can't upgrade Mint 21 to 22; stuck kernel

[fox]

I have a nice installation of Mint 21.3 Cinnamon with an old stat package installed and which is customized to my liking. However, it won't upgrade from mintupgrade. It is stopped by errors related to an old 5.19.0-43 kernel. It stops on the "Remove foreign packages" component, on Skypeforlinux, claiming that package is newer than the one in the repository and offering to downgrade it. I have tried the following but none of it works:
(1) downgrade the Skypeforlinux package
(2) remove the Skypeforlinux package
(3) remove the 5.19 kernel through the mintupdate app (kernels tab)
(4) remove another older kernel (5.15)
(5) remove the most recent kernel (6.

All of these paths lead to errors related to the 5.19 kernel and the cessation of the process, even when I don't try to remove it. I know I can just install the current Mint (I have that on another partition), but I would like to keep an upgraded version of the older one. I'm thinking that maybe I can do this by removing the 5.19 kernel using another Linux partition, but I don't know how to do this. I know I can mount the older Mint partition from either the newer Mint partition on the same drive (an external SSD) or from Ubuntu on my internal SSD, but then what do I do to get rid of the offending kernel and skypeforlinux?

[buster]

Hi Mike.

I'm still on 21.3 Mint,

I'm assuming you've seen this page

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4980

However the upgrade is not offered for me. Maybe after a reboot it'll show.

[buster]

No. After reboot Update Manager shows no hidden abilities to move up to 22, which seems odd. Not very important for me at the moment though.

[buster]

However I can use, apparently,

https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-22.html

[buster]

And one last inquiry: is the hardware Windows or Apple? Not sure why this would affect anything, but your problem does seem odd.

You could also search or post on the Mint Forum.

[fox]

I had to use the second method to get to the Mint upgrade tool. That's what I followed, but it stalled as noted. I haven't tried posting on the Mint Forums yet, but I did Google the problem, got something from the Mint Forums and tried that. It didn't work.