{"id":861,"date":"2009-05-30T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2009-05-30T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:55:57","slug":"how-to-upgrade-mint-6-felicia-to-mint-7-gloria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"How to upgrade Mint 6 Felicia to Mint 7 Gloria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Warnings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This upgrade path is for the Main Edition only, from a Mint 6 Felicia to a Mint 7 Gloria system.<\/li>\n<li>There is no guarantee that it will work for you. In fact this is quite a risky process. If you&#8217;re experienced and if you know how to troubleshoot and solve common Linux problems (in particular X11, kernel modules and APT problems) then you&#8217;re probably OK. If you&#8217;re a novice user we recommend you perform a fresh installation of Linux Mint 7 instead.<\/li>\n<li>You should make backups of all your data before upgrading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Upgrading graphically (easier):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open a terminal and type the following commands: &#8220;apt update&#8221; and &#8220;apt install mintupgrader-felicia-main&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Open mintMenu and run &#8220;Menu-&gt;Administration-&gt;Upgrade to Linux Mint 7&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Follow the instructions. Choose the default options. Ignore errors (in particular GPG and gtk2-engines-aurora errors).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Upgrading from the command line (faster, safer): <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open a terminal and type the following commands:<\/p>\n<div id=\":n7\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>gksu gedit \/etc\/apt\/sources.list (<em>Change<\/em><em> all occurrences of &#8220;felicia&#8221; to &#8220;gloria&#8221;,<\/em><em> and all occurences of &#8220;intrepid&#8221; to &#8220;jaunty&#8221; then s<\/em><em>ave the file and close the editor)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>apt update<\/li>\n<li>apt remove mintassistant<\/li>\n<li>apt install linuxmint-keyring<\/li>\n<li>apt update<\/li>\n<li>apt install mint-info-main (<em>choose &#8220;Y&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8221; to install the package maintainer&#8217;s version<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>apt install mint-meta-main(<em>choose &#8220;Y&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8221; to install the package maintainer&#8217;s version)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the terminal, repeat the following commands until both show no upgrades available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>apt upgrade<\/li>\n<li>apt dist-upgrade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then type the following commands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>apt install mint-meta-main<\/li>\n<li>sudo rm -rf \/boot\/gfxmenu\/default.message<\/li>\n<li>sudo ln -s \/boot\/gfxmenu\/linuxmint.message \/boot\/gfxmenu\/default.message<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, open &#8220;Login Window&#8221; from the menu, click on the &#8220;Local&#8221; tab and choose the Arc-Wise theme. (If after rebooting you get an error about the theme at the login prompt, repeat this step.)<\/p>\n<p>To get GDM to play the default Linux Mint sound, open &#8220;Login Window&#8221;, click on the &#8220;Accessibility&#8221; tab, and set the sound for &#8220;Login screen ready&#8221; to &#8220;\/usr\/share\/sounds\/linuxmint-gdm.wav&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warnings: This upgrade path is for the Main Edition only, from a Mint 6 Felicia to a Mint 7 Gloria system. There is no guarantee that it will work for you. In fact this is quite a risky process. 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