How to upgrade to Celena
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Can you upgrade to Celena?
You can upgrade to Linux Mint 3.1 Celena if you're currently running one of these three releases:
● Linux Mint 3.0 Cassandra ● Linux Mint 3.1 Celena BETA 017 ● Linux Mint 3.1 Celena BETA 021
Should you upgrade or install from the CD?
We strongly recommend freshinstalls (downloading the CD and installing from it). A freshinstall gives you a complete Linux Mint system with all its default settings and artwork and in a state that we have successfully tested. By performing an upgrade you only update important pieces of the system and your own settings are preserved (this means for instance that you don't necessarily get the new artwork). Of course with a freshinstall you loose all your installed applications and system settings and you may not want to go through that again. For this reason we're publishing this howto. Remember though, this is a best effort, only recommended to people who are experienced with APT and who are not afraid to use the command line.
As with a freshinstall we recommend you backup your data before you proceed with the upgrade. Note: If you're using a proprietary nVidia or ATI driver you may experience problems while upgrading xorg and the linux kernel. Unless you know what you're doing we strongly recommend you do a fresh install.
Good luck and enjoy Celena.
How to upgrade from Cassandra?
Edit your sources.list
To edit the sources.list file, open a terminal and type:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Find the following line:
deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository cassandra/
and replace it with:
deb http://www.linuxmint.com/repository celena/
We also recommend you comment out all source repositories (to gain speed) and “proposed” and “backports” repositories (to gain stability). To comment out a line, prefix it with “#”. Once you're done editing the file, close the editor and type the following in the terminal: sudo apt-get update
Install new software
Open a terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-get install aptoncd command-not-found cups-pdf dpkg-dev
Upgrade packages to the latest version
Open a terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-get install firefox mintupload mintassistant mintinstall mintmenu mintwifi mintdisk
Remove some packages and cleanup
Note: If you use Beagle or the Update Manager skip this chapter.
Open a terminal and type the following:
sudo apt-get remove --purge update-notifier update-manager update-manager-core beagle
Upgrade pidgin
Open a terminal and type the following:
apt-get remove pidgin
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get install pidgin*
Upgrade envy
Note: Skip this chapter if you don't have an nVidia or ATI card.
Open a terminal and type the following:
sudo aptitude purge envy
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/envy
sudo apt-get clean
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/upload/envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
rm envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
Set up mintupload
Open a terminal and type:
nautilus-actions-config
Click the Add button and put the following info:
● Label: Upload ● Tooltip: Upload a file to the Internet ● Icon: choose "Ascending" in the dropdown.. ● Path: enter "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpload/mintUpload.py" ● Parameters: enter "%d/%f"
Set up Print to PDF
Open a terminal and type:
sudo gedit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
Find the following line:
Out ${HOME}/PDF
And replace it with:
Out ${HOME}/Documents
Then type:
sudo gedit /etc/cups/printers.conf
And add the following entry:
<Printer Print_to_PDF>
Info Print to a PDF File
Location In your Documents folder
DeviceURI cupspdf:/
State Idle
StateTime 1187302550
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy retryjob
</Printer>
Add APT
Open a terminal and type:
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/upload/apt
sudo mv apt /usr/bin/
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/bin/apt
How to upgrade from Celena BETA 017
Downgrade Firefox
Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get update
cd
mkdir firefox_downgrade
cd firefox_downgrade
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/repository/celena/firefox-gnome-support_2.0.06-mint1_i386.deb
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/repository/celena/firefox_2.0.06-mint1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ..
rm -rf firefox_downgrade
Upgrade packages
Open a terminal and type:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mintassistant mintinstall hal-device-manager ndisgtk
Add APT
Open a terminal and type:
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/upload/apt
sudo mv apt /usr/bin/
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/bin/apt
Upgrade envy
Note: Skip this chapter if you don't have an nVidia or ATI card.
Open a terminal and type the following:
sudo aptitude purge envy
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/envy
sudo apt-get clean
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/upload/envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
rm envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
Final tweaks and Clean up
Open a terminal and type:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-about-me.desktop
In the end of the file, append the following line:
NoDisplay=true
Then type:
sudo gedit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
And replace the following line:
SoundOnLoginFile=/usr/share/sounds/pidgin/alert.wav
with:
SoundOnLoginFile=/usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav
Then type the following:
sudo aptitude purge evolution
sudo aptitude purge update-notifier
sudo aptitude purge beagle
sudo rm /etc/xdg/autostart/beagled.desktop
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/upload/screenshot.png
sudo mv screenshot.png /usr/share/gdm/themes/Celena/
gconftool2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command mozilla-thunderbird %s
sudo apt-get clean
How to upgrade from Celena BETA 021
Upgrade envy
Note: Skip this chapter if you don't have an nVidia or ATI card.
Open a terminal and type the following:
sudo aptitude purge envy
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/envy
sudo apt-get clean
wget http://www.linuxmint.com/upload/envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
rm envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu11_all.deb
