{"id":1153,"date":"2009-11-25T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2009-11-25T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:13:44","slug":"how-to-upgrade-linux-mint-8-rc1-to-linux-mint-8-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"How to upgrade Linux Mint 8 RC1 to Linux Mint 8 (stable)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading from the RC1 release is safe and easy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the update manager by clicking on the lock icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen and apply all level 1 and level 2 updates (If no level 1\/2 updates appear that means you&#8217;re already up-to-date).<\/li>\n<li>Right click on mintMenu&#8217;s main button and select &#8220;Preferences&#8221;. In the &#8220;Applications&#8221; tab, change the hover value from 150 to 50 milliseconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep an eye on the Update Manager for future low level updates that might become available. In particular, the mint-translations package will be updated frequently to bring you up-to-date translations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading from the RC1 release is safe and easy: Open the update manager by clicking on the lock icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen and apply all level 1 and level 2 updates (If no level 1\/2 updates appear that means you&#8217;re already up-to-date). Right click on mintMenu&#8217;s main button and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}