Re: Is there a way to upgrade without losing data? You’ll have to download the packages, but you will get everything back except packages you’ve installed manually, bypassing Synaptic/apt-get/aptitude. Those you’ll have to get again manually.

Can I install Linux Mint without losing data?

With just one Linux Mint partition, the root partition /, the only way of making sure you will not lose your data when re-installing from scratch is by backing up all your data first and restoring them once the installation has finished successfully.

Does Linux Mint update automatically?

This tutorial explains you how to enable the installation of software package updates automatically in the Ubuntu-based editions of Linux Mint. This is the package used to install the updated packages automatically. To configure the unattended-upgrades edit the /etc/apt/apt. conf.