Considering that the default Mint-X-Openbox theme as it came with Linux Mint LXDE 12 is becoming somehow old, I thought it was a good idea to start looking for some new minty themes. On box-look.org I came across some variations to the default Mint-X-Openbox theme. What I personally don’t like very much about it is …
Category Archives: Installation
New Mint cursor themes
After upgrading your packages you will be able to select the latest mint-cursor-themes. You can do this by opening LXappearance from the menu (Customize Look and Feel) and change the cursor to Bibata Modern Classic. You will have to log out from the Mint-LXDE session and log back in to have it working across all …
legacy trusted.gpg keyring
I got the following error message: W: http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/repo/dists/unstable/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. To fix this problem, do the following: sudo apt-key export D7A223ABAA7CE436 | sudo gpg –dearmour -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mintppc.gpg
New MintPPC Installer
Lately I have been working on testing new installer images provided by Debian-Ports. I have read that many people tried to install MintPPC with the netinstaller and that it no longer worked. I can confirm this and it is not easy to fix everything. It requires more work than I thought. Many more programs are …
Login screen problem
If you happen to be unlucky and you upgraded some mint packages which were on the repository for a little while, you may have noticed that the login screen does not work anymore. I am sorry, I was a bit too quick with upgrading mint packages and uploading them to my server. I had not …
Updates
The following packages were upgraded in the repository: Arctic-Foxb43-fwcutterfirmware-amd-graphicsfirmware-b43-installerfirmware-b43legacy-installerfirmware-linux-nonfreefirmware-linuxfirmware-misc-nonfreeSpiderMail The following package was added:SeaLion Update 29.09.2023For an unknown reason, arcticfox, spidermail and sealion cannot be found in the repository. I am working on a solution. For the moment the packages can be installed manually from the pool directory in http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/repo. Update 01.10.2023To have access to …
Broken system
Today I fired up my PowerBook G4 again to see if I can get some progress. The MintPPC system is totally broken at this moment. The main problem is that various packages in my system require Perl 5.30 but the upgrade wants to install something of a higher version. So what I did was manually …
Update sources list
So I found my develop PowerBook G4 onto which I made MintPPC. I haven’t touched this machine for a long time. I will start posting some updates to what I am doing. I will first update the sources.list in /etc/apt/sources.list. As the keyring has been expired I first need to update to the latest Debian …
New powerpc test installer image Debian
Hi! Here is a new test image [1] which is supposed to test the proper partitioningof the HFS boot partition and mounting it to /boot/grub. Note: This image will *not* install GRUB yet properly. The purpose of this image is just to test whether the changes I made to the package partman-auto and the new packages hfsprogs-udeb …
New installer images
Could you please try the new installer images and report back any issues? You might want to install plain Debian or MintPPC, up to you.Link to images