I noticed activity in the packages of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 on the servers of Linux Mint. It means that we are close to a release of Linux Mint “Zena” and an upgrade to LMDE 7. The most important updates are a renewed menu, a “System Reports” tool to help finding problems and recommended …
Category Archives: Installation
Libreoffice
Hi, just a quick heads-up: After fixing a longstanding upstream bug [1], LibreOffice isfinally available on 32-bit PowerPC (powerpc) again. It can be installed with: # apt install libreoffice Feel free to test and report back! Thanks,Adrian [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1122336
Reminder
An update in my MintPPC system upgraded grub. If you do this on your system, don’t forget to repair the boot partition afterwards withfsck.hfs /dev/sda2
LMDE 7 “Gigi” released
LMDE 7, code named Gigi, has been released today by the Linux Mint team. I am ready with LMDE 7 arm64 too. The ISO can be purchased via this website. The procedure to install LMDE 7 arm64 in UTM on Apple Silicon can be seen here.
LMDE 7 Beta release
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 Beta has been released and I am up to date with the changes. When a stable version is released, the arm64 version will follow suit soon thereafter. I will not give away this release for free anymore. Upgrade from LMDE 6 goes smooth and without any issues. I just performed …
VLC
I was able to build the latest VLC for PowerPC, after many years being unable to be built. It was shown to work on the new Mirari board, a PowerPC based computer with the e5500 chip. The Mirari does not have Altivec instructions. The VLC packages were built with Altivec disabled. VLC PowerPC is only …
BrassMonkey
Today BrassMonkey, an internet suite application, was added to the MintPPC repository. To install: sudo apt updatesudo apt install brassmonkey Info at github
LMDE 6 cinnamon arm64 released
Hello, I am very proud to announce that LMDE 6 cinnamon edition for arm64 has been released. Much testing has been done and I now call the live installer stable. lmde6-cinnamon-arm64.iso installs LMDE 6 with packages from the Linux Mint Xia release in a Debian Trixie base. This distribution will have a shelf life until …
Preparations LMDE 7 arm64
I have started with the preparations of the next Linux Mint Debian Edition arm 64. It is called Gigi and has version number 7. I was able to build a live system with LXDE in this case as it builds fast and the right base-files package. As you can see, it is real Linux Mint …
How to install GIMP in MintPPC64
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install gimp-data=2.10.38-2sudo apt install gimpsudo apt-mark hold gimp-data