It came to my attention that xed, a lightweight text editor which is installed in MintPPC32 by default, no longer installs. I built a new version of xed (3.4.9). For those of you running MintPPC32 and want to upgrade xed, do the following: sudo apt install xed –fix-broken People using MintPPC64 can now install xed …
Category Archives: Installation
Donations welcome for LMDE bare metal installer
Lately I have been studying how Asahi Linux and Debian-Asahi Linux work and how it is installed bare metal onto Apple Silicon Macs. It has been shown that the current installer images which are provided on this site produce a working Linux Mint Debian Edition in virtual machines like Parallels and UTM on Apple Silicon. …
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warpinator
The cross-platform file transfer program warpinator has been added to the LMDE 7 repository.
Linux Mint Debian Edition unstable arm64
Since a couple of weeks I have been experimenting with the new packages which are available in the ‘alfa’ repository of Linux Mint. These packages are meant to be installed in the upcoming Linux Mint 23 ‘alfa’ edition. To see what is new look here and here. I ported those packages to Debian. To make …
Preparations for Linux Mint 23
Preparations for the Debian version of Linux Mint 23, codenamed Alfa have started. On the Linux Mint packages page, packages related to LM23 have appeared. A set of packages which are needed to build Alfa are not in the Trixie repository, only older versions (e.g. glib2.0). To be able to build Alfa, these missing newer …
Mesa-amber
Good news for MintPPC / Debian users on PowerPC: progress has been made on mesa-amber lately. I was contacted by a fellow called Alexis Lavie, a guy from France who is skilled in Linux and Java. He showed me that he got mesa-amber working on a G4 MDD 2003 with a Radeon 9000 Pro graphics …
LMDE 7 updated
Since today users of LMDE 7 arm64 will be able to upgrade to the latest Gigi based on Zena:sudo apt updatesudo apt upgrade For people who would like to install the latest LMDE 7 Gigi from scratch using the latest iso image, please send an email. The official announcement by the Linux Mint Team to …
firmware-b43-installer
The package firmware-b43-installer which was in the MintPPC repository did not work anymore for a while. Users of MintPPC could therefore not use the airport card. I deleted the packages from the server. To have a working airport, you need to make sure you have the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main You then …
Updates to LMDE 7
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 …
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