Mint 17 Upgrade

[booman]

Over the weekend I upgraded my Mint 16 to Mint 17!
It worked perfectly, but required a bit of searching to figure out how....
Sadly Mint's website didn't give any clear instruction on how to do an upgrade. Why is that?

After some research I found that all the upgrades for Mint are done the same way:

Preparing for the Upgrade

Launch Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
Type:

sudo sed -i 's/saucy/trusty/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

Press Enter

Type:

sudo sed -i 's/petra/qiana/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

Press Enter

Type:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Press Enter

Now you are ready to start the upgrade

Upgrading to Mint 17

Type:

sudo apt-get upgrade

Press Enter

The Terminal will prompt a 500 MB download
Type "Y"
Press Enter

Apt will start downloading the files and start installing...

Don't walk away just yet, as it begins installing you may be prompted with some options...
Type "Y" to install the package maintainer's version
Press Enter

You will have to do this a dozen times during the installation.
An hour later you should be ready to reboot
Then you will be greeted with Mint 17 before the login.

 

[Daerandin]

So how do you like Mint 17 so far? Any noticeable differences? Hopefully you have not experienced any new issues so far.

 

[booman]

Well, its almost identical to Mint 16. I am having a problem with gvfs and "connect to server" through nemo. I just posted on their forum today. Maybe I'll have to re-install the nemo packages?
Otherwise, I'm finally on Nvidia 331 drivers
The 32-bit libraries I installed in Mint 16 are still there as well. I wasn't sure if I would need to re-install them or not.
I tested a couple of allready-installed games and they run just fine.
So far I'm liking it.
Not sure why I have to manually install pepperflash in Chrome? I never had to previously, but its nice to see that Adobe is still supporting flash in Linux.

 

[Daerandin]

Great that things are working. Actually, pepperflash is not made by Adobe. Pepperflash is Google's own flash implementation, and it only exists for Chrome, no other browsers.

Personally I use Firefox, which means I'm using Adobe's outdated Flash (they only do security updates for Linux).

Great that the upgrade process went smoothly. I have read that it at least used to be common that you had to do a reinstall for new versions since upgrades could be problematic.

 

[booman]

Yeah, I knew pepperflash was Google, thats why I was confused that I had to install flash for Chromium. Normally it would update by its-self. I had to do the same thing with Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. Not sure why?

I will be testing Tomb Raider 2013 tomorrow and will see if Cinnamon can handle it.