{"id":945,"date":"2009-07-06T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2009-07-06T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:06:24","slug":"how-to-upgrade-mint-6-felicia-x64-to-mint-7-gloria-x64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"How to upgrade Mint 6 Felicia x64 to Mint 7 Gloria x64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Warnings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This upgrade path is for the x64 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\u2019re experienced and if you know how to troubleshoot and solve common Linux problems (in particular X11, kernel modules and APT problems) then you\u2019re probably OK. If you\u2019re a novice user we recommend you perform a fresh installation of Linux Mint 7 x64 instead.<\/li>\n<li>You should make backups of all your data before upgrading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Upgrading graphically:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open a terminal and type the following commands: \u201capt update\u201d and \u201capt install mintupgrader-felicia-x64\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Open mintMenu and run \u201cMenu-&gt;Administration-&gt;Upgrade to Linux Mint 7\u2033<\/li>\n<li>Follow the instructions. Choose the default options. Ignore errors (in particular GPG and gtk2-engines-aurora errors).<\/li>\n<li>Once the tool is finished upgrading, reboot the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Eventually, if you noticed errors the first time, run the tool again (it should be faster and if things failed the first time it will resume the upgrade).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Upgrading from the command line: <\/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 \u201cfelicia\u201d to \u201cgloria\u201d,<\/em><em> and all occurences of \u201cintrepid\u201d to \u201cjaunty\u201d 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-x64 (<em>choose \u201cY\u201d or \u201cI\u201d to install the package maintainer\u2019s version<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>apt install mint-meta-x64 (<em>choose \u201cY\u201d or \u201cI\u201d to install the package maintainer\u2019s 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-x64<\/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 \u201cLogin Window\u201d from the menu, click on the \u201cLocal\u201d 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 \u201cLogin Window\u201d, click on the \u201cAccessibility\u201d tab, and set the sound for \u201cLogin screen ready\u201d to \u201c\/usr\/share\/sounds\/linuxmint-gdm.wav\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warnings: This upgrade path is for the x64 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. If you\u2019re experienced and if you know how to troubleshoot and solve common Linux problems (in [&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-945","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\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}