Robin
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Post by Robin on Apr 28, 2023 17:29:12 GMT
A sweet graphical usb-formatter and usb-image-writer all in one. Nice li'l point-and-click newbie-friendly tool from the Linux Mint toolbox. Could that be added to Bodhi?
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 28, 2023 21:14:46 GMT
Mint offers a lot of nice custom tools. I dunno if mintstick will get added to Bodhi repos or not, but if you want to use it right now with Bodhi, you can install the mint-tools-for-other-ubuntu-distros ppa and then install it. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelebek333/mint-tools
sudo apt install mintstickYou could also actually add the mint key and mint repos, but gotta be careful with that, could break something and definitely not officially supported by Bodhi. I've done it before tho, to install 'mintinstall' which isnt in the mint-tools ppa, and didn't run into any issues, other than a broken "software sources" I couldn't easily remove (so just hid it). If you chose to go that route, you need to manually download the key, then add the appropriate apt source.
For example for Bodhi 7/Ubuntu 22.04:
cd /tmp
wget http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/l/linuxmint-keyring/linuxmint-keyring_2022.06.21_all.deb
sudo apt install ./linuxmint-keyring_2022.06.21_all.deb
echo 'deb http://packages.linuxmint.com victoria main upstream import backport' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mint.list
sudo apt update
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Post by Robin on Apr 29, 2023 11:03:12 GMT
I saw in another thread (after I posted this one) that the software has abuncha "mint-specific" properties that could mess up a Bodhi system. Maybe if someone geeky enough to fork it for Bodhi did so it would make a nice addition.
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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 29, 2023 16:23:50 GMT
Do you have a link to this other thread? There should be nothing in the PPA that could mess up any system. The whole point of that PPA is Mint Tools for distros besides Mint.
However yeah addiing Mint repos directly to Bodhi could be dangerous.
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Post by Sharp on Apr 29, 2023 18:01:06 GMT
Another way to add mintstick is to download it in the .deb file and then install it using gdebi. That is what I did and have no issues with it. You can find it here, most current is the last entry at the bottom of the page: "mintstick_1.5.6_all.deb 2023-Mar-28 11:53:29 49.3K application/vnd.debian.binary-package" packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/m/mintstick/ |
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Post by Robin on Apr 29, 2023 18:33:37 GMT
Do you have a link to this other thread? There should be nothing in the PPA that could mess up any system. The whole point of that PPA is Mint Tools for distros besides Mint. However yeah addiing Mint repos directly to Bodhi could be dangerous. describes why using Mint repos on Bodhi may be problematic. |
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