As anyone who has used Linux for any amount of time can tell you, one of its greatest strengths is in its customizability. You aren’t stuck with a preset icon theme, or window theme, or overall look and feel. If you want something else you can find thousands of options, download one of them, and install it.
Just because your distro feels something should be “this way” doesn’t mean you have to accept it.Recent iterations of GNOME and Ubuntu, however – with their GNOME Shell and Unity environments – has led to a bit of that flexibility being taken back by developers. You can still change themes, but not without first installing some extra software.
This is partially a factor of how new GNOME Shell and Unity are, and partially a desire to provide a very unified interface.If you’ve read any of the articles about Linux Mint, you know that instead of providing a standard GNOME Shell or Unity interface (although both can be used), you are instead given something else. GNOME Shell with extensions to make it appear like the standard GNOME desktop environment was used for one release, while new releases use the forked Cinnamon project.
Fortunately for Ubuntu users wanting the same flexibility, there is nothing about Cinnamon that requires any Linux Mint specific programs or libraries, and it’s simple to get up and running. Here’s how.First, open up your Terminal.We’ll be adding a personal package archive (PPA for short), which will give us automatic updates. If we didn’t want to go this route, we could also install the.deb files manually, but then we wouldn’t get bug fixes or new features.
Hence, the PPA.
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu Linux distribution. Linux Mint 19 codename Tara is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So all the software that is available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is also available on Linux Mint 19.
Linux Mint 19 also has some extra softwares.Linux Mint 19 features a nice looking Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint 19 also has images for MATE and XFCE desktop environment.Beta version of Linux Mint 19 is available for download at the time of this writing. Stable version should be released at the end of June according to Linux Mint’s blog.In this article, I will show you how to make a Linux Mint 19 bootable USB drive and install Linux Mint 19 from it. Let’s get started.
Downloading Linux Mint 19:When the stable version of Linux Mint 19 will be released, you can download an image of Linux Mint 19 fromLinux Mint 19 “Tara” Cinnamon BETA can be downloaded fromLinux Mint 19 “Tara” MATE BETA can be downloaded fromLinux Mint 19 “Tara” XFCE BETA can be downloaded fromI am going use Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Cinnamon BETA in this article. Making Bootable USB Drive from Linux:If you have a Linux distribution such as Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora etc installed on your computer, you can make a bootable USB drive of Linux Mint 19 “Tara” with the following command.
$ sudo dd if= /Downloads /linuxmint- 19-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso of= /dev /sdb bs=1MNOTE: Here /dev/sdb is the USB drive. You may have a different identifier. Make sure you check with sudo lsblk before you run this command.Once the process is completed, you should be able to boot from the USB drive.
Making Bootable USB Drive from Windows:From Windows, Rufus can be used to make a Linux Mint 19 bootable USB drive.First go to the official website of Rufus at and you should see the following window.Scroll down a little bit to the Download section and click on Rufus Portable link as marked in the screenshot below.Rufus Portable should be downloaded.Now run Rufus Portable.Click on No.Rufus Portable should start.Now insert your USB drive. Rufus should detect and select it as you can see from the marked section of the screenshot below.Now click on Select.A file picker should be opened. Select your Linux Mint 19 iso file you just downloaded and click on Open.It should be selected. Now click on START as marked in the screenshot below.Click on YES.If you don’t know what it is, just leave the default and click on OK.All the data of your USB drive should be erased.
If you don’t have anything important on your USB drive, click on OK. Otherwise, make a backup of your data and try again.It should take a while for the process to complete.Once it’s completed, you can click on CLOSE.You USB drive is now ready.
Booting from the USB Drive:Now that you have a bootable USB drive of Linux Mint 19, you can boot from it and install Linux Mint 19 on your computer. First insert your USB drive to your computer. Now you have to select your USB drive from the BIOS of your computer. Usually you press F2 or Delete or some other keys just after you pressed the power button of your computer. It depends on the motherboard of your computer. Please check the manual of your Motherboard for more information.Once you select your USB drive from the BIOS, you should see the following window. Select Start Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 64-bit and press.You should be booted into the Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon Live DVD.Installing Linux Mint 19:In this section, I will show you how to install Linux Mint 19 on your computer.First double click on Install Linux Mint icon as marked in the screenshot below.The Linux Mint 19 installer should start.
Select your language and click on Continue.Now select your Keyboard layout and click on Continue.If you want to install third party drivers and multimedia codecs while installing Linux Mint 19, mark the Install third-party software for graphics and Wi-Fi hardware, Flash, MP3 and other media as marked in the screenshot below. You will need internet connectivity for that. Once you’re done, click on Continue.If you want to erase everything and install Linux Mint 19 on your hard drive, the easiest option is Erase disk and install Linux Mint.But if you want to dual boot Windows and Linux, then you will have to select Something else.
In this case you can do manual partitioning and install Linux Mint 19 on custom partitions. That’s what I am going to show you in this article.You may not have a partition table on your hard drive. Just select your hard drive and click on New Partition TableNow click on Continue.For UEFI installation, you need an EFI System partition and a Root(/) partition. For BIOS installation, you only need a Root(/) partition. I am going for the UEFI installation.To create a new partition, select free space, and click on the + button.On the Create partition window, make sure the following options are selected. Once you’re done, click on OK. EFI System Partition should be 512 MB in size.Now create a Root(/) partition with the rest of the free space.
Make sure the Mount point is set to /.
Thank you for the advice, the truth is it's not my PC, I installed Mint several months ago on my girlfriend's notebook, everything worked fine, but the iPhone. So I ask the community for any other way to connect the device - the simplest way possible. If there is no other option, I will try Wine/PlayOnLinux, but I doubt my girlfriend would accept such a struggle as she mentioned only installing iTunes is a waste of our time and she would rather listen to the same music for the rest of her iPhone's life:D.
If you installed Linux Mint 19 you will find that Wine is not installed by default and you need to install it. There are two versions for Linux Mint 19:. linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit.iso.
linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit-v2.isoThe new one(version 2) fixes a problem with installation allowing installation with Internet connection. Another important change with this version is that wine installation is fixed. Many people complain in the web that there are problems installing wine on: linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit.iso.
So if you can then it's better to check which version you have installed on your machine.Install Wine on Linux Mint 19Follow next commands to install wine 3 on Linux Mint 19. Note that if you have previous installation of wine it's better to clean them from the Software manager or by:. enable 32 bit architecture if your system is 64 bitsudo dpkg -add-architecture i386. add the repositorywget -nc apt-key add Release.keysudo apt-add-repository 'deb bionic main'. install wine by:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install -install-recommends winehq-stable. final step is to configure wine by:winecfgbelow you can see the windows from wine config:Adding wine to the menuWine can be added to the menu either by installing a program or manually.
I had to reinstall the operating system on my Thinkpad laptop and decided to install Linux Mint on it instead of Windows 8 or 10, the operating systems that were previously installed on it.The installation of the Linux distribution wentfine. Will re-explore mint in future. Couldn’t get my wireless to work. Despite it working with other Linux’s out there. So will retry later on in October when I’m laid off gave up for now.
Tried mint out and it seems best choice. Bbest choice is irrelevant if I cant get it on the network or to internet.laptop was a vista32 os on a 64bit laptop (school did that, not me). Got laptop per rubyonrails classes.Had hoped to put win7 or win10 on it. But since it was vista. I couldn’t.So Linux was a choice because I want to put to mjor emulations under it that I have stored on my NAS that would be moved to the new laptop both emulations one game related (mame) and other rubyrelated (currently on both window and a older Linux laptop). Would be worth it.fortunately I don’t really care what Linux distro I use. And I’m more about doing perl and basic Linux cmdline stuff than much else.
So I may very well temporarily try a lesser mint ie; not as minty.ha. Software engineers think complexity is equal to intelligence.
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It is, they are correct, but intelligence doesnt matter at all what-so-ever, level of consciousness and wisdom matter. Simplicity is equal to high level of consciousness. High level of consciousness is faaaar harder to come by than high level of intellect. The best explanation Ive ever heard of intelligence, is that ‘intelligence is like a weapon, some people have a cannon, some have a automatic rifle, some have a shotgun, and some even have a tiny lil.22 caliber pistol but having the weapon means nothing if you shoot it randomly in dark, yes you might get lucky a few more times with a cannon than a.22 pistol but someone who knows how to use their.22 caliber pistol will be beat the guy who doesn’t know how to use his cannon almost every time.’ People that make things simpler are people with high levels of consciousness. Useful information, thanks.
For a long time, I had problems with various Linux distros when testing them using a Live USB. Many distros, such as the ultra-fast booting Slax, consistently failed to locate wireless.Mint was the one distro that worked–I’ve never had a problem on any computer–laptop or desktop–with the wireless connection and Mint. Oddly enough, a fresh install of Windows requires so much user input and additional driver installs that I find myself “begging” customers to use Linux Mint.
Mint even offers and installs any dedicated graphics card drivers needed. Martin, the Linux Mint installation media contains a wide selection of drivers. That’s why they became available when you reinserted the USB drive. During installation Linux Mint will attempt to get needed drivers from the Internet if they are not on the installation media. Of course, this couldn’t happen because you were not connected to the net. If you had been able to use a wired connection temporarily most likely the problem would not have occurred.
It’s what’s called “The Chicken and the Egg dilemma”.:-). Ha, I have a Broadcom modem, too, Martin, (Dell Inspiron 1545) and when I installed Mint a couple of months ago, I had to go wired at first, and then Google the problem to find the right terminal command to update my firmware. That was the only snag I had. And yes, I should have paid attention to the usb live “try mode”, but didn’t!
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I came over from Kubuntu where I didn’t have that problem (amazing, since Mint is supposed to have a better driver selection). If you want any suggestions on apps to help maintain your kernel, please let me know! I’ll be happy to help!:). I just installed Mint as a dual OS with Win7.
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It says I’m connected to the network, but can’t access the internet. Chose my router/connection, entered the password, says signal strength is 90-something percent, but when I open browser or try to install an app (from software manager), they both say I’m not connected to the internet. Even during installation, it said I wasn’t connected, even though I connected via hard wire per installation instructions.
Reboot to Win 7 & access internet. Reboot to Mint No go! This is my VERY first interaction with Linux whatsoever The forums won’t load for me to get help, and everything else I find online is so technical that I can’t follow instructions. And this isn’t the first page I’ve asked this question, but it seems NOBODY answers questions!!!. I do love the Plug-n-play functionality Windows offers; however it does come with a lot of bloat.I tried several quick Live Linux versions on my Lenovo Flex 3 and none of them could detect the Wi-Fi. Personally I don’t find this off-putting as when I wanted to learn Windows when 3.1 came out, I dove in and learned by fixing. So, now that my UNIX skills have atrophied to the point of unrecognizability, I wiped Win 10 and put Linux Mint on.
No Wi-Fi; heck, doesn’t even recognize the device (Qualcom, but doesn’t display in Driver Manager).But hey, I’ll figure it out with help from the community, and learning is half the fun.Thanks for the article, really enjoyed it and found it informative. This is just a suggestion, I have not had to do this. If you don’t have internet access on a Linux Mint computer, but have access to a Windows pc, go to packages.linuxmint dot com (if you have Linux Mint). Forza 3 pc. Go to your version, eg, Linux Mint Rosa 17.3, click on this, you will get a list of packages, head down to mintwifi package, click on source directory, then download latest version. I hope this works for you, as I say, I haven’t done it. (It would be worth a try?).
Transfer to a spare usb stick (format it to fat32 first), just cut and paste to eg, your downloads folder in Mint. It is a.deb file, (latest one),so double-click on it. I’m guessing then you would go to Menu, type in Device Manager and you should be able to go from there. I hope this helps. (Do this with whatever your version, eg, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, I see that 18 is listed as well).
Update: my solution is ‘nutty’ – you still need to get drivers and the computer is offline. Try Martin’s method, and if you still have problems and have access to another computer and have Broadcom as some commenters said, try: cects dot com/bcm 4311-mint 16-nowireless-nointernet/ and also do a search for community.linuxmint dot com ‘how to install Broadcom b43 wireless driver without internet/offline”. (Also look at comments there). If you need a different driver, substitute it and search (driver name) wireless driver without internet install offline in Linux (distro), etc. Try your distro support page, and keep searching.
It is worth it. Thanks a lot for the tip!:)I had a problem after selecting those driver options because apparently I needed Internet access to enable my Internet accessSo I just connected an Ethernet cable. to my home’s router to establish a wired connection.Afterwards I was able to select these driver options and problem solved! Now I have access ro WiFi.Hope this helps others that are having the same problem I did.If you don’t have an Ethernet cabe it’s a good option to buy one and keep it just in case. Plus you can search for “making an Ethernet cable” in youtube, to DIY, it’s super easy.
Got a new laptop, HP notebook 15-ay129nd, and installed Mint 18.1. I just read an article that said that while Apple is clearly a VERY successful company, they seldom “get there first;” instead, they take a good idea (recognizing which ones are good is probably tougher than it may sound) and make it “enough better” to warrant doubling the price.My point is that LINUX is “the better way” for many people and orgs but far from all. There are obviously onerous limits on development when talent is volunteered and QC is very, very tough. Still, “open source” just might attract – even in 2017 – some talented individual or team to tackle this issue.
I’m no engineer, but if one inserts something (in my case a “dongle” that provides, via Windows, WIFI capability), recognizing that there’s a new something can’t be that difficult. Even if the software stopped at a point where you’re told to go to XYZ website to download something, that would be a big improvement over what appears to be the case (I just upgraded to MINT 18 in the hope that the latest would be the greatest or at least greater) currently.Still, this is/was a fine post – somehow, a pretty big sounding “driver” (Intel CPU) was un-bulleted. I have to think that there might be some improvement (not WIFI, alas) now that I bulleted it and rebooted. Jaap, I hope this helps you. Go to help.ubuntu.com, go to section ‘b43 – No Internet Access’ – get the binary deb package from Launchpad, double click on the package to install, then go for the b43 (14.04 Trusty Tahr) link, then follow instructions. (I’m thinking the Trusty Tahr link because you would have a later version of Mint.
Do a search if unsure to see if your version of Mint is compatible with Trusty Tahr, eg, is Mint 17.3 compatible with Trusty Tahr 14.04).Restart after you have done this, then see if wifi comes up. Sudo ufw enable, then update and upgrade.
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