As advertised in the official blog of Linux Mint, Update Pack 5 de LMDE it is already available for use, but with some drawbacks.
First of all, if you are using ATI proprietary drivers (fglrx) you better forget this post and dedicate your time to something else, because it is almost certain that you can present serious problems if you update.
In the original entry they offer us some caveats:
- It is not safe to update for now if you are using the proprietary ATI fglrx drivers
- Currently it is safe to update from the following mirror only: debian.linuxmint.com.
- To change the mirror to use, you must also take into account a couple of things, first that they have installed "mint-debian-mirrors" and then, they must open a terminal and put
mint-choose-debian-mirror. - Be sure to read http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/update-pack.html
- If you experience any problems or if you are going through the update at this time, feel free to connect to the IRC chat room (irc.spotchat.org, # linuxmint-debian).
And that's how things are. If all goes well, we may soon have an iso with the Update Pack 5 included.
Uh, just on Saturday I changed LMDE for OpenSuse 12.2 !!
I've never used Kde much, now I'm holding his hand and I like it.
regards
Deluxe!.
Excuse me elav, is it recommended to do this type of update?
Regards!
If it is recommended when you are a LMDE user and you need to have something new .. if everything works for you, take your fingers off the keyboard 😀
Luckily someone has taken the trouble to notify.
I was thinking of replacing Ubuntu with Mint LMDE in case Debian resisted me too much.
I am one of those who have 100% ATI in their equipment except for the processor.
PS: Elav, I am following the steps to the letter in a certain article you wrote about installing KDE in Debian testing, possibly I will send you an MP to ask you some questions if it could be.
Well, as far as I can help you, here I am. Anyway, I always advise to take a tour of the forum, and so any questions you have and may be someone else's, it would be much easier to solve it ..
Well I said goodbye to mint on my laptop and I put lubuntu on it, mint disengage as fast as at first it excites you
LMDE for me is a zombie. It does not contribute what at first it should be. It hardly ever updates, and when you do, you run the risk that it may stop working properly. Update Pack 4 screwed up my graphical environment.
I no longer have it installed.
I'm not convinced by semi-rolling, the last update misconfigured everything, and I reinstalled everything from scratch.
I don't plan to install everything from scratch every 3 or 4 months; That they stop toneries and that they make updates smaller and less time.
Good 😉
Just out of curiosity I will update on a test machine that has been left with LMDE one of these days. Because what is on the laptop and another that had LMDE, I have switched to the Debian Testing repositories, removing everything from Mint and I am happy with Debian.
Always when I update it, it breaks the xorg with the nvidia drivers, I already tried to fix it but what is it, I'll see what another distro I try, because it is not pleasant to download more than a gig of updates to suffer with the same problem every 3-4 months . The truth is that LMDE is not worth it, what saves me at this moment from having the pc operational is that I have debian testing in another partition and it is much better.
Elav, update without thinking (and my girl keeps moving my head slowly to the side and a look that confirms my idiocy) and now everything is complicated. I have problems with Gnome and with KDE. Put together a little post http://htony22.com.ar/?p=138
I'm not an expert on the subject, so the questions are more than basic: can I retract my mistake and go back to where everything was working properly? Thank you in advance, regards
Mmm unfortunately I don't think you can go back in time. I think I have warned in the post that this could have problems, although there is something I do not understand. How do you have to update 1GB of packages? Could you show me your sources.list?
Elav, why does it tell me 'duplicate comment' when I want to send you the sources.list and I can't see it in the comments?
(I thought I had reached the bottom but it seems that I keep digging). Apologies, and thanks for responding.
Hahaha, don't despair friend. Anything you can use the forum or paste to leave the sources.list
Let's see…
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.lth.se/lmde/latest test main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.lth.se/lmde/latest/security testing / updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.lth.se/lmde/latest/multimedia test main non-free
Thank you!!!
http://foro.desdelinux.net/viewtopic.php?pid=8049#p8049
First package:
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import