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Linux Mint Distro Upgrade

To upgrade your Linux Mint distribution from the commandline, perform the following steps. In this case, we’ll be upgrading 17.1 (Rebecca) to 17.2 (Rafaela):

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sudo cp -v /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list.bak
sudo sed -i 's/rebecca/rafaela/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade