It's possible to migrate from LInux Mint Rosa to LMDE without pain?

[Vanderdecken]

Hi all.

I have been searching in this froum and I am not able to find the answer to that question, so could anybody help me?

TIA

[Moem]

I'm not sure whether you consider a new installation to be painful, but in any case: that's how it's done.

[killer de bug]

Yep what Moem said:
You have to reinstall. YOu can't just replace the sources.list file and upgrade. The bases are not compatible. One is Debian, the other is Ubuntu.

[deleted]

...mainly because you would be "downgrading".
Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing and Debian Unstable (SID) with Ubuntu fixes interspersed.
LMDE Is Debian Stable.
-H

[killer de bug]

Maybe but not sure. This would need a crosscheck. But Jessie was frozen 1 year after Ubuntu 14.04. Therefore they may well have some common packages and Jessie may have some newer versions also.

[Schultz]

Don't forget to backup your important files if you decided to install LMDE. Losing them would be pretty painful.

[Fred Barclay]

Maybe but not sure. This would need a crosscheck. But Jessie was frozen 1 year after Ubuntu 14.04. Therefore they may well have some common packages and Jessie may have some newer versions also.

Yep - I've run across several packages (can't remember which ones off the top of my head) in which LMDE 2 has newer version than Mint 17.x.

[killer de bug]

IIRC GTK is one of them.