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I want to upgrade (Mint 21.3 => 22). Last upgrade took hours and the result was so bad I had to reinstall Mint from scratch. Do you guys use the upgrade tool, or do you have good advice on how to approach this?
I don't use Mint, but I would guess that you could change your repos in
/etc/apt/sources.list, runsudo apt update, and thensudo apt full-upgrade. Just make sure the full upgrade isn't doing really dumb stuff like deleting a bunch of programs.I could be completely wrong and this could be terrible advice, but this has become the wisdom for me when I use Debian Testing. Of course, I just did straight
sudo apt updateafter Bookworm was released and the upgrade to Trixie went mostly fine. I have never upgraded between stable versions, so I may not be one to say.