As you are probably aware of, installing MintPPC is not always successful. This has to do with the fact that MintPPC is based on Debian sid, which is the unstable version of Debian. Debian stopped releasing stable versions for the powerpc and ppc64 architectures. What we are dealing with nowadays is Debian-ports. What is Debian-ports …
Monthly Archives: June 2020
MintPPC has been updated
To have all the new goodies in an existing MintPPC installation do the following (note: it will overwrite your settings):sudo apt updatesudo apt upgradecp -r /etc/skel/.config ~ Logout and login and enjoy! Extra background pictures can be added by installing mint-backgrounds-tricia. Installing MintPPC from scratch will give the updated MintPPC as well. Updates include the …
Software manager
To get red of the Software Manager icon in the menu, do the following. Update mint-lxde-default-settings to version 12.0.11. sudo apt updatesudo apt upgrade For existing users, you have to copy the .config file in /etc/skel into the user´s home folder. If you do it for yourself, it has to be done like this: cp …
Upcoming updates
Happy Whit Monday! We are in June 2020 and what that means is that the Linux Mint team will release version 20 of its distribution, coded “Ulyana” this month. As soon as it is available I will start working on porting the artistic stuff into MintPPC. It is for this reason I would like to …