The Debian GNU/MiNT project aims at providing the latest versions of
the most commonly used programs. Based on Debian GNU/Linux, MiNT
patches from Sparemint and separate packages, the MiNT port will
provide the same ease of use of package systems, and the same
directory structure as Debian GNU/Linux. Installation programs running
from TOS will be available later.
The Debian GNU/MiNT distribution is not (yet) a part of the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution, and is completely separated from the other
Debian ports, so far.
- 2000-09-19
- A corrected version of the mintbase.tgz file is now at place.
- 2000-09-18
- The first test release of the base tarball for Debian GNU/MiNT has been
made. It's available
here,
and its total compressed size is 16799254 bytes.
- No installation tools are available for this first test release. Gunzip
and untar into a clean partition or directory, and use the mint.cnf file
placed in /usr/share/doc/debian-mint/mint.cnf in the package.
- 2000-09-11
- The bash problem is fixed, and the previous fix in fileutils was moved
to mintlib. Also dpkg and sysklogd has had some small bugfixes.
- It is soon time to make a first test release of the base tarball. Its
size will be approximately 16MB and it will take about 70MB on an ext2
partition. A list of which packages that are included in the tarball
will also be available on the FTP site.
- 2000-09-06
- Architecture is now called mint-m68k, and a new dpkg version
understands this. When installing packages, dpkg might complain about
wrong architecture type; just use option --force-architecture
to force an installation. This problem will go away over time, when
packages are recompiled.
- 2000-09-05
- Base packages put into its own directory in the FTP area.
- New base packages compiled with MiNTLib 0.55.3.
- There are still some problems with bash, hanging when running scripts started from dpkg.
- 2000-06-28
- News section created.
We have a mailing list, dedicated for generic discussions about the
Debian GNU/MiNT project. To join, send a mail to listserv@nocrew.org with the
text "subscribe debian-mint <your full
name>" in the body of the message. If you join the list
and notice that others are writing in a weird language, most likely
to be Swedish, please tell us, and we'll switch to English.
We have started to compile some packages, but we cannot ensure
that things will work for you.
You can find all compiled packages on
ftp://ftp.nocrew.org/pub/debian-mint/binary-mint-m68k/.
The base packages are placed in the subdirectory base/.
To install the packages, you first need to unpack the
dpkg binaries,
or get the
Debian GNU/MiNT base tarball
to get a whole base file system to start working with. There is currently no
installation tool, so you need an old system. If you want to try this,
I suggest that you also join the mailing list, where you can get more
information, if you have problems. Later, there will be installation
instructions on this page.
For the moment, there are only a few source packages available for
download, but to not violate the GPL licence of the rest of the
packages, we will gladly provide possibly modifications we make when
porting packages to MiNT, if you mail us. The source packages
available so far, can be found at
ftp://ftp.nocrew.org/pub/debian-mint/source/.
Good luck.