IIRC, when I upgraded from 22 to 22.1, XPlayer, which I rather liked, disappeared from the repos (I’ve gotten used to using Celluloid at this point, but I’m getting old and don’t deal well with changes). I should probably know this by now as a Mint user, but where can I see what’s available when I upgrade so I know if I’m going to lose anything?
It seems that xplayer was abandoned after the last release in 2022. It is not present in the LM 22 repos. Maybe you still have a version installed from LM21?
I would expect the change in the default app to be mentioned in the release notes, but I can’t find anything on the removal of the package in LM22: https://linuxmint.com/rel_wilma.php
I was actually wondering what else they might have removed from the repos (if anything) so I can find a replacement for it first, thanks tho 👍
Yes, that makes sense. Unfortunately, as far as I know, Mint doesn’t provide a list of obsolete or deprecated packages. Even the upstream Ubuntu release notes (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-release-notes/39890 for 24.04 / LM 22) don’t list removed packages.
What you can do after the upgrade is query for obsolete packages on your system using
apt list ?obsolete. It’s generally recommended to remove those.