zerozero,
to simulate a new user, I reinstall from fresh with the original release 201101.
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lmde32mu wayne # uname -r
2.6.32-5-686
please amend a bit of your instruction, after changing sources.list, I need to do
sudo apt-get update
else
lmde32mu wayne # sudo apt-get install mintupdate-debian
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mintupdate-debian
as I started fresh, I thought just capture all infor, so that it might be good reference for some.. below is the first apt-get after fresh install.
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lmde32mu wayne # apt-get update
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release.gpg [198 B]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/backport Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/backport Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/import Translation-en
Get:2 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/import Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/romeo Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/romeo Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/upstream Translation-en
Get:3 http://debian.linuxmint.com testing Release.gpg [836 B]
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release [38.4 kB]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/upstream Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release [12.1 kB]
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/main Translation-en
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/non-free Translation-en_US
Get:6 http://debian.linuxmint.com testing Release [134 kB]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main i386 Packages
Get:7 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg [198 B]
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main Translation-en
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import i386 Packages
Get:8 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release [29.1 kB]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/backport i386 Packages
Get:9 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex [2,023 B]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/romeo i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream i386 Packages
Get:10 http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main i386 Packages [14 B]
Get:11 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex [1,057 B]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/backport i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/romeo i386 Packages
Get:12 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main i386 Packages [8,590 B]
Get:13 http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/main i386 Packages [7,142 kB]
Get:14 http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib i386 Packages [14 B]
Get:15 http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free i386 Packages [14 B]
Get:16 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main i386 Packages [69.2 kB]
Get:17 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream i386 Packages [5,208 B]
Get:18 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import i386 Packages [19.3 kB]
Get:19 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/backport i386 Packages [20 B]
Get:20 http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free i386 Packages [5,787 B]
Get:21 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/romeo i386 Packages [20 B]
Get:22 http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/contrib i386 Packages [61.3 kB]
Get:23 http://debian.linuxmint.com testing/non-free i386 Packages [109 kB]
Fetched 7,639 kB in 1min 15s (101 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Next is your last step of installing new mintupdate-debian
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lmde32mu wayne # apt-get install mintupdate-debian
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
mint-meta-codecs
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
mint-meta-codecs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mint-meta-debian mintupdate
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mint-meta-codecs mintupdate-debian
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 934 not upgraded.
Need to get 113 kB of archives.
After this operation, 57.3 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main mint-meta-codecs i386 2011.06.15-1lmde1 [1,454 B]
Get:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main mintupdate-debian all 1.0.2 [112 kB]
Fetched 113 kB in 1s (61.4 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 125965 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mint-meta-debian ...
Removing mintupdate ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Selecting previously deselected package mint-meta-codecs.
(Reading database ... 125919 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mint-meta-codecs (from .../mint-meta-codecs_2011.06.15-1lmde1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mintupdate-debian.
Unpacking mintupdate-debian (from .../mintupdate-debian_1.0.2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up mint-meta-codecs (2011.06.15-1lmde1) ...
Setting up mintupdate-debian (1.0.2) ...
ok, now I have to stop using apt-get and switch to MU.
will take a while..934 recommended updates available (591M)
MU reported: 14 packages will be removed, 202 will be installed.
so just take all and hope for the best..
one more chance: but as new user will not be able to go thru so many lists.
so captured those that will be removed...
just take all to see what happen
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esound-clients will be removed
libcryptui0 will be removed
libdrm-nouveau1 will be removed
libgtkhtml-editor-common will be removed
libgtkhtml-editor0 will be removed
libperl5.10 will be removed
libsdl1.2debian-alsa will be removed
libtar will be removed
ntfsprogs will be removed
openoffice.org-base-core will be removed
openoffice.org-core will be removed
python-gi will be removed
xserver-xorg-video-nv will be removed