raymac46 Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 I have just completed the in place upgrade to Mint 22 on my main Linux desktop (home built in 2013.) This was a massive upgrade of close to 3000 packages since you basically have to upgrade both Ubuntu and Mint at the same time. Everything appears to have worked OK. It takes close to an hour, even with an SSD and a quad core CPU. This system runs the Cinnamon desktop. I have to perform a similar upgrade on a laptop runing Xfce. But that is for another day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted July 28 Author Share Posted July 28 The upgrade did mess up my wine configuration so the Amazon Music player I use did not work. I had to reinstall wine and the player but everything works now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 Sounds like a minor hiccup. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted July 29 Author Share Posted July 29 I have now completed the Mint 22 Xfce upgrade on my junk HP Broadwell laptop. It was a simpler installation than the desktop and went very well. These Mint upgrades have to be run in the terminal to avoid glitches with graphical interfaces, but they do everything including removal of orphaned packages. ray@ray-HP-Pavilion-Notebook:~$ inxi -Fxz System: Kernel: 6.8.0-39-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.0 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 8092 v: 89.33 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.82 date: 08/18/2016 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 27.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 27.0/27.0 Wh (100.0%) volts: 16.7 min: 14.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: charging CPU: Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 833 high: 940 min/max: 500/2700 cores: 1: 798 2: 799 3: 798 4: 940 bogomips: 17558 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-8 bus-ID: 00:02.0 Device-2: Chicony HP Truevision HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB bus-ID: 1-3:3 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms: active: x11,surfaceless,device inactive: gbm,wayland API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) Audio: Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-39-generic status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active Network: Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.0 IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-7:4 Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> Drives: Local Storage: total: 894.25 GiB used: 118.79 GiB (13.3%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Patriot model: Burst Elite 960GB size: 894.25 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 878.62 GiB used: 118.79 GiB (13.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A Info: Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.68 GiB used: 1.48 GiB (19.3%) Processes: 245 Uptime: 4m Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Packages: 2452 Compilers: gcc: 13.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.34 ray@ray-HP-Pavilion-Notebook:~$ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted August 7 Author Share Posted August 7 Completed my third upgrade of Linux Mint today on an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop system that I gave to my youngest granddaughter to do schoolwork at home. I am confident that the upgrade process should work without a hitch if you don't want to do a fresh install. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 8 hours ago, raymac46 said: Completed my third upgrade of Linux Mint today on an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop system that I gave to my youngest granddaughter to do schoolwork at home. I am confident that the upgrade process should work without a hitch if you don't want to do a fresh install. Well some systems have a problem with Sandy Bridge and sound. Now you can fix it but it doesn't always work out of the box or at least on the last couple of arch installs I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted August 7 Author Share Posted August 7 Had no sound problems in this case. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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