# HG changeset patch # User Dirk Olmes # Date 1451735989 -3600 # Node ID f6690e50793c26a65015066ff0f8a25cd8530a83 # Parent c2b99e876559903cbc761ed73aeec65ca69bdec0# Parent 7ad57342534a4b1803cbfc9c7bb2c03dbd05f573 merge with default diff -r c2b99e876559 -r f6690e50793c content/Linux/mint-update-rosa.md --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/content/Linux/mint-update-rosa.md Sat Jan 02 12:59:49 2016 +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 ...