Michael, I don't know how to fix the current problem but I can help you from getting into these situations in the future. Backup Backup Backup Before you start making changes to your OS, you need to make a bare metal backup. The easiest way to accomplish this is to clone the OS drive. After you clone, then if you screw up the Os you can just do a reverse clone and you are back to where you started. Also you need to stop doing open heart surgery, for an ingrown toenail. If you're having issues with darktable, post a question about the problem, upgrading the OS seems like overkill. I've mentioned this before, you should look at running your system in a virtual machine. Then before making changes to the system you can take a snapshot, make the changes and then test them. If things go wrong, you just reboot to the previous snapshot, if all is fine after a week, you can delete the old snapshot. You could also clone the virtual system and do testing in the clone before updating the original. Backup Backup Backup If you had a bare metal backup, you'd be up and running already. Hope this helps for the future. On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 8:22 PM Michael wrote: > I forgot to mention that when I load 18.2/18.3 the cdrom icon shows the > disk I have in and the install icon is also visible. > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Michael wrote: > >> well, I just realized, of course they are not going to be available.... I >> haven't installed them on the new os. now I just meed to load into the os >> instead of the live os >> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Michael wrote: >> >>> okay..... if I load the livecd and then load from local disk I can load >>> my home directory but not with everything. For instance kmymoney is not >>> available, darktable is not available, Chrome is not available, and others >>> as well. >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Michael wrote: >>> >>>> I have no idea what I did wrong...... >>>> first..... darktable was messing up so I decided to upgrade Mint to the >>>> newest version to see if that would fix it. >>>> I put the disk in and installed it but upon restarting the live disk >>>> loaded again. Then I tried installing it again but it would load the OS >>>> from the live disk (I guess) but then when the gui started it would access >>>> the hard disk drive. I then tried putting a previous version on and this >>>> time it installed (instead of failing) but when I restart the computer it >>>> loaded the live disk (which was not in the computer at the time. What in >>>> the world did I do? >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss