Linux mint 17 -Qiana released with Cinnamon or Mate Desktop Environment.

And I was using Min16 to write this article.

And the dist-upgrade is running.

But how to upgrade the linux mint to a newer version.

1 Backup Your Files

This a very important step, although I did not back up my files. Cause I did not have a hardisk or webdrive with enough space.

And back your source like these:

$ sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list  /etc/apt/sources.list.bak
$ sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list.bak

2 Change your source

Just replace petra with qiana and saucy with trusty

3 Upgrade

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

This is all.

And maybe you want to read this post too— Upgrade Linux mint

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