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have you removed the unwanted mint partitions ,and re-run sudo update grub? and can you paste your /boot/grub/grub.cfg

are you sure that one of the menuentries isnt recovery mode, if it is edit as root /etc/default/grub , and uncomment # in the line #GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" , save and exit , then run sudo update-grub

open a terminal sudo dpkg -i <filename>.deb or for more than one .deb sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Running lmde xfce 32 bit Gdm3 just has a plain blue background , and i believe it should have a blue with vertical lines The mint menu icons have moved to /usr/share/linuxmint/mintinstall/icons/mintmenu.png If i boot into tty1 , ie appending 'text' to the kernel arguement , login then type startx , ...