Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late – and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
A.W. Tozer

Switching (L)ubuntu (focal) to Mint (una)

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Some Lubuntu users may wish to switch their systems to Linux Mint. Tutorials on doing this are outdated and/or don’t provide details on doing this while preserving the existing system. This is how I’ve done it, with great results every time…

create/revise /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list with these lines:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com una main upstream import backport
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner

comment out active entries in /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo apt-get update

this will give an error. Take the PUBKEY number and use it instead of the last argument in this command:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com A6616109451BBBF2

now do this again…

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

this updates /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net to a Mint name via base-files package

Install these:

mint-meta-core
mint-meta-codecs
mint-meta-cinnamon

check what it installs. Get these if not included already:

    mintmenu
    mintlocale
    lightdm
    # if prompted, switch to lightdm instead of other display managers
    chromium

    mint-info-cinnamon
    # if you get an error during install...
    # may need to download the mint-info-cinnamon (all) .deb from https://packages.linuxmint.com
    # and install using 
    sudo dpkg -i --force-all mint-info-cinnamon_2021.11.18_all.deb
    # due to a conflict with mint-info-xfce

reboot

To get APT completely ready for future upgrades, create the file:  /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref

…and enter the following content in it, then save:

Package: *
Pin: origin live.linuxmint.com
Pin-Priority: 750

Package: *
Pin: release o=linuxmint,c=upstream
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-linuxmint-daily-build-team-daily-builds
Pin-Priority: 700

Then proceed to upgrade “una” to “vanessa” if you want (Instructions on how to upgrade arrived in August 2022).