@gjacobse said in Linux Mint and Google Drive:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Mint and Google Drive:

Have not. How do you want it to behave? I don't use Google Drive so not sure what it can do.

The project seems to have the ability to CLI sync but not auto sync. but in process.

Cron every minute? Not realtime, but nearly as good

That's my guess, that a package is missing.

@aaronstuder said in Linux Mint 18 Beta Has Released:

@scottalanmiller said:

limited to 4GB of RAM

Ouch.....

Yeah I know. It was a "lot" of memory for early 2012. Today it is terribly anaemic.

I think that the YUM repo adding system is even easier than the PPAs.

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

I think the Ubuntu store ruined it for me. It used to take forever to load so I always just did cli, maybe I need to try the Fedora store and see how it works.

On Mint you just click on the DEB, there is no store involved.

Ah ok. Ya Ubuntu used to load the full store (not sure if it still does) to install something. So I just started doing gdebi or dpkg -i or dnf install ./package for everything I downloaded.

I have my menu key on my keyboard mapped to the drop down terminal Gnome 3 extension because I don't use that key anyway. So opening the terminal and running it is pretty quick.

I'll have to see how Fedora handles that.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

Edit: I've always done my Ubuntu upgrades using dist-upgrade.

Ubuntu doesn't upgrade like that either, or didn't in the past. You still have to change the sources for dist-upgrade to move up to the next one. People on Ubuntu 14.04.3 still use dist-upgrade to upgrade their daily or weekly patches and it doesn't move them to current releases. It takes other changes, like the sed lines here, to make Ubuntu do that.

If that is the case, what is the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade?

Edit: I just checked and the command I've been using is do-release-upgrade... not apt-get dist-upgrade...

Yes, Ubuntu has an extra command that includes the sed stuff specifically for Ubuntu. In Mint, the base is remaining the same Ubuntu now so that command can't be used. They'd have to make their own, which they need to.

dist-upgrade includes things like the kernel that upgrade does not. There is a really old thread about it around here somewhere where I had the same questions and @thanksajdotcom was explaining to me why I needed to switch me standard patching to dist-upgrade because important patches would be missed otherwise.

Have you used Cinnamon? It is seriously slick. I have never used any desktop on any environment that is a nice.

Maybe your package repo is out of date, I tried this just now on my Mint desktop and it worked fine... but the direct links that you show do not exist.

Try this then try the ppa add command again...

sudo apt-get update

yeah I'm going more with JB on this one - I think if you asked the general public about Bit torrent, assuming they even know what it was, they would say it was for piracy more than anything else.

Just an FYI... These instructions also still work on Mint 18 as well.

@Reid-Cooper said:

Did you order anything yet?

Not as of yet. Still waiting for a real need....

Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela

Thanks @coliver. Not the answer I was looking for, however not surprising.

Very well.. Not a deal ending issue.