very helpful. Thanks you.

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  609. Dear hard worker for us, many thanks for you work !
    You are great !
    But can you please the list for the programs made from A to Z sort is not easy what i looking for to find.
    This would be great !
    All the best for you !

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  611. I have to be perfectly honest. I was excited about the upgrade but, in the end, I reverted to Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon because it is more responsive and stable. It’s not clear why, but Mint 20 is just not the build to run on my Thinkpad X220.

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  612. I tried twice to upgrade from 19.3 to 20 according to the instructions. No success. “mintupgrade check” and “mintupgrade download” ran ok, but during “mintupgrade upgrade” many error messages popped up – dependency problems that I am really unable to fix. It seems that I am forced to do a fresh install. Maybe I switch back to Ubuntu – upgrades in Ubuntu ran always without any errors. I am really disappointed. I donated several times to LM but this experience is a real bummer.

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  613. #DUVIDA

    Eu utilizo Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon, instalando esta vesão Linux Mint 20, ela apaga os documentos que possuo ?

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  614. I’m kinda worried? It’s been 2hrs now since mint upgrade has been running?
    My pc has 4GB ram and 500GB space.. it’s taking so long , it feels like it’s stuck in a loop or something. Is there a standard time for upgrade?

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  615. I have two encrypted logical partitions, updating to Linux Mint 20, it will work fine? I wouldn’t miss any configuration or lost these encrypted partitions, right?
    Did you test update with encrypted home folder and encrypted logical partitions?

    Thanks

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  616. I was running 19.3 Tina and I followed the upgrade to 20 Ulanda directions. It seemed to have a successful installation after a reboot. I then went to update manager and did an update of files it recommended. After that I rebooted and then check update manager again and there was a “graphics” update that was recommended so I did it then after reboot I could never get graphics (screen was all horizontal melting lines.
    I’m currently restoring a timeshift I did back in May (bummer). I hope the snapshot repairs and gets my back to my darling Tina….

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    1. It is curious … I have a machine with Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti. I couldn’t install LM 20 because when the live USB system started the screen was with melted horizontal lines ( similar as your description). That happened also with the Live USB with LM 19.3, but it works with the Live USB installation for LM 19.0 ! So I install LM19.0, I fixed there the Nvidia driver ! afterwards I upgraded it to LM 19.3 and after that I followed up the instruction to upgrade all to LM 20. The Nvidia driver installed is stable and it is not the LM 20 recommended one… If I make any change in this matter I recommend to create a Timeshift first in case you need to go back to a stable system. But my open questions are about the installation USB system…. will be happened the same for the next LM 20.1 ? will be an upgrade offered in the system administration menu ? what about the graphic driver offered and specially the recommended one?

  617. I like to use linux and I like it a lot.
    Trying to upgrade the latest Mint 19 Cinnamon version to the newest Mint 20 with no success. For Mint 19 I made 21GB root / partition and rest of the space I gave to the user as daily runner. Now, despite of checking all kind of things and following instruction provided by Mint team/web page, I did face the fact that my 21GB space running out of limit at the worst possible time during the installation. No chance to pause or correct situation during the installation before it was too late.
    Even if linux is awesome OS nowadays, this kind of upgrade errors are really big nightmare for average users.
    Found out that the most likely reason of unsuccessful install is flatpack. I had installed a few software from flatpack as a normal user and it takes over 7GB from root partition. Maybe I do not understand this “flatpack” logic correct way but in my opinion this is not a good etiquette of usability. Somehow this risk should be verified before starting the installation or change to flatpack to use user partition instead of root partition.

    PS. nevertheless, thank you for excellent development work and great operating system!

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  618. I have upgraded to Mint 20 also. It seemed to go ok. But a lot of my programs do not work anymore. Reaper cannot load my plugins. In Cabbage, many .so files give errors, like:
    WARNING: could not open library ‘/usr/local/lib/csound/plugins64-6.0/libserial.so’ (/usr/local/lib/csound/plugins64-6.0/libserial.so: undefined symbol: __pow_finite)
    Not fine!

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  620. I ran $ sudo mintupgrade check but got
    “Please don’t run this command as root or with elevated privileges.”
    So I ran $ mintupgrade check and got
    !! ERROR: The following 3rd party repositories were detected. Disable them and refresh your APT cache.

    – DEB (obs://private/DEB/xUbuntu_18.04) – mega.nz
    – Docker CE (Docker) – download.docker.com
    – Google (Google LLC) – dl.google.com
    – MySQL (MySQL) – repo.mysql.com
    – New Python Versions (LP-PPA-deadsnakes) – ppa.launchpad.net
    – OBS Studio (LP-PPA-obsproject-obs-studio) – ppa.launchpad.net
    – Official Vivaldi package repository (Vivaldi Technologies) – repo.vivaldi.com
    – Rhythmbox third-party plugins (LP-PPA-fossfreedom-rhythmbox-plugins) – ppa.launchpad.net
    – SDL2 Backport to Bionic (LP-PPA-cybermax-dexter-sdl2-backport) – ppa.launchpad.net
    – Spotify Public Repository (Spotify LTD) – repository.spotify.com
    – Xamarin-Stable-Bionic (XamarinBionic) – download.mono-project.com
    – microsoft-ubuntu-eoan-prod eoan (microsoft-ubuntu-eoan-prod eoan) – packages.microsoft.com
    – sendanywhere (sendanywhere) – update.send-anywhere.com
    – slack (packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack) – packagecloud.io
    – vscode stable (vscode stable) – packages.microsoft.com
    – winehq (dl.winehq.org) – dl.winehq.org
    ————————————————————————————————————————-
    How do I proceed?

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  621. I hit an issue with samba during the upgrade – I removed samba from the system and tried to continue – but now upgrade is refusing to work until it downgrades all the packages that have been upgraded already. Is there any way to continue the upgrade from where it left off without resetting the system back to 19.3?

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  622. Hello, i have some broken dependencies after upgrade mint 19.3 to 20. “apt –fix-broken install” does not work, because it only shows possible commands of apt. Can anybody help?

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  623. Hi,
    I’m newbie to Linux Mint and I love it, but when trying to update to ver. 20 I get this message
    “The repository ‘cdrom://Linux Mint 19.2 _Tina_ – Release amd64 20190729 bionic Release’ does not have a Release file.”
    How do I change to a working repository??
    Thanx.. 🙂

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    1. Hi Benke,

      See if you can remove it using the Software Sources tool. Alternatively, remove the cdrom lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.

  625. Is it required to backup my home and other files/folders?
    Is it possible to lose any file during upgrading from 19.3?

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  627. My upgrade is failing with this:

    samba-libs : Depends: libldb2 (>= 2:2.0.10~) but it is not installed
    Depends: python3-talloc (>= 2.2.0~) but it is not installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt –fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to dist-upgrade some of the packages. Please review the error message, use APT to fix the situation and try again.
    !! Exiting.

    I note with displeasure that “apt fix-broken install” merely displays the apt help.

    “apt install libldb2” complains that the python3-talloc dependency is not satisfied.
    “apt install python3-talloc” complains that the libldb2 dependency is not satisfied.
    Talk about a catch-22!

    Any advice? Going back to 19.3 for the time being; I need a working computer. But I’d love to be able to upgrade!

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  628. I tried to upgrade back in July and it failed due to unmet dependencies all revolving around python3. Many of the system windows (Control Center, Preferences, Update Manager, etc) would not open and the “apt” program did not work; error messages indicate it is missing the module “apt_pkg”.
    Have these been fixed? Will there be a time before 2023 when an upgrade has a better chance of working?

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  629. I upgraded from v19 to v20 facing screen resolution problems with the INTEL graphic card on an INTEL PC that I could solve by activating it by hand with an screen.sh file. Before in v19 this trick was added in the XORG-file but in v20 that did not work. Until now i reinstalled v20 twice to get it working smooth like v19. Running kernel 5.4.0-xx I faced more and more issues that I solved changing to kernel 5.8.0-xx. For some reason 5.4.0.xx did not finish starting up and told me it was still performing things so I had no rights even when everything looks right. My solution in kernel 5.4.0-xx was to use the IBM-trick: just pull the plug and wait a minute. After a reboot Mint v20 always runs without problems! After activating kernel 5.8.0-xx this issue is pasted.
    My wife on a recent Medion PC faces no problems where I on an older Intel do. Start to think that the developers have problems supporting my hardware.

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  630. Hi Clam,

    My problem report:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    libgirepository-1.0-1 : Breaks: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) but 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 is to be installed
    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    + Restoring your backed up APT sources…

    After typing "inxi -r":
    Repos:
    No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linrunner-tlp-bionic.list
    Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
    6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
    No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xorg-edgers-ppa-bionic.list

    After typing "apt policy":
    Package files:
    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    release a=now
    500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic/partner i386 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Canonical,a=bionic,n=bionic,l=Partner archive,c=partner,b=i386
    origin archive.canonical.com
    500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic/partner amd64 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Canonical,a=bionic,n=bionic,l=Partner archive,c=partner,b=amd64
    origin archive.canonical.com
    500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse i386 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=i386
    origin security.ubuntu.com
    500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=amd64
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    500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe i386 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
    origin security.ubuntu.com
    500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/universe amd64 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
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    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-security,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
    origin security.ubuntu.com
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse i386 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-updates,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=i386
    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe i386 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic-updates,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/restricted i386 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/restricted amd64 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse i386 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted i386 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
    500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/restricted amd64 Packages
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    origin archive.ubuntu.com
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    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=i386
    origin archive.ubuntu.com
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    release v=18.04,o=Ubuntu,a=bionic,n=bionic,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
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    500 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/backport amd64 Packages
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    origin packages.linuxmint.com
    500 http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia/import i386 Packages
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    origin packages.linuxmint.com
    Pinned packages:

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  631. Seems to me like it’s significantly easier just to take a copy of your data then do a fresh install of 20.

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  632. I’m having an issue at this point when installing (***XXX***):

    Purge PPAs and 3rd party repositories

    PPAs or 3rd party repositories can introduce issues during the upgrade if the versions of the packages they provide are higher than in Linux Mint 20. This can result in unmet dependencies, held packages or resolver issues.

    To purge 3rd party packages follow these steps:

    ***GOOD Launch the Software Sources tool from Menu ‣ Administration ‣ Software Sources.
    ***NOTHING POPULATED Open the Additional repositories tab and disable all additional repositories.
    ***NOTHING POPULATED Open the PPA tab and disable all PPAs.
    ***GOOD Click on the button to refresh your APT cache.
    ***GOOD Open the Maintenance tab and click on Downgrade Foreign Packages.
    ***GOOD Select all foreign packages and click Downgrade.
    ***GOOD Click on Remove Foreign Packages.
    ***XXX*** FAILS TO REMOVE ANY PACKAGES Select all foreign packages and click Remove.
    ***XXX***GET ERROR SAYING “FAILED TO REMOVE ESSENTIAL SYSTEM PACKAGE”
    ***XXX***DETAILS OF ESSENTIAL SYSTEM PACKAGES ARE (mountall, libprocps4, insserv, libcryptsetup4, initscripts)
    ***XXX***EACH PACKAGE POPS UP IN DETAILS 1 AT A TIME AFTER I UNCHECK THE PREVIOUS “ESSENTIAL” PACKAGE
    ***XXX***ONCE I UNCHECK THE 5TH “ESSENTIAL” PACKAGE I AM THEN TOLD THAT “ADDITIONAL CHANGES ARE REQUIRED: INSTALL: libtidy5 (1:5.2.0-2) REMOVE: initscripts (2.88dsf-59.3ubuntu2)
    WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO FIX THIS???
    Reboot the computer.
    Create another Timeshift snapshot.

    Please Help!

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  633. I do not recommend upgrade do fresh install instead. I wanted to make Nvidia Optimus work but with upgrade spent almost day with no result. Fresh install is straight forward and takes less than 1 hour.

    Reply

  634. Hi,

    “mintupgrade check” looks fine, but when I try “mintupgrade download”, some files cannot be downloaded:

    ======
    1920 upgraded, 341 newly installed, 31 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 647 kB/1,743 MB of archives.
    After this operation, 1,151 MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 libpangomm-1.4-1v5 amd64 2.42.0-2build1
    Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    Err:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 libsdl-pango1 amd64 0.1.2-8
    Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    Err:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 libcogl-pango20 amd64 1.22.6-1
    Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    Err:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 amd64 1.22.6-1
    Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    Err:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 network-manager-openvpn amd64 1.8.12-1
    Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    Err:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 network-manager-openvpn-gnome amd64 1.8.12-1
    Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    Err:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 openvpn amd64 2.4.7-1ubuntu2
    Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pangomm/libpangomm-1.4-1v5_2.42.0-2build1_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/sdlpango/libsdl-pango1_0.1.2-8_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cogl/libcogl-pango20_1.22.6-1_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cogl/gir1.2-coglpango-1.0_1.22.6-1_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/network-manager-openvpn/network-manager-openvpn_1.8.12-1_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/network-manager-openvpn/network-manager-openvpn-gnome_1.8.12-1_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openvpn/openvpn_2.4.7-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Connection failed [IP: 91.189.88.142 80]
    E: Some files failed to download

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: Failed to download packages for the upgrade.
    !! Exiting.
    ————————————————

    + Restoring your backed up APT sources…
    ======

    I can ping 98.189.88.42 with no issues. If I visit those URLs, some show “not found” error, while some return “the connection was reset” when I visit parent path then click on the file (e.g. http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cogl/gir1.2-coglpango-1.0_1.22.6-1_amd64.deb).

    How can I proceed?

    Thank you,
    Roger

    Reply

  635. I have mint 19.3 and with Google Chrome I installed it and it will not allow me to upload pictures to social media sites such as FB. On my android I have no problem to uploading to any site. I had another laptop before this one with 19.3 on it also and I never had issues. I was going to upgrade to mint 20 as I did download and made a disc. But after reading all the bugs I am going to wait since we still get updates till 2023. But I am wondering if there is a way to fix this error with google chrome and mint

    Reply

    1. I’m stunned, shocked, and amazed to read all the upgrade troubles. I too will stick with 19.3 until the issues are resolved. BTW, Chrome and Facebook track you and build a profile to sell to third parties, gov’t as well as corporate.

  636. Congratulations on producing the latest iterations of a great distro, and many thanks. However, like many others, I spent a day dealing with numerous problems in attempting this upgrade and eventually reverted back to 19.3 with TimeShift. Considering the target user base of Linuxmint, it seems inconsistent with the philosophy of such a nicely curated distro to have System Reports nagging people to upgrade to 20 when it is not at all straight forward. I seem to remember the previous upgrade being a much smoother experience. Once again, thanks for all the great work.

    Reply

    1. I agree 100% 2 days and nothing but head aches 404, fails , and more erros and fails.

  637. I am a retired C++ programmer (40+ years from machine language to C++) and I find 99% of the above conversations to be gibberish to me. I dont understand “just delete that and enable this” and other such statements. I know that I will screw it up because I dont understand the instructions.
    I have been running mint 19.xx for some time now. dont know what I did to install it, but it wasnt this difficult!!
    If I continue with 19, after the date I saw above, will it still work?

    Reply

    1. Jim, not affiliated with the Linux Mint project, just a power-ish user, and had a career in systems admin & technical support. Cut my teeth on Solaris systems back in the day.

      Your machine will run, but web standards and media standards (audio/video) will move on, and you’ll have increasing security risks as more security vulnerabilities are discovered and not addressed. It is generally also easier to upgrade regularly than once in a while. That said, your best bet is to back up your /home directory, and move it to a separate partition, so that upgrades are easier. If you don’t care about your home partition being encrypted, it becomes fairly easy to do an install and just add the users appropriately in the same order every time so they they get the same user IDs.

    2. Hello Jim,

      Figured it out with some help and some sleuthing. Here’s what I did, in script forum. Website references in echos. I can’t vouch for the safety, use at your own risk, I am not responsible for effects of this for any reason, and my references are documented. I have confirmed scanning and printing both work for my printer.

      sudo apt install cups cups-client cups-filters cups-ipp-utils
      sudo service cups start
      echo
      echo # See https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/
      echo
      sudo bash -c ‘echo “deb https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra” >> /etc/apt/sources.list’
      echo
      echo # https://supersuser.com/questions/1331936/how-can-i-get-past-a-repository-is-not-signed-message-when-attempting-to-upgr^C
      echo # The following was necessary on my system to install the repository.
      echo # There are security considerations here that I should investigate, but
      echo # haven’t yet.
      echo
      sudo apt-get update –allow-unauthenticated –allow-insecure-repositories
      sudo apt-get install suld-*
      sudo apt-get install suldr-keyring
      sudo apt-get install suld-driver2-1.00.39

  639. i have a problem with the APT:

    dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes python3-gi (–configure):
    Abhängigkeitsprobleme – verbleibt unkonfiguriert
    Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
    python3
    python3-gi

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  640. While running the command “mintupgrade upgrade”, I’m getting error “job for upower.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered to the control process” in between the upgrade process.
    Moreover, I can see weird logo for Brightness.
    Can anyone help me how to resolve this issue?

    Reply

  641. I have tried the upgrade to 20.1 Ulyssa – Mate on Four different laptops. I prepared for the upgrades and backed up my documents (thank god I did). All the upgrades had issue’s. I scrubbed the idea of upgrading and did fresh installs of 20.1 on all four laptops. Each laptop (a toshiba, a Dell and two HP’s) had it’s own litany of issues. So many things have regressed/broken in this new version of Mint that I am going to go back to Sylvia. Just a few of the issue’s:
    1. Sound hardware settings not persistent (hdmi audio keeps resetting to internal speakers on one machine). On another laptop no sound will play regardless of setting…but the speaker test works.
    2. Strange instability…..Pithos (a pandora client) starts to buffer and locks up. I’ve never had an issue with that app before.
    3. Wireless network settings no longer persistent. Every time you reboot; you have to reselect your network.
    The list is much longer ….I’m just tired of even thinking about it. The same things stay broken and now they are breaking the few things that did work.

    Reply

  642. I just wanted to say that “downgrade and remove all foreign packages” is literally like saying “please, format your computer and do a fresh install”. I looked into the list of my foreign packages, they are all the programs I actually use so no, I won’t remove them. I will wait a year or two to do a fresh install if in the meanwhile a better upgrading process was not done.

    Reply

  645. I still have 19.3 but followed the “Upgrade to 20” message. It seems that most of the
    problems still exist from last fall, and many people have kept 19.3.
    Uh, reading these messages, I would this say this upgrade is a disaster. If Microsoft or OSX had these problems millions of people would be screaming.

    Reply

  646. alguem poderia me ajudar meu google chrome nao fica aberto sempre que ele abre ele fecha sozinho logo depois isso tambem acontece com outros apps como o youtube e netflix

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  648. I have upgrade my linuxmint 19.3 to 20, the installation run normally but after booting in the login screen, I can’t type anything (mouse and keyboard can’t work).
    please help me, what must i do?

    Thanks.

    Reply

    1. Can you plug another keyboard to get access to the terminal and start troubleshooting? Do you have the synaptics driver installed by any chance?

    2. I try another external mouse and keyboard but still freeze and can’t do anything in login screen and keyboard run normally in other process. So, i must shutdown by press power button because can’t login to mint. When I try installing fresh install mint 20 by USB the graphic error too.

    3. Same thing happened to me yesterday. Oddly, I can run 20 with no issues while it is booted it from the ISO thumb drive. I downgraded the install back to 19.3 and everything works again. Going to try it again and see if it takes.

  650. Thank you developers of THIS AND OTHER SOFTWARE YOU HAVE FREELY given to some of us who cant always afford these apps ,operating systems and such,you guys and gals do not owe us anything so no complaining here !!!!

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  654. while upgrading i see these prompts in loop
    ”
    depmod……………….

    DKMS: uninstall completed.

    ——– Uninstall Beginning ——–
    Module: rtl8821ce
    Version: 5.5.2.1
    Kernel: 5.4.0-48-generic (x86_64)
    ————————————-

    Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

    rtl8821ce.ko:
    – Uninstallation
    – Deleting from: /lib/modules/5.4.0-48-generic/updates/
    – Original module
    – No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
    – Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

    depmod……………

    DKMS: uninstall completed.

    ”

    what went wrong

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  655. Loved Mint 19.3 until I did an update to prepare for 20.

    After making sure my Linux Mint 19.3 was fully up to date, I can no longer past URLs into Firefox and can no longer past Login/Passwords from my KeePass Password program into Firefox OR Google Chrome.

    I am certainly very reluctant at this point to go further as even using the “about:config” and setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false, does NOT restore the copy/paste function. I made sure my KeePass program was working by copy/paste into an e-mail without any problem. I use very long and complex passwords and this will force me to shorter and easier to enter passwords with will result in lower security.

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  656. Hi,
    Trying to upgrade, i got the following message :
    Checking your APT packages…

    – debhelper: 12.1.1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 11.1.6ubuntu2 (from bionic-updates)
    – dh-autoreconf: 19~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 17 (from bionic)
    – dropbox: 2020.03.04, should be 2019.02.14 (from tricia)
    – gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1: 12.10.1+18.04.20200408.1-0ubuntu1, should be 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-1mint2 (from tricia)
    – init: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
    – init-system-helpers: 1.56+nmu1~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 1.51 (from bionic)
    – iproute2: 4.18.0-1ubuntu2~ubuntu18.04.1, should be 4.15.0-2ubuntu1.3 (from bionic-updates)
    – libappindicator0.1-cil: 12.10.1+18.04.20200408.1-0ubuntu1, should be 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-1mint2 (from tricia)
    – libappindicator1: 12.10.1+18.04.20200408.1-0ubuntu1, should be 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-1mint2 (from tricia)
    – libappindicator3-1: 12.10.1+18.04.20200408.1-0ubuntu1, should be 12.10.1+18.04.20180322.1-1mint2 (from tricia)
    – spotify-client: 1:1.1.84.716.gc5f8b819, should be 1:1.1.10.546.ge08ef575-19 (from tricia)
    – ttf-mscorefonts-installer: 3.8, should be 3.6ubuntu2 (from bionic)

    ————————————————
    !! ERROR: The packages above have incorrect versions. They can be downgraded using ‘Software Sources -> Maintenance -> Downgrade Foreign Packages’.
    !! Exiting.

    I am with the french version of Mint 19.3 and the “Downgrade Foreign Packages” command is not display.
    I only have “Remove foreign packages” and ‘Restore foreign packages”.
    I already have removed them, but this error still appear.
    What to do ? Any Advice ? thx

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    1. I have downgraded manually
      Now i get this error i don’t understand
      Should i downgrade python-gi ?

      Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
      libgirepository-1.0-1 : Casse: python-gi (< 3.34.0-4~) mais 3.26.1-2ubuntu1 devra être installé
      E: Erreur, pkgProblem::Resolve a généré des ruptures, ce qui a pu être causé par les paquets devant être gardés en l'état.
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/mintupgrade", line 726, in module
      upgrader.check()
      File "/usr/bin/mintupgrade", line 498, in check
      cache.upgrade(True)
      File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 385, in upgrade
      self._depcache.upgrade(dist_upgrade)
      apt_pkg.Error: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

    3. Seems better but 3 new packages to downgrade

      + Checking your APT packages…
      – linux-generic-hwe-18.04: 5.4.0.109.123~18.04.94, should be 5.4.0.109.113 (from focal-updates)
      – linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04: 5.4.0.109.123~18.04.94, should be 5.4.0.109.113 (from focal-updates)
      – linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04: 5.4.0.109.123~18.04.94, should be 5.4.0.109.113 (from focal-updates)

      !! ERROR: The packages above have incorrect versions. They can be downgraded using ‘Software Sources -> Maintenance -> Downgrade Foreign Packages’.

      I will try to downgrade manually too

    4. Do you have access to 5.4.0.109.113? You can check with:

      apt policy linux-generic-hwe-18.04

      If so, then force the downgrade manually:

      sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-18.04=5.4.0.109.113 linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04=5.4.0.109.113 linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04=5.4.0.109.113

    5. These last 3 I cannot force to an earlier version, the option is grey inside the menu . why ?
      I also lost my internet connection through wifi ;-(

  658. Hello everyone, i am afraid i need help with the dark art of upgrading to Mint 20.

    Mintupgrade (options check and upgrade) always gets stuck on a Teamspeak 3 package that does not exist anymore anywhere on the system. The instructions mentioned here are false concerning this issue. The step of purging/downgrading/whateverkilling PPA / third party packages / unknown software and suchlike is NOT “optional” as mintupgrade refuses to work when it believes there is anything it dislikes present on the system.
    The software sources tool is unable to locate the fictitional TeamSpeak 3 package, so no luck trying to remove that issue following the instructions here. The package had been removed uing the update manager so theoretically it should register as not installed. Which it does for every software involved, except for mintupgrade.

    Is there any method to update despite non existant “foreign” or otherwise disliked packages or would i really need to wipe the HDD and do a fresh install ?

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  659. Ok forget it. My previous issue could be solved by rm -rf the faulty entries in /var/lib/apt/lists which means the persistent file from Teamspeak as well as the faulty lists generated from apt itself.

    After this, i was dumb enough to update all through to 20.3. in hope that the main issues of 20.0 had been adressed.

    As “reward” i now have an “upgraded” system that refuses to let me set up a hotspot without using a multitude of workarounds due to a sudden change in “system policy” i never initiated nor accepted. Of course without a clue where to read or change said “policy”.

    The “upgraded” system also features communications issues with several formerly unproblematic USB devices. Both arduino(Nano) and ESP 8266 are among them. Due to lack of useable error messages, i cannot discern wether this is an issue with the arduino IDE, new issues with the communication chips (CH340 and such) or just another case of “we dont need to support older hardware anymore”.
    So its back to the backup AKA 19.3.

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  660. Reading many of the comments above, it seems that I would be wise to keep with 19.3 until it goes end of life. And if I should have to do a fresh install at that time, is there any good reason to stay with Mint? I seem to remember similar difficulties when moving from 18.3 to some variant of 19.

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  661. am under Linux mint Tricia version 19, it is impossible for me to migrate to vannasse version 20 I have error codes I have tried everything but nothing worked and I have seen on troubleshooting websites that Other users have this problem too.

    thank you for agreeing to continue the updates under my version and solve this problem which has been going on for 2 years

    M saviane

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  662. It’s useful and wonderfully written. It is highly recommended that you read this material. I’ll let my friends know about this!

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  663. Hi, I dual booted with the second operating system, the most current version available on the website being 21.
    Is there any user-friendly way to move applications and their operating system settings from version 19.3 to 21?

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  664. Hello! I’m new to linux. I’m using linux mint. I get a message that mint is no longer supported, but I do all of the updates and my shield has a nice green check mark and it says, “your system is up to date.” Do I have to do any more updates? Thank you!
    Dave

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  665. After reading all of the nightmares posted,
    I think I will stay with Tricia 19.3
    And when it comes to system snapshots,
    I’ll stick with RESCUEZILLA, thankyou.

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