Update Pack 3 was released as the “latest” update pack today. If you’re not using Linux Mint Debian, please ignore this post.
In Update Pack 3, two drastic changes occur:
- There’s a brand new kernel 3.0
The Security and Multimedia repositories are now part of the Update Pack itself.
The first thing you need to do is to change your Multimedia and Security repositories. Edit your APT sources by typing the following command:
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gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
- Replace security.debian.org with debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security
Replace debian-multimedia.org with debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia
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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
At the time of writing this blog post, the latest version of mintupdate-debian is 1.0.4. From this version onwards the Update Manager is able to check your APT sources and tell you if they are properly configured.
- Click on the “Update Pack Info” button
Make sure “Your system configuration” shows up as green and doesn’t show any warnings or errors
If you see a warning or an error, follow the instructions given and repeat the process until they’re gone.
EDIT:
There has been a lot of questions concerning errors with the gstreamer packages. Something like
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Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Issue this command
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sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_amd64.deb