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crazy idea: from debian to mint-debian edition
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 3:54 am
by gcb
would i get away if i set apt/sources to a mint debian edition repositorie on my debian-stable box and do a dist upgrade?
...I don't have any dvds handy
Re: crazy idea: from debian to mint-debian edition
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:49 am
by Gerd50
It's not a crazy idea, i have done it few weeks ago. First installed debian stable > upgraded to testing > added
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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
to my sources.list > installed the mint packages i wanted and now have a mintified debian. I wanted to know if it works and
can say now, yes it does.
Re: crazy idea: from debian to mint-debian edition
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 8:01 am
by Oscar799
Moved here by moderator
Re: crazy idea: from debian to mint-debian edition
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:08 am
by asymmetros
One of the distros i am running is a mintified debian sId (debian's installer offers more options
).
Edit the sources as Gerd50 described, plus the linuxmint-keyring from the synaptic.
Re: crazy idea: from debian to mint-debian edition
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:12 am
by Aethyr
How about mintified CrunchBang? According to an older topic it wasn't safe, but if Crunchbang is meant to be 100% backwards compatible with Debian then it seems like it should according to this topic...
I might attempt it on a VM...
Re: crazy idea: from debian to mint-debian edition
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 9:38 am
by asymmetros
Aethyr wrote:How about mintified CrunchBang? According to an older topic it wasn't safe, but if Crunchbang is meant to be 100% backwards compatible with Debian then it seems like it should according to this topic...
I might attempt it on a VM...
My guess is that you can do this, but first you have to enable Debian testing repo's in your Crunchbang installation. Or you can get some ideas from that post:
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/443
But then, it depends to how "mintified" you want your system to be. For example, you can install -very easy- mintmenu, software center, etc -and not only in a debian based system. (eg mintmenu is available even in Arch's repos, if i am right)