{"id":4312,"date":"2022-04-18T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:51:26","slug":"lmde-upgrade-tool-in-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=4312","title":{"rendered":"LMDE Upgrade Tool in BETA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BETA of the new Upgrade Tool is now available for testing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can be used to upgrade LMDE 4 to LMDE 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To install it refresh your cache and install the mintupgrade package:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>apt update\napt install mintupgrade<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Upgrade Tool is graphical but it is launched from the command line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo mintupgrade<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the instructions on the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/upload\/2022\/04\/mintupgrade-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/upload\/2022\/04\/mintupgrade-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4313\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the tool is done and the upgrade is successful uninstall it and reboot your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>apt remove mintupgrade\nsudo reboot<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use the comment section to seek help or to give us your feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bugs can be reported at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/mintupgrade\/issues\">https:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/mintupgrade\/issues<\/a> (include a screenshot of the window and the output of the terminal in your bug reports).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If anything goes wrong all changes can be reverted using Timeshift.<\/li><li>If you close the tool for any reason, you can run it again no matter how far you went in the upgrade.<\/li><li>This BETA is only available for LMDE. Do not test this tool in Linux Mint 20 (the Linux Mint 21 package base isn&#8217;t stable yet).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BETA of the new Upgrade Tool is now available for testing. It can be used to upgrade LMDE 4 to LMDE 5. To install it refresh your cache and install the mintupgrade package: The Upgrade Tool is graphical but it is launched from the command line: Follow the instructions on the screen. When the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","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\/4312","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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}