# HG changeset patch # User Dirk Olmes # Date 1451474615 -3600 # Node ID 7ad57342534a4b1803cbfc9c7bb2c03dbd05f573 # Parent 82ccd2b150af957bca63b77f4407f919b5b94e58 add a blog post about Linux Mint diff -r 82ccd2b150af -r 7ad57342534a content/Linux/mint-update-rosa.md --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/content/Linux/mint-update-rosa.md Wed Dec 30 12:23:35 2015 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Title: Linux Mint update from 17.2 to 17.3 +Date: 2015-12-30 +Lang: en + +At work we use Linux Mint for some virtual machines that need a desktop environment. Recently, the Linux Mint project released a fairly major update to 17.3. At fist, they did not offer an update for an existing system but promised to release that laster. + +Now, a good while after the official release publication, I was trying to find info on how to do this "in place" update. I scanned their [home page](http://linuxmint.com/) to no avail. The PDF documentation did not provide any info either. Only after googling around I found [a blog post](http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2955) explaining the update progress. I performed the update and everything went very smooth. + + +Too bad that the project does not put that important bit of info in a more prominent place ...