It is now possible to upgrade LMDE 6 to version 7.
First, refresh your cache and install the Upgrade Tool by typing the following commands in a terminal:
apt update
apt install mintupgradeThen type the following command to launch the Upgrade Tool:
sudo mintupgrade
Follow the instructions on the screen.
When the tool is done and the upgrade is successful uninstall it and reboot your computer.
apt remove mintupgrade
sudo rebootThis is a major upgrade. It can take several hours.
You will be asked to be up to date and to prepare system snapshots. Do not rush, do not take shortcuts.
Don’t hesitate to seek help if you have questions or if you face problems with the upgrade.
Notes:
- If you have other ways of rolling back the upgrade and restoring your system to the way it was before, you can skip the system snapshots requirement by disabling it in the preferences.
- Temporary files are left behind during the upgrade. Please read section 5.1.6 of the Debian 13 release notes for information on this issue and how to remove these files.
- Debian discontinued support for i386 so LMDE 7 is only available in 64-bit. It is not possible to upgrade from LMDE 6 32-bit.
Thanks for this new version of LMDE, and sorry again to be noisy on the LINUXMINT forum.
This has worked for me on two laptops already, thank you very much!
Interestingly,
I have a /boot/efi partition of only 260MB, but /boot resides in my / partition (which has plenty of space).
Thanks for the hard work, this is amazing!!!
That’s the standard and recommended setup for a modern Linux installation using UEFI.
– The EFI partition (the 260MB FAT32 one) is mounted to the directory /boot/efi inside your main root (/) partition.
– The key is the difference between the two directories:
/boot/efi – This is where the EFI System Partition is mounted. It only holds the very small UEFI boot loaders (.efi files) that the motherboard firmware is designed to read.
/boot (the larger directory that contains /boot/efi) – This lives on your main root partition and holds the large Linux kernels (vmlinuz-*) and initial RAM disks (initrd.img-*).
This separation works perfectly because the main GRUB bootloader file, which is on the EFI partition, simply points to the kernels that are on the main root partition’s /boot directory. It’s the most efficient way to partition a drive!
Very, very many thanks for all your efforts in producing lmde7. Nice to be able to avoid all the ubuntu stuff. 🙂
Thanks for LMDE I am really enjoying using it, great experience its now my daily driver.
Upgrade worked flawlessly – except one thing: afterwards I had to install the localisation files for libreoffice manually, because they were missing (libreoffice-l10n-de & libreoffice-help-de).
I see that my Linux Mint version can’t be upgraded into that one (“Zara”). What do i do then? Do i leave it as is, or is there a different upgrade? I’m new to it, so the answer could be obvious to you or not.
Waiting so many time… Finally we can enjoy this LMDE 7. Thanks so much!!!
Great News
Q. Can the upgrade tool be pointed at a previously downloaded LMDE 7 iso.
Would save downloading 2+ times and may make install process faster.
I’ve been on LMDE since the beginning (LMDE “one”!) and never looked back. Thanks for the seventh incarnation of this great distro. 🙏
The Foreign Packages step in the mintupgrade tool doesn’t do anything to downgrade packages to oldstable when I click Fix. Should I wait for an update or other instructions, or attempt to downgrade them with aptitude?
Or should I forge ahead with apt dist-upgrade?
Thanks for your word preparing the tools !
This worked fine and I am using LMDE every day.
No need for windows with Thunderbird, Firefox, LibreOffice, Apache Server and more …
Have a good internet connection ready, these were about 2.500 downloads …
Upgrading 32 bit systems to Gigi: The cinnamon desktop won’t upgrade, but if you have a slow old 32 bit device like an old eee pc, then you might use the mate desktop, which can be upgraded to LMDE 7 / trixie.
Possibly also fine with xfce etc?
Danke für die gute Arbeit zum upgrade auf LMDE 7! Mintupdate hat ganz schön geschaufelt…es hat sich gelohnt! Ich bin seit langem begeisteter LMDE-user!
Anmerkung: Um die aktuelle Virtualbox zur Arbeit zu bewegen, braucht es derzeit noch den Eintrag
“sudo modprobe -r kvm_intel” im Terminal! Vielleicht gibt es ja zeitnah eine Korrektur!
Mit Respekt Grüße an das LMDE-Team
Ludwig
Can I install LMDE 7 with secure boot enabled, sir?
Upgrade went perfectly from 6 to 7! So well set up steps during the installation procedure, Team! THANKS!
Worked perfectly.
Thank you very much for the great work!
LMDE 7 BETA version had no issues for me during testing. I’ve been using LMDE since v4, and had a better experience with LMDE stability-wise than the regular Linux Mint versions. Only thing that regular LM has that is an advantage is the device driver app, which makes the installation of proprietary video drivers a snap. Would be great if this could be ported to LMDE.
Smooth upgrade on my old Thinkpad E560. LMDE is the best distro for me. Thanks to Clem and team… your effort is really appreciated.
Started with LMDE 6 as a windows 11 refugee, since I am on older hardware. Worked pretty neat, some tinkering here and there required but the community is fantastic and now I would never switch back. I am excited to test LMDE 7 and see if its holds up to the hype.
Working fine on an old Dell XPS 9370, i7-8550 16GB. Initially installed some years ago with LMDE 5, upgraded with no issues to LMDE 6 and today to LMDE 7.
Congratulations on your excellent work!
Fantastic…. Thank you so much!
The mint-upgrade tool hit too many roadblocks in my test host. I’m comfortable working with apt from the command line, so updated the official package repository list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and proceeded with upgrading that way.
Rodando liso no meu Lenovo Thinkpad T430. É minha máquina principal, e já rodava o LMDE 6. Obrigado!!!
I have a issue with the installation from 6 to 7. The problem is with brave-browser but even if i disinstall it, mintupgrade tell me to remove this file but i don’t know how to do that. Can anyone help me please?
I guess my 32 bit ideapad will be staying at LMDE 6,. I don’t see a supported until date for LMDE 6.
I’m so happy for this new version. LMDE is solid rock. Thank you guys for all your hard work
I am running Faye as a Virtualbox VM.
mike@LMDE:/etc/linuxmint$ cat info
RELEASE=6
CODENAME=faye
EDITION=”Cinnamon”
DESCRIPTION=”LMDE 6 Faye”
I ran:
apt update
apt install mintupgrade
sudo mintupgrade
It’s a bare bones install. Nothing other than the basic code plus the Brave browser. But it appears to be stuck at “Fixing check ‘System snapshots'” and a “checking system snapshots”. FYI, because this is a VM, I don’t run TimeShift.
Hello, I just follow the steps and my old Intel Core 2 Duo iMac got the new version without trouble!!
Thank you so much 🙂
I had errors when upgrading. I had to uncheck timeshift in the preference box and also add –allowerasing to mintupgrade before the upgrade can proceed fully. Hopes it helps.
Hassle-free upgrade on my Asus ROG G752 daily driver laptop. Many thanks for all your work!
I have LM 22.2 Zara installed, the LMDE 7 mintupgrade tool check gives the following message: your version of Linuxmint is ‘Zara’. Only Linux mint ‘Virginia’ can be upgraded to Linuxmint 22 ‘Wilma’
How can I upgrade to LMDE 7?
I have lmde fully functioning on two machines. (hp Prodisk and Thinkpad)
Trying to upgrade i meet this problem on both:
sudo mintupgrade
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Scusate sono un novizio.
Ho Linux Mint 22.2. Cinnamon, ver. 6.4.8
Kernel Linux 6.14.0-35-generic.
Non riesco ad aggiornare, Mi dice che non posso aggiornare questa versione, ovvero:
“La tua versione di Linux Mint è Zara, solo la versione Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia può essere aggionata alla versione Linux Mint 22 Wilma”
Ora , cosa dovrei fare?
Grazie
Is there a way to bypass the Timeshift snapshot?
I don’t use Timeshift at all