{"id":3635,"date":"2018-08-31T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T14:33:30","slug":"how-to-upgrade-to-lmde-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"How to upgrade to LMDE 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting for this I&#8217;d like to thank you for your patience.<\/p>\n<p>It is now possible to upgrade the Cinnamon edition of LMDE 2 to version 3.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade instructions are available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/tutorial\/view\/2419\">https:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/tutorial\/view\/2419<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Take your time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read all the instructions and take the time to understand them, ask for help if you&#8217;re stuck.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions will ask you to make backups and to prepare system snapshots. Don&#8217;t rush into upgrading and do not take shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t panic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re stuck or wondering about something don&#8217;t hesitate to ask for help:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can post here in the comments section.<\/li>\n<li>You can ask for help in the forums.<\/li>\n<li>You can connect to the IRC (from within Linux Mint, launch Menu-&gt;Internet-&gt;Hexchat). If you&#8217;re new to IRC, please read <a href=\"https:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/tutorial\/view\/12\">this tutorial<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting for this I&#8217;d like to thank you for your patience. It is now possible to upgrade the Cinnamon edition of LMDE 2 to version 3. The upgrade instructions are available at: https:\/\/community.linuxmint.com\/tutorial\/view\/2419 Take your time Read all the instructions and take the time to understand them, ask for help if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","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\/3635","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=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3640,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}