Comments on: How to upgrade to Linux Mint 18.2

By: FragmentalStew

FragmentalStew — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:35:16 +0000

I’ll try upgrading from 18 to 18.1 to 18.2, but if this is always necessary it should be outlined in the blog post. If this shouldn’t be necessary, then what’s happening?

By: FragmentalStew

FragmentalStew — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:53:37 +0000

I’m on 18, and I am given the option to upgrade to 18.1, but not 18.2.

By: Igor

Igor — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:53:55 +0000

Greetings from Australia !

Here’s what I’m running:
4.4.0-87-generic #110-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 18 12:55:35 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Mint 18.2 KDE edition.

The good: Upgraded Mint KDE from “Serena” to “Sonya” without a single glitch. Lovely !

The bad: Now every day my system freezes up at random some time after boot. KDE loads up well, desktops et al, and then within a couple of minutes — boom, USB mouse stops responding, both USB and serial keyboards stop responding, so rebooting froma console is out of the question. After hitting the Reset button on my PC box, everything loads up happily (the only complaint being some orphaned inodes) and works without a glitch.

The ugly: Neither “Sarah” nor “Serena” misbehaved like this. I installed the latest (availabe in “Drivers”) NVidia driver, was keeping my fingers crossed — still the same problem. I’m hoping I at least won’t corrupt my file system ? My /home is on a separate partition, the root partition has 42 Gb free space.

Could anybody please help ? Any suggestion would be extremely welcome ! Should I try to install a new kernel ? Or experiment with the nouveau video drivers ?

By: Hannu

Hannu — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:29:08 +0000

Thanks guys, I’m happy to leave windows for good!.

By: Peter E

Peter E — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:42:59 +0000

@Hubert #313
I have a Brother, different model, the Brother website has the packages and drivers you need, and pretty good instructions. I print with USB and Wifi, but only Scan with USB.

By: kyle

kyle — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:38:31 +0000

Clem,

Will my beta 18.2 auto update or do I have to do something special? The beta is running flawlessly with kernal 4.12.3 as well

Please thank the team for a great job.

Sincerely,

Kyle

By: Dario

Dario — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:16:03 +0000

For the missing desktop I changed /etc/xdg/autostart/nemo-autostart.desktop to reflect https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/blob/master/data/nemo-autostart.desktop.in. It works for me but I’m not sure if it’s the best thing to do or if it will survive to future updates.

By: Marty Fender

Marty Fender — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:23:58 +0000

See above comment: Also how much free space on the stick if the update will work?

By: Marty Fender

Marty Fender — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:22:04 +0000

A few week ago I use Universal Usb Installer to create a casper-rw persistent usb stick formatted ntfs, with Linux Mint Mate 18.1.
Can I update this to 18.2 through the update manager and will it also update the iso file on the stick, or do I need to format and start over?
Thanks

By: Prof. Gouri S. Shinde

Prof. Gouri S. Shinde — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 05:16:55 +0000

Respected Sir,
I have been using Linux for about 3 years. now we upgrade our computer lab to 18.2 Sonya. its great experience to work with Linux Mint. Thank u.