In theory, since both are Debian based systems using dpkg and apt, you could add the mint repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list and then run: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade and all of your installed packages would be upgraded to the newest version provided by Mint. In practice, you'd likely end up with a mix of packages sourced from both, even if you also removed the Coconut repositories since the Mint version of a package would only be installed if it's version number parses as higher to apt... but worse, you might run into conflicts where a package sourced from Coconut depends on one version of a Library and a Package from Mint depends on a different version of the same library, you can't have both versions of the library installed at the same time, and you end up with a tangled mess that in order to upgrade some packages you must downgrade or remove other packages or swap a package that was installed as a dependency for an alternative package that meets the same dependency... Granted, such problems can come up when upgrading from one release to another of the same distro, especially if there's an intermediate release(say, trying to go from Ubuntu 20.10 directly to 21.10 instead of upgrading to 21.04 first), or even within the same release of a distro if the release gets frequent upgrades to individual packages and you go a long time without upgrading, but competent package maintenance can keep this to a minimum as long as you stick to one distro... As such, it's generally recommended that one does a clean install if they want to switch distros, even for distros that are very closely related. That said, if you have a separate /home partition, you might be able to migrate user setting simply by leaving the /home partition alone and creating a user with the same username as the old distro, and while it won't give you afull list of installed packages(which might not be all that useful, since some will be libraries that might not exist in the distro you're switching to, if you install the deborphan package and run deborphan -a It'll give you a list of installed packages that aren't depended on by other packages. They'll be prefixed with their section and one per line, but strip away the former and put them all on one line, and you've got the argument list to feed to apt-get install on the new distro to restore most of your installed software. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list