Comments on How To Upgrade From Linux Mint 13 (Maya) To 14 (Nadia) With apt

I ran this update on my Asus 904HA Netbook (hackbox) which had LM13 Maya / Mate. It's old but loves Mint, The update took about an hour and a half. There where a few instances where the update paused and wanted me to authorize the update of a few files. I used Hardinfo to verify that the system showed LM14 Nadia.

Specs:

N270 Atom 1.60 GHz
2 GB of Ram (came with 1GB) - Maxed unfortunately
250 GB Samsung HD (came with 120GB)
and one nifty aftermarket hand stand extended life battery (nice to hold the netbook when wardriving)

- Note: I strayed from the instructions a tad I did an alt+f2 gksu pluma instead of gedit to edit the  /etc/apt/sources.list file. ?

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 Replace:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

with:

sudo pluma /etc/apt/sources.list

(Pluma replaced gedit in Mint.  If you still have gedit, it will update the file fine.)

And then save the new file? (Remember, you're writing for newbies.

A lot of users of Maya installed it because they want extended support precisely without updating the OS every few months, either as described here or by completely fresh install.  I read good things about the Cinnamon upgrade to v1.6 in Mint 14 - that may be the main or only reason to be interested in it - but don't find Cinnamon 1.6 in the Mint 13 repositories.  I'd suggest that when Mint thinks a desktop environment or software package is good enough for release in a new version that it should update the repositories for its active LTS versions a.s.a.p.  That's what I would call "long term support" in practice not theory.

Cinnamon 1.6 is now in the backport repository of Maya, and before that in the romeo (unstable) repo. So no one needs to upgrade just for Cinnamon.

It sounds simple like this and I decided (before reading about it here) to give it a go.

First off, since it might seriously break your system, it is wise to make a back-up of your data (all your data, your home directory and more). Any serious system-upgrade should start with that advice: Backup now!

Second: disable all PPA's you may be using. They will need to be upgraded as well, but that's for later. I suggest you install Y PPA manager to use it to update the release name (precise -> quantal), unless you want to do it by hand

Then, as from my experience, it takes a couple more sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade commands to complete the system upgrade. There will be errors, held-back packages etc. But it can and will be done in the end.

Now, update the repositories (PPA's) and see which ones are available for your new release. The ones  the Y PPA doesn't update may (or may not) be up to date.

Finish the upgrade process by re-enabling the PPA's and update again.

Good luck!

   I got through the

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

step and went to reboot, and got a black screen.  Make sure you have backed up your data!

I'm going to download Mint and reinstall that way to see if I can recover anything.  (Most of my data is on a separate partition, but the stuff on my Desktop will be missed!)

Spook

plz help, after upgrading to nadia why i can't connect to internet.. in the network manager it say establish connection (LAN connection). thanx..

This fixes the internet issues,just run the reconfig.http://askubuntu.com/questions/225129/ubuntu-12-04-no-internet-connection

 Go to Network (Click on Administration/Network. Unlock by clicking on 'Click to make changes', using your admin password.

 Click on wired connection, properties.

Uncheck roaming mode, set configuration to Automatic (DHCP).

Reboot. 

 This worked for me.

Go to terminal and:

dns-fix

or

sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf

or create file: resolv.conf with something like this:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 192.168.1.1

save, reboot and done :)

When I installed Mint 13 from the .iso, I did a limited install. (Don't need python, and a million libraries, etc.) When I do the update as here, I notice that apt-get seems to get everything. I'm not smart enough to know if it's going to install all the bloat. If it's indiscriminate, is there a way to make it discriminate?

This is the easiest upgrade I have ever done. Only downside was waiting for the packages to download. When logging in, two very minor issues: touchpad didn't select and some icons on the top bar moved around. Other than that perfect upgrade.

 Upside of the upgrade is this version of Linux is noticably faster than Mint 13 and I am now running a 3.5 kernel! Awesome! 

Thank you. I'm updating it right now! I hope it goes well. :-)

HI, 

 I followed the steps above, but I'm getting a black screen either I choose Cinnamon or Gnome session, I didn't want to reinstall Mint all over again :/

Any suggestions?

I just successfully installed Maya on my D600 from CD, installed fake-pae, then upgraded to Nadia as instructed above.  The weird thing was that it took over 12 hours not counting stops for config-file replacement prompts.  It also installed a slew of new packages.

 I'm not going to attempt Olivia until it's officially released.

Thanks for figuring this all out.