Linux Mint Updates

[atomichybrid]

hey guys just a general question about Linux Mint. From what I know, Linux Mint is similar to Ubuntu. So my question would be, if you have Linux Mint 8 Helena, would the updates be the same as the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic updates?(ie Linux Mint getting Ubuntu 9.10 updates, rather than getting it from the Mint servers) I just want to know if its possible or not.

 

[tlarkin]

It looks as if Mint is based on the same libraries and kernel as Ubuntu (debian) so you should be able to update by doing this:

sudo apt-get update

Another way would be to run the update manager, I know there is one of those in Ubuntu.

 

[atomichybrid]

Thank you tlarkin for the response, I also would like to know if Mint will be able to select ftp servers you want to get your updates from? Does it have a similar software that lets you choose your repositories like in Ubuntu (Select Software Sources)?

 

[tlarkin]

I do not use Mint so I am not sure, but since it is based off of Ubuntu, I imagine a lot of package managers work on both distros. What package manager is on Mint, and is there user preferences you can set yourself on there?

 

[atomichybrid]

Not too sure myself, it seems that Mint has no repository selector like Ubuntu. So my guess is that its not possible to get all the updates from Ubuntu. The reason I asked if it was possible was because my ISP has a FTP server for Ubuntu updates and yeah wondered if I can stream the updates from there. But I noticed in Mint that there is a Mint update file and they have the level of importance kinda thing. I'll keep looking into the updates and see what happens.

 

[Jiffyman]

You can check what sources you have and see if Mint has any similarities to Ubuntu. Below are the codes you can execute in the terminal to see the sources.

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

or

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

There will be a list of all the repositories in there.

Here is a ubuntu sources.list. See if anything is remotely the same.

{## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb [URL]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/URL] hoary main restricted
deb-src [URL]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/URL] hoary main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb [URL]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/URL] hoary universe
deb-src [URL]http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/URL] hoary universe

deb [URL]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/URL] hoary-security main restricted
deb-src [URL]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/URL] hoary-security main restricted