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Linux Mint 22 upgrade with Pipewire already installed (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed Pipewire a while ago to fix some audio problems. Now it's time for the 22 upgrade. Can I just run the upgrade or will the existing Pipewire installation cause problems? Has anyone done that already?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The way upgrades work on the entire Debian family is essentially, update the repos to the new release and then just install all the updates. So it's basically as if you just apt installed all packages to a newer version.

Absolute worst case it would uninstall PipeWire and reinstall PulseAudio, but more likely it would refuse to proceed due to unsolvable dependencies. If the new Mint switched to PipeWire by default, it won't do anything more than possibly updating PipeWire if there's a newer version.

Upgrades really aren't that special, it's just installing newer versions of packages, updating configs and bringing new recommended packages, removing ones that are no longer needed.