[Cinnamon] Ugrading Linux Mint 21.3 to 22.2 | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

granite olive Nov 28, 2025, 5:54 PM

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So, I've been wanting to upgrade to the latest version of Linux Mint for a while now, mostly because seeing 21.3 only has 1 year left of support makes me nervous, and because I recall 22.1 having some quality of life upgrades in some applications.
I'm asking more on tips and recommendations (aside from making a TimeShift backup which I already made). I have a gazillion applications of all sorts, and I'm not sure what to expect when I upgrade.
I am checking my mint-upgrade-info is stuck at Version 1.2.6 and I might need help with that to begin with everything.

brittle kraken Nov 28, 2025, 8:26 PM

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Official upgrade path is to 22.0 via mintupgrade only then to 22.x but that is just a tiny inconvenience.

The major inconvenience is that the official upgrade tool forces quite strongly removing all custom packages, PPAs, locally installed debs and downgrading anything from newer versions to ubuntu2204/mint21 stock repo versions. For a heavily customised system that is a real PITA. Especially if you also compiled something manually and have it linked dynamically to particular versions of libraries that get removed in the upgrade and you will need to recompile these patched sources again..

There are some command line tweaks that allow bypassing SOME but not all these checks at your own risk.

There is also officially absolutely unsupported upgrade path to completely ignore mintupgrade and do a very manual upgrade the Debian way = rewriting the /etc/apt/ files to new distro and then doing apt update , apt upgrade, apt full-upgrade, and dealing with any sorts of issues in the meantime, fixing broken dependencies via dpkg or other ways , and ending with a Frankenstein distro that may work but will be in an inconsistent state . Been there, done that. Good luck.

granite olive Nov 28, 2025, 9:02 PM

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brittle kraken Official upgrade path is to 22.0 via mintupgrade only then to 22.x but that is j...

So... that means the easiest quickest way is to just do a fresh install?

gaunt copper Nov 28, 2025, 10:55 PM

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yes

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BUT

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what and how many are your custom repositories?

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You can upgrade even with other packages as long as they don't have a version in the official Ubuntu/Mint repository

granite olive Nov 28, 2025, 11:45 PM

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gaunt copper what and how many are your custom repositories?

I am not sure how to answer this

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Things I have installed outside the official repositories that I can remember right now are: Ardour8, Wine, DroidCam, Clementine, Lutris, ClamAV

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there are probably plenty more that I just cannot name right now

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I think I made up my mind to install Mint 22.2 freshly, I am currently deciding whether I should buy an NVMe and install it there, or buy an HDD for mass file storage and reinstall Mint in this same SSD

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I'm aiming more at the second option honestly

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currently looking at a WD Purple WD20PURX 2TB

gaunt copper Nov 29, 2025, 6:54 PM

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Either you install packages from thrid party repos that are not in the official repositories, or use flatpaks

gaunt copper Nov 29, 2025, 8:11 PM

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honestly, just try the upgrade if you have a snapshot

granite olive Nov 29, 2025, 8:13 PM

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thing is it isn't available still

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my mint-upgrade-info is out of date and won't let me update it

gaunt copper Nov 29, 2025, 8:14 PM

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sudo apt install mintupgrade
sudo mintupgrade

granite olive Nov 29, 2025, 8:16 PM

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I am currently on Windows, I will work on something and I will switch to Linux in a bit

gaunt copper Nov 29, 2025, 8:16 PM

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ok

granite olive Dec 2, 2025, 10:21 PM

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Okay I'm finally on Linux now

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I will check I'm up to date, make a TimeShift and proceed to try upgrading the system

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okay, the tool is beggining to check if the upgrade is possible, I am nervous

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while it's at it I gotta ask...
We said before that upgrading normally can break applications, dependencies and such. I recently compiled Ardour in my system, what should I do in such a case? Remove it then recompile it from scratch?

granite olive Dec 3, 2025, 2:56 AM

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Forgot to update, I'm currently running Linux Mint 22 update worked, I will boot up the Mintupgrade tool and see if I can go up to 22.2

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at least I'm running LM22 according to /etc/os-release

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not working

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I think I will just do a fresh install

granite olive Dec 3, 2025, 3:38 AM

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woah it just prompted me with the "update to 22.2 available"

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I was preparing to do the fresh install but might as well try the upgrade since it lets me now

gaunt copper Dec 3, 2025, 9:15 AM

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you need to upgrade form the update manager

granite olive Dec 3, 2025, 11:49 PM

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I'm already at 22.2, everything seems to be working as it should

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problem is, I don't know how to uninstall the Ardour I compiled myself

gaunt copper Dec 4, 2025, 11:47 AM

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is it not there

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?

granite olive Dec 5, 2025, 11:44 PM

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It is there yes, just that honestly it's the first time I ever compiled something and thus I don't really know what to do with those things

gaunt copper Dec 6, 2025, 11:07 AM

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Compiling is not recommended, since it makes it hard to manage the packages

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Always, always use .debs (either from official repositories or files) or flatpaks

granite olive Dec 11, 2025, 3:24 PM

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I mean it's just ardour that I compiled, but I still don't know how to uninstall compiled applications

gaunt copper Dec 11, 2025, 3:59 PM

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it depends on whether or not the dev added an uninstall rule to the makefile

granite olive Dec 12, 2025, 1:12 PM

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gaunt copper it depends on whether or not the dev added an uninstall rule to the makefile

does this count?

granite olive Dec 12, 2025, 1:32 PM

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wait

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I just checked and Ardour still works fine

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I do not need to uninstall

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I thought it was broken

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everything has seemed to run fine so far, aside from already-existing problems (games run extremely poorly via Steam, but that deserves a whole different thread for itself)

#[Cinnamon] Ugrading Linux Mint 21.3 to 22.2