Here's what I did. NOTE: This procedure is not officially supported by the developers of Mint, and requires the installation of external packages. Attempt at your own risk!
This has been tested in Cinnamon. I haven't tried it yet on the other Mint versions... but will update this post once I am able to do so with the results.
UPDATE: This has now been tested on Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, and XFCE - works perfectly across all 4 main versions.
Step 1: If you have FTM working under Windows, make a backup of your family tree. I recommend exporting in GEDCOM format, since that seems to be the default "standard", and imports nicely into Gramps.
Step 2: Download the following package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/all/gramps/download.
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gramps_4.2.2~dfsg-1_all.deb
Once it's downloaded, you can go ahead & install it.... but don't try to run Gramps yet, as it will throw errors.
Step 3: Run the following commands in your terminal:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10
sudo apt-get install gtk+-3.0-dev libgirepository1.0-dev checkinstall
sudo apt-get install gnome-common gtk-doc-tools
(scroll down to the "Built Files" section)
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libosmgpsmap-1.0-0_1.0.2-1~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb
libosmgpsmap-1.0-0-dbg_1.0.2-1~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb
gir1.2-osmgpsmap-1.0_1.0.2-1~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb
Step 5: You should now have Gramps listed in your installed programs. Go ahead & launch it, and make sure there are no errors when it starts up.
Step 6: Gramps should prompt you to create a new family tree as your first step. Create one (call it whatever you like), and then load it.
Step 7: Once you've opened your blank family tree, use the dropdown from the "FamilyTree" menu in the upper-left corner, and select "Import".
Point it to your backup file that was created in step 1, and let it do the import. Step 8: You should now be done! You may need to re-associate any pictures/documents that were present in FTM, as those aren't supported in the GEDCOM format, but all your people/relationships/family into etc. should now be available in Gramps. Done!
I'm certainly no expert on FTM or Gramps, but I hope this will be helpful for those who do want to continue their genealogical research, and are having difficulty moving to Linux due to not having support for Family Tree Maker.
EDIT: Updated text to include KDE, MATE, and XFCE as also tested