lmde4 won't install, says "unable to run on non-dell system"

cithara · Post by **cithara** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:05 am

I'm trying to install LMDE4 on an Acer laptop, and it always says "unable to run on non-dell system". Right now I'm using LM with Xfce, and I have no problems installing any Linux Mint distro, as well as any Ubuntu distro on this laptop. But I can't seem to get LMDE4 to install. Any advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

cpedretti · Post by **cpedretti** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 6:26 am

cithara wrote: ⤴Thu Jan 28, 2021 1:05 am I'm trying to install LMDE4 on an Acer laptop, and it always says "unable to run on non-dell system". Right now I'm using LM with Xfce, and I have no problems installing any Linux Mint distro, as well as any Ubuntu distro on this laptop. But I can't seem to get LMDE4 to install. Any advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, It seems as though libsmbios-c2 was installed automatically.

Due to the particular package being provided by Dell it would look for the BIOS extensions for that.

That should be just a warning and not a critical error. You could go into the Recovery mode, after log into the root account just type:

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modinfo dell-smbios

cithara · Post by **cithara** » Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:13 pm

I did a search for "libsmbios-c2" in File Manager and yes, it's installed. I also put "modinfo dell-smbios" in terminal and it says a lot. Do you want me to paste any of that in here?

Thanks,
cithara

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