This is the preferred method of a major upgrade for Linux Mint. If you have a great many third party repositories, it may be better to do a back up, full re-install and a restore of your data. It may take some time for third parties to release new repositories after a major upgrade of Ubuntu or Mint. You can search to see if there is a Sarah based version, or an Ubuntu 16.04 based version of each third party repository. If there are errors or conflicts, keep them commented out (or turned off in software manager). ![]() These third party sources are often tied to the 17.x release of mint, or the 15.04 release of Ubuntu.Īfter your upgrade you can turn them on, one at a time, and see if there are errors or conflicts. It is probably easier to turn off any third party repositories in the /etc/apt/ directory using the software manager. I would also suggest that you comment out any third party repositories that may have been added to the file /etc/apt/sources.list, or added in the directory /etc/apt/
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