What is lmde linux mint

Релиз дистрибутива Linux Mint Debian Edition 4

Версия:	4
Дата релиза:	20 марта 2020
Предыдущий релиз:	3 от 31 августа 2018

Кодовое имя:	Debbie
Базовый дистрибутив:	Debian 10 Buster

Состоялся релиз дистрибутива Linux Mint Debian Edition 4.

LMDE 4: Рабочий стол (среда Cinnamon)

Linux Mint Debian Edition, или сокращенно LMDE, это специальная версия Linux Mint, которая основана на Debian. Одна из целей развития данного проекта — это создание дистрибутива Linux Mint, который сможет существовать, если вдруг когда-нибудь исчезнет Ubuntu, на которой основаны все основные редакции Linux Mint.

То есть LMDE это своего рода запасной вариант на случай, если разработка Ubuntu будет по каким-то причинам прекращена.

LMDE разрабатывается с прицелом на то, чтобы быть настолько же простым, как и обычный Linux Mint, но не основываться на Ubuntu. Но при этом разработки из Linux Mint должны функционировать в LMDE.

В LMDE используется пакетная база Debian.

Кодовое имя

Кодовое имя новой версии — Debbie.

Cinnamon 4.4

В LMDE 4 используется среда рабочего стола Cinnamon 4.4 (пресс-релиз).

Что нового

Некоторые из изменений в новой версии дистрибутива.

• Автоматическая разметка диска с поддержкой LVM и полнодискового шифрования.
• Поддержка шифрования домашней директории.
• Поддержка автоматической установки NVIDIA драйверов.
• Поддержка SSD-накопителей NVMe (NVM Express, NVMHCI — Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification).
• Поддержка SecureBoot.
• Поддержка подтомов Btrfs.
• Обновлена программа установки.
• Улучшения из Linux Mint 19.3 (пресс-релиз и видео).
• Пакетная база Debian 10 Buster.
• И некоторые другие изменения.

LMDE 4: Ядро.

Системные требования

Минимальные системные требования:

• 1GB RAM (рекомендуется от 2GB).
• 15GB места на диске (рекомендуется 20GB).
• Разрешение 1024×768 (при меньшем разрешении можно использовать клавишу Alt для перетаскивания окон мышью).

Скачать LMDE 4

Скачать Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 можно с официального сайта LinuxMint.

Источник

Release notes

This is LMDE 4, codename Debbie.

Known issues

Repository Errors

Following the move of Debian Buster from «stable» to «oldstable», you might get error messages. To solve the issue, open a terminal and run:

apt update —allow-releaseinfo-change

LMDE Installer

To launch the installer in expert mode, run the following command:

Btrfs setups with multiple subvolumes on the same partition (/@ and /@home for instance) are not supported by the manual partitioning mode. You can use the expert mode for this.

To install LMDE on an existing LVM partition you must first remove it from the LVM volumes and groups to which it belongs.

In manual partitioning mode, note that the installer will automount all swap partitions. These partitions will also be placed in /etc/fstab in the installed system.

Yumi multiboot

The LMDE ISOs and the live installer use a different structure than the ones used by other distributions. Please do not use Yumi or multiboot technologies with LMDE as it won’t install properly.

Locked root account

The root account is locked by default.

To use the recovery console (from the Grub menu) or log in as root, you first need to give root a new password:

sudo passwd root

Virtualbox Guest Additions

To add support for shared folders, drag and drop, proper acceleration and display resolution in Virtualbox, click on the «Devices» menu of Virtualbox and choose «Insert Guest Additions CD Image». Choose «download» when asked and follow the instructions.

Sound and microphone issues

If you’re facing issues with your microphone or your sound output, please install «pavucontrol».

This will add «PulseAudio Volume Control» to your menu. This application has more configuration options than the default volume control.

DVD Playback with VLC

If VLC does not find your DVD player, click on Media->Open Disc, and specify ‘/dev/sr0’ as the disc device.

Issues with KDE apps

If you’re experiencing issues with KDE apps (Okular, Gwenview, KStars..etc) run the following command:

apt install kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins

Other issues

LMDE 4 is based on Debian Buster. Make sure to read the Debian release notes.

Username and password in the live session

In the live session, the username is «mint» and the password is empty (i.e. just press Enter if asked for a password).

Moving windows which don’t fit in the screen

If your screen resolution is too low, some windows might not fit in the screen.

While pressing the ALT key, you can grab any part of a window with the mouse and move it across the screen.

Installing multimedia codecs offline

To download the multimedia codecs into an installable archive:

• Boot from the Linux Mint ISO on a computer which is connected to the Internet
• Open a terminal and type «apt download mint-meta-codecs» (without the quotes)
• This creates a «mint-meta-codecs.tgz» archive

On computers which do not have an Internet access, you can decompress this archive and run ./install.sh (or alternatively «sudo dpkg -i *.deb») to install the multimedia codecs.

PAE support in 32-bit kernel

To guarantee compatibility with non-PAE processors, the 32-bit versions of Linux Mint Debian come with a 686 non-PAE kernel by default. For PAE support, simply install the 686-PAE kernel and reboot your computer.

Type the following commands and reboot the computer:

apt update
apt install linux-headers-686-pae linux-image-686-pae

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Источник

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LMDE 4 “Debbie” released!

The team is proud to announce the release of LMDE 4 “Debbie”.

LMDE 4 Debbie

LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is also one of our development targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.

LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead.

New features:

This new version of LMDE contains many improvements. Here are some of the main ones:

• Automated partitioning with support for LVM and full-disk encryption
• Home directory encryption
• Support for automated installation of NVIDIA drivers
• NVMe support
• SecureBoot support
• Btrfs subvolumes support
• Revamped installer
• Automatic installation of microcode packages
• Automatic resolution bump for the live session to a minimum of 1024×768 in Virtualbox.
• Linux Mint 19.3 improvements (HDT, Boot-repair, System reports, language settings, HiDPI and artwork improvements, new boot menus, Celluloid, Gnote, Drawing, Cinnamon 4.4, XApp status icons…etc)
• APT recommends enabled by default
• Removed deb-multimedia repository and packages
• Debian 10 Buster package base with backports repository

Important info:

The release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions.

To read the release notes, please visit:

System requirements:

• 1GB RAM (2GB recommended for a comfortable usage).
• 15GB of disk space (20GB recommended).
• 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

• The 64-bit ISO can boot with BIOS or UEFI.
• The 32-bit ISO can only boot with BIOS.
• The 64-bit ISO is recommended for all modern computers (Almost all computers sold since 2007 are equipped with 64-bit processors).

Upgrade instructions:

To upgrade from LMDE 3 please visit:

Download links:

Here are the download links for the 64-bit ISO:

Integrity and authenticity checks:

Once you have downloaded an image, please verify its integrity and authenticity.

Anyone can produce fake ISO images, it is your responsibility to check you are downloading the official ones.

Enjoy!

We look forward to receiving your feedback. Thank you for using Linux Mint and have a lot of fun with this new release!

168 comments

Thank You Linux Mint Team!

Thanks, I was bored inside the house doing nothing. Let’s format some machines to pass the time.

I’m on it, let’s do this!

Great news, thank you Linux Mint team!
I tried to run LMDE 4 from USB drive on my PC, but the boot process always stops with the following lines on the screen:

modprobe: module dm-raid45 not found in modules.dep

BusyBox v1.30.1 (Debian 1:1.30.1-4) built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands.

Any ideas why that is happening and what I can do to boot properly?

I had the same info on black boot screen but installation went without problem (uefi, disabled legacy)

I downloaded the ISO again from a different server and used a different USB drive. Now it boots without any interruptions. The install also went smoothly, and I am writing out of the freshly installed LMDE 4 system now.

always compare the hashes >>>>> iso might be corrupt or falsely downloaded or manipulated ….

configurar desde bios o efi , poner arranque desde usb efi

I have now got exactly this problem with lmde4 on boot from my normal ssd hard disk. I initially installed the lmde4 beta which was fine for several days and reboots, and this problem has only started after the latest updates. the setup includes a grub multi-boot which still works fine for lm 19.3 and debian buster on other partitions on the same disk.

I had this problem with lmde4 after using it ok for a few days. I then started it in recovery mode and saw messages that I needed to run fsck manually on the lmde4 partition. I did this, replying yes to everything, rebooted, and the problem disappeared.

Open your files to the ew.jag.dm-raid45 and open your terminal, then copy the code that comes up into it and then reboot your pc then. Should be working!

Hi Clem and all – Thanks for all the work on this
Is there any reason to choose LMDE over the Ubuntu-linked versions? I tend to use software from the Ubuntu repos so perhaps there is; is he same stuff likely to be available from Debian? I like the idea of having a minimal installation – less to go missing!

Alright! Dumb question: is there a way to upgrade from LMDE4-Beta to LMDE4 ?

I’m pretty sure that it upgrades automaticallyhttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3867&replytocom=153938#respond

Yes, there is.
First Step: Apply all updates.
Second Step: You’re done!

LOL – very nice, thanks! I suspected that was the case but wasn’t 100% sure.

Thanks for asking! I was here asking myself the same thing.

One remark to the download mirrors:
Some of the download mirrors support https, some support only http.
It can be its time to stopp to use support non secure http

I immediately downloaded this and installed it on a Lenovo T530 and T410 (intel graphics) and it runs flawlessly so far.
I would urge everyone to give this LMDE 4 distro a try. I love the Mint 19.3 distro but for my needs the LMDE 4 distro is absolutely perfect. In my experience it is a little snappier and stable than LMDE 3. Thanks to Clem and team for working hard to develop this distro that relies on Debian for us. I loved it so much I donated what I could. I urge others to donate also to keep this excellent distro (and the Mint team) alive.
Mint is and has been my daily driver for years! It seems to not get the love it deserves!

Thanks for your comment! Linux Mint was my first distro many years back. I’m currently running Debian 10 Buster, running LMDI on virtualbox. I’m seriously considering making LMDI my daily driver. Yeah I agree, Linux Mint doesn’t get the love and acknowledgment it deserves!

Thank you @clem and thank you to the whole linux mint team!
Merci @clem .

how do I delete the swap file , how do I do full disk encryption if I chose to partition manually ?

SEE below … you asked again

My machine has a 30GB SSD + 16GB RAM , after I installed this version I was left with just over 6.6GB of free space, I assume I have lost my free space in the swap file. I tried to use manual partitioning but I was unable to use disk encryption.
Would it be possible to disable the “swap” option during the install?
Also it would be handy to have the option to define how much space I want to use on my drive when choosing the default option without having to use the “Manual Partitioning” tool.

No, there IS not …. these setup are made for non-pros …. You have to use manual setup or use another distro

As a rule, the swap is automatically sized to twice the available ram since it acts as virtual memory. however, you can use f2fs and a large usb stick for the swap. mine is 60GB since it will dynamically create space for files placed onto it from the available swap. the downside to doing that is a slowdown in accessing that drive, but at least it does not break the system.

have you checked how much space timeshift is using? When Mint started promoting timeshift usage I had disk space issues and learnt to be careful how many backups to do, and where. They can be deleted easily, or disabled, if you are just testing and can risk having to reinstall, even though thats not recommended in the long term.

> LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear.

What if systemd will disappear? How are you gonna replace that huge blob? Why not use a simple, modular yet effective init system instead

Andrew – excellent point.

Yes, I’ve been lobbying for LMDE to be Linux Mint DEVUAN edition since Debian took the SystemD poison pill 4-5 years ago.

What if Trolltech, the Qt Company, take back the Qt Framework? SystemD won’t disappear, Ubuntu maybe, e.g. Mandriva, because serves to a company’s purposes.

systemd is way too big, bloated and insecure, just do a search on ‘systemd vulnerability’. From a big application you can only expect lots of issues, with a small one – you can control & change it easily and it’ll have less bugs, that’s for sure.

God bless Linux mint team!

thank you all team Linux Mint for all hard work

Excellent job, but you should seriously considering supporting existing LVM partitions, its a pity we can try it only in virtual box. Kindly look into it. Pop OS has an external installer which can install to existing LVM’s, you can look into it or even calamers is getting better

For Clem and his team…

Guys, I have been using LM for years now, actually my first LM version was 17.3. LM has been my daily driver for years now.

This is the first time that I have tried LMDE. I really really had to try it after I had read the announcement. And you know what: after I had tried it tonight in Virtualbox, it’s the first thing in the morning to install it on bare metal.

It’s gorgeous, really. So smooth, as smooth as silk, polished, easy on resources, out-of-the-box ready for work, consistent…

Compared to LM 19.x (I have used 19.1 Mate for months), I think LMDE is better, really. I’ve been playing with it, trying apps like Kdenlive, Ocenaudio and such like for two hours and it works without a glitch. Even smoother that LM 19.1 Mate. Wow. Cheers and I wish you all the best.

Thank you.
I have already installed it on two PCs that I have at home. Because of the corinavirus flu I have a lot of time. Take care and isolate yourselves at home from this plague.
It works correctly in two installations that I did one on a disk with MBR and the other on a disk with GPT and UEFI. On a negative note I have noticed that the mouse pointer search by pressing the control key does not work.

Thanks a lot, keep up the fantastic work!

“Automatic resolution bump for the live session to a minimum of 1024×768 in Virtualbox.”

Looks like there is a (resolution specific) bug in Software Manager (“mintupdate”):
1. Start LMDE4 in VirtualBox 6.1.4 (default screen res. 1024×768) and then run Software Manager – after “Generating cache…” phase, maximize/restore window control dissappears and you can’t shrink window below screen resolution. (according to “gnome-screenshot” lowest window dimensions are: 1026×695)
2. Start LMDE4 in VirtualBox 6.1.4 and change screen res. to 640×480 and run Software Manager – now min. window dimensions: 1026×492
3. Start LMDE4 in VirtualBox 6.1.4 and change screen res. to 800×600 and run Software Manager – now window dimensions: 800×560

Why so incosistent behavior with different screen res.?

“LMDE 4 Release Notes” are very frightening. So many incompatibilities & workarounds already! How many more, yet to be discovered? LMDE has problems with some KDE applications, etc … Also, Virtualbox, YUMI, microphone, VLC, expert mode, etc.
We know that LMDE exists because if Ubuntu seems not reliable enough. But LMDE seems to be a half finished, half polished version of normal Mint.
Normal Mint works best for my complex & unusual hardware setups. However it has strange cache slowdowns with multi-tasking, compared to other operating systems on the same hardware. KDE NEON & Windows-10 seem to work smoother & better.
The main advantage of DEB based operating systems is that there are far more third party apps, compared to other Linux operating systems.
Normal MINT however has advantages over LMDE. It has Ubuntu’s PPA system, with better hardware compatibilities. It has greater coder , testing & debugging experts. So I’ll stay with standard Mint for the moment.

Clem i have lame question please answer, Why LMDE 4 update manager doesn’t have Kernel update utility ?
Rest all works flawlessly and I am really liking the new release 🙂 thanks clem and team kudos
Keep up the good work

The kernel utility in Mint relies on the fact that the underlying base (Ubuntu) is committed to support both LTS and HWE kernel series, and that it provides multiple series during the lifecycle of the release. This is not the case in Debian.

I installed it on my MintBox2 Pro to replace Mint 19.3 and it was super easy to install. It works perfectly well and now I just need to check if I miss something from Ubuntu…
Great job guys, I still keep Mint 19.3 on my laptop to be able to compare it to LMDE4 but I like it so far. I like the idea of a Debian only version and was wondering a bit about drivers and a few other things but I can wait for perfection…

Well, happy to see some got this to install.. Me, yeah, not so much..gets to the partition part,and then just either stops or boots out of the intall, I can’t tell. Running Mint 19.3, downloaded and put it on a usb stick using Mint. Goes to install, even to the parat of asking to form partitions. and then, just quits as far as I can see.. let it sit, 5 minutes.. still nothing.. , even Mac and Windows has a processing bar. If Mint 19.4 was installing there should have been something at least letting me know. but for me, i think it xxx, (everytime i tried it), and just went back to the live desktop.

Note by moderator: Edited, removed all the F words.

Run it in a terminal so we can see what’s going on… “sudo live-installer”. If you’re using full disk encryption, don’t choose to fill the disk with random data (that can take hours).

I have LMDE 4 all up and running and so far, smoothly. 😀 If I can install it, anyone can.
I was dual booting with windows but I stuffed up the partitions so I just reinstalled it and wiped out window, no big loss. LOL
I am sure they will fix up the Kernels as I took advice a while back and I just kept 2 versions in case anything went wrong.
Good one Clem.

Great distro! Pure Debian is too boring and raw. Mint makes it great. Saves hours of installs and tweaks because it’s awesome right away. Thanks!

The only thing missing is the option to install Mint without any SWAP in an easy way like the way Calamares installer does. Also, the Calamares installer makes the installation more secure when the full disk is encrypted because it uses GRUB to handle encryption / decryption so no one can see the GRUB menu before decrypting the disk.

I’m ashamed to show the GRUB menu because people will see that I still use Windows for games on dual boot.

There’s no shame in using Windows, especially for gaming. We need to be humble in areas where we don’t do better.

Regarding swap, we’ll improve this next time around.

Regarding full disk encryption at Grub level, does the passphrase handle custom keyboard layout?

Install seemed slow. The Grub screen was woeful, abject, I’ve been struck by new distros messing up the Grub screen before, but never like this.

Generally everything is slow, menu lags, memory 1.5GB with Firefox, one tab.

Now I have to get Mate on here.

Most people love the new grub theme. If you’re in HiDPI try grub2-theme-mint-2k.

Also the fairly fascist “you’re in country x so you must speak language x” (hi Google). It takes some effort to find English. All the dialogs were written in English (I care not which variant), so default to English.

Let me get this straight.. you’d prefer a “you’re in country x, but who cares? you must speak en_US.UTF-8”. Wouldn’t that be more “fascist”?

… also I chose Btrfs, can the installer not place symlinks so when installing the next distro, that Grub can detect this install?

Try to describe things a little better, use the bug reporting methods suggested and don’t be late to the party (the BETA is over). If you’re constructive about this we can get it done for the next release.

Great news, thank you Linux Mint team
Greeting from Denmark 🙂

I loaded the Beta and have been using update faithfully. I don’t have to do anything but allow the update manager to do its thing to be running the “final” version – right?

Nice work folks – runs like a champ!

Excellent! Love it! Will donate asap

Hmmmm….Are you sure about NVMe support ? I can see only my SATA SSD , but not NVMe one . I mean most probably I have to install additional packages to support it but it is not automatically detected .

I am a linux mint enthusiast. 1 year in linux. I like this debian based distro although i use Mint Mate in the classic way. Even if you decide to launch an arch based version of mint i will check it. Btw the latter would be even cooler. Might try this version, although there’s nothing new in the table for me.

Downloading now, can’t wait to get working on stripping down the 32 bit version to run on the eee pc 4G (4GB ssd, 512MB ram, single core 900 mhz celeron)

LMDE 2 and 3 both work fine on them, assuming you’re not trying to do anything serious like google or facebook.

Great news, guys!
Thank you for your huge work, I will upgrade from lmde4-beta as soon as possible!

Is there any bugs with the NVIDIA Drivers? I previously had issues with the NVIDIA 820M driver in LMDE 3. Is this fixed?

Bonjour à tous,
J’utilise régulièrement Lmde 3, mais j’ai un problème avec la nouvelle version Lmde 4. Impossible d’installer celle-ci sur mon ordinateur équipé de la carte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050Ti (la version béta était également impossible à installer). Si une personne à une solution je suis preneur ou alors faut il signaler cette bogue. Merci à tous

I an earlier post I stated I believe Mint and LMDE Mint are very good for daily driver machines and a post immediately appeared with a LOL rant about LMDE not being configurable etc.(since disappeared). I am not a power user, but could be, and worked on UNIX systems and Linux servers in the USAF. I have been using Linux since the 1990’s when WIFI, Printer and Ethernet drivers were a nightmare ,and I just do not want to configure and tinker with Operating Systems anymore. Many do, and that is OK. I just want something that works out of the box, has a nice intuitive workflow and is easy to configure any way you want. Mint fills that need for me better than anything else. I see no reason for power users to flame Mint or LMDE here; if it is not what you need then configure it as your wish or go to ARCH, Debian or the other hundreds of distros available. I think it is advantageous for open source users to use the distro that works for them, whatever that may be. Mint and LMDE are my go to distros and frankly can be configured however you want if you truly are a power user, so I see no need for “any distro wars” postings on the Mint site. The Mint team has given us a FREE operating system to use and I believe one of the best. New users reading this; try it. It is intuitive and far exceeds Windows 7 (gamers may disagree-I am not a gamer) if you are coming from that Operating System.’s demise. If it works for you and you use it for a few months think about contributing a little for it. Free software is not really free; a lot of man-hours is spent, a lot of server time utilized and a lot of personal time of the developer’s families used up in developing this Operating System. It is a great time to be using open source; take advantage of it if you can.

Thanks for good job, One big minus for me – installation process,
I mean we can’t choose bios/efi and we must have vfat partition, ((
The best installation process in Mx – they even allow to skip grub.cfg.
It would be great to improve it in future.

I took the opportunity to strip out the Mint stuff and manually upgrade to vanilla Debian 10. I’d upgraded from LMDE 2 to 3 though lsb-release still says DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”LMDE 2 Betsy”
But I use KDE anyway and LMDE tends to come out about a year after Debian stable. Staying with the old bluetooth stack was painful, I kept getting audio dropouts. Much love to Clem & company, but I got really sick of checking back often to see when the final version of LMDE would be out going from 2 to 3, and since I don’t tend to use mate or cinnamon on newer machines I wasn’t getting much benefit from staying with Mint, codecs haven’t been much of an issue in a long time, I prefer blueish themes to greenish, and I didn’t see the point in separately downloading Mint versions of some programs with my terrible 200kbps bandwidth (I use a proxy, so I only have to download Ubuntu & Debian packages once).
The upgrade undoubtedly took longer than a fresh install would have, but the results seem to be mostly the same, but it was an exercise in CLI-fu (seems slightly less racist than calling covid kung flu), but what the heck, my entire state is on lock-down. A little hairy typing “Yes, do exactly what I say!” when stripping out one Mint package. I eventually had to remove a good deal of the GUI stuff out to allow my apt-get dist-upgrade to finish and remove various pinned Mint versions of things, but it was easy enough to re-generate it all on the other end with tasksel and apt-get/apt.
I think this is the first time I haven’t had a Mint box in my stable since 2.0 Barbara back in 2006 shortly after I switched to Linux after finally getting “broadband” (Linux support for winmodems sucked). It was so great not having to futz around just to play an mp3, but that really isn’t an issue anymore. Over the years I used a variety of derivative distros, kanotix, knoppix, dreamlinux, MEPIS, linspire, sidux/aptosid, etc. Most of them were much harder to upgrade than the base distribution, and many of them became moribund, so I got used to upgrading them to the next base version. Mostly it worked. But kudos to Mint for sticking around and adding so much great stuff to the Debian-based world (apt comes to mind, but there are others). I would still recommend Ubuntu Linux Mint to less experienced users who I think would like mate or cinnamon. So mostly what I wanted to say was thank you, Clem, its been pretty damn good. And thanks for the fish!

I asked . Those of you who installed the LMDE BETA should be the first to receive the Yes or No Update?

Linux Mint makes me feel peaceful.

I’m not a power user, just an old guy staying home because of the pandemic and playing with my old imac. I have removed the Mac OS, installed Linux Mint 19.3 and love it. I would like to dual boot my computer and install LMDE 4 “Debbie” and keep 19.3 but when I try is wants to wipe my hard drive. Is it possible to dual boot, install LMDE 4 and kep 19.3? I’m amazed that people are so skilled and kind to devote their time to develope this OS and freely offer it to others.
I will be donateting when I am able and encourage others to do the same.

Yes! Select manual partition (bottom) rather than the default drive that shows up in the drive drop down option. Then create a partition for it.

The install process seemed to go OK. However, when it rebooted after the install I received an error message of no bootable device. I looked into reinstalling grub, but could not find one related to LMDE 4 “Debbie”
———————————————————————————————————————————————————–
mint@mint:/boot/grub$ grub-install –recheck -v
grub-install: info: executing modprobe efivars 2>/dev/null.
grub-install: info: Looking for /sys/firmware/efi …
grub-install: info: …found.
grub-install: info: … but x86_64-efi platform not available.
grub-install: info: … not found. Looking for /proc/device-tree …
grub-install: info: … not found.
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: install device isn’t specified.
mint@mint:/boot/grub$ grub-install
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: error: install device isn’t specified.
————————————————————————————————————————
Any advice?

I installed Linux Mint 19.3. It reported that LMDE 4 “Debbie” was installed.
However Linux Mint 19.3 installed as MBR not as UEFI. Should have installed as UEFI.

I installed Ubuntu 20.04 and it loaded in EUFI mode. I’ll “move” this issue to the Mint Forum to find-out how to to get LMDE 4 “Debbie” installed.

check bios for password lockout

Gave-up. Installed Mint 19.3. No problems. Did a test install of LMDE 4 “Debbie” on another computer. No problems. It would appear that the problem is with the BIOS of the computer that I had intended to use.

Steve: Should you return to the computer you wished to install LMDE 4 on:
Enter the UEFI/BIOS system settings. Set a “supervisor” password if you don’t yet have one. Re-enable secure boot (BOOT) and select UEFI file as trusted (MAIN). Select HDD0, SSD0, or eMMC0, then [EFI], then [debian], then grubx64.efi the UEFI file. Enter grubx64.efi in the space provided if selecting it doesn’t automatically enter it. Save BIOS setting and exit.

Tous les miroirs de Debian ne fonctionnent PAS.

I just installed “Debbie” on my notebook to replace the old LM 17 OS.
Everything i need works absolutely fine! 😀
Thanks LM-Team for your great work!

P. S. One little “isue”: When i try to install the first time i choose “do not install grub startmenu”, because i don’t need it. After reboot an error occurred that no bootable device was found.
Than a second try with grub installed and it worked.

Awesome, folks. I’ve been waiting on LMDE4… it seems like forever. It works great so far on my T430. Thanks for all you do!

Installed Debbie beta on an old acer netbook. Looks great and runs like a champ. Thanks Clem & the rest of the team for all your efforts.

Upgrade check hangs with 0% [working]:

Get:24 http://packages.linuxmint.com debbie/backport i386 Packages [32.7 kB]
Get:25 http://packages.linuxmint.com debbie/backport amd64 Contents (deb) [49.1 kB]
Get:26 http://packages.linuxmint.com debbie/backport i386 Contents (deb) [49.1 kB]
0% [Working]
+ Error detected on try #1……

Had the same issue. Please restore original /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list and run:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get check
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

Afterwards mintupgrade should work as expacted.

Hi LM team! Do you plan to release LM based on LXDE/LXQT environment?

Thanks Mint team!
It’s a very polished out of the box experience. Donated.

Mint + Debian! That’s so exciting. Like a combination of two of my favorite things. Now I’ll have Debian on all my systems, both servers and work stations. If only I weren’t neck-deep in a project at the moment and could check it out right away.

Plus, who knows, this might just finally fix the periodic frozen screen bug I’ve always had with Mint and AMD GPUs *fingers crossed* 😛

Thanks for amazing and free software. You guys rock!

I installed LMDE4 and during setup, I noticed you can no longer use capital letters for the computer name, only lower case. That’s one thing I don’t like about it. I much prefer using capital letters, but then that is me, it should give you the option of upper or lower case.

I was using LM 19.3 Cinnamon without any problems.
I’m having trouble installing LMD4.
Once installed on reboot it appears:

error: attempt to read or write outside of disk `hd0´
Entering rescue mode…
grib rescue>

The bios on this computer is Legacy. Processor 64b. Nvidia graphics card.
I could use some help…
Thanks in advance….

Check the settings of the initial hard disk in Bios.
Check if the hard disk and cable are in normal contact.
Check your hard drive for bad tracks.
If the above cannot be resolved.
Please Reinstall LMDE4.
If you can’t solve it, find another hard drive Reinstall LMDE4.
Hope that helps you.

Hi All, I’m a Gentoo and FreeBSD user, but in the past I was a LinuxMint user. Yesterday I installed LMDE4 in my first PC and in my notebook ASUS ZenBook 13 (i7 CPU with integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 + Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti): everything easy and smooth, with a system perfectly working. In the afternoon I tried to install from the same pen in my second PC (HP All_in_One with i7 CPU, integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 + AMD Topaz XT): the installer finishes into a CLI with no GUI due to technical problems with amdgpu. So it is impossible to install the OS. If I modify the boot line (nomodeset; or amdgpu.si_support=0; and other), with nomodeset I finish into a CLI, but I see that if I change to avirtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2) the LivePen does work (ping is OK, so lspci, and other commands). What could I do? Could I install from my command line? Thanks.

SOLVED! Succeeded to install from DVD with nomodeset.

Thank you mint team. LMDE is impressive. I will try this to come back after a long time. I am compelled to use windows so far.However, there is no ‘verify iso’ prescribed from windows.

Will this version later be put into the Software Manager App ?

Woot! Stay safe out there!

Thank you for the update to LMDE 4. I’ve installed LMDE 4 on two laptops and, in general, it works fine. The problems I’ve had are as follows:

1. On both laptops, I tried to install VirtualBox, but couldn’t. VirtualBox does not appear in the Software Manager, although Virtualbox-guest-additions-iso does appear. I downloaded the most recent VirtialBox deb file from Oracle and tried to install it. When I tried, the GDebi Package Installer told me a newer version was already installed. Is there a fix for this problem? If so, please tell me what it is. Otherwise, are you workin on a fix?

2. On one of my laptops, after I installed LMDE 4, there is an icon labeled “Install Debian” on the desktop. In the properties for the icon, the command is “install-debian” and the description is “Calamares Installer” and the comment is “Calamares — Installer for Debian Live”. I can delete this odd icon, but when I reboot the laptop, the icon reappears. How can I permanently delete this icon?

Thank you for your help, and for LMDE 4!

Pretty fine release! In my case everything runs without any problems! Fortunately installer-expert-mode is included. Some people asked for grub non-us-keyboard-layout in full-system-encryption. You could use “5 Using a custom keyboard layout” at:
https://cryptsetup-team.pages.debian.net/cryptsetup/encrypted-boot.html
Give it a try! 😀

Please help, I installed Wine and Wine does not appear or display in the menu. I spent more than 30 hours on this problem. I Installed Wine from the software manager, also installed Wine5.0-stable-amd64.deb from the official website of Wine-hq, I also enable 32bit… I also installed the missing dependency “libfaudio” for Debian Buster, If I try to install an .exe, I have not the choice to open the file with Wine and wine is already installed, if I type “winecfg” in the terminal, this command work. I Installed LMDE 4 on my hard disk and also in Virtual Box, same problem on both. Wine is well installed with all dependencies required. HELP. Sorry english is not my native language.
PS: I have no problem to do the installation of Wine, the problem is AFTER the installation nothing appear in the menu, I even replace Cinnamon by XFCE4 and Wine does not appears in both menu of LMDB-4.

32bit ISO is actually 64 bit…i have tried different sites download…

Why you Shame Clem That Bad Work.
If Try Load with Nvidia Drivers i goo to sleep bether for wathing load.
If Load Defoult All Work So Slow.
Errors Start in Every Load or Try To Shut Down again Errors.
Many Years i try any versions to choise One for My PC But Like This Shame LMDE4 Never used before!
You most Appolige All Fens For That Shit LMDE4!
Like Money not Bat But Used People Love and Give That Verry Bad Products.
Long Time ago you Lost First Place In DistroWatch .
Why do you think is Lie or Right Recomendets?

Are you serious? What the hell are you talking about?

Hi everyone,
While trying to modify my multi boot on my laptop I got a boot loader issue :
A black screen with the grub rescue prompt.
Boot Repair, TimeShift or LMD4 install in automatic mode , nothing was working anymore.
I had to struggle hours with the new revamped manual install.
I find out finally, how to create a new partition table with an ESP partition and a Root partition on my HDD
Only then I could reinstall LMDE 4 normally. Sigh!
Best regards from France.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
I’ve toyed with LMDE on and off for a long while, but with an older laptop coming free I’ve taken the plunge and installed as the main OS. What a great piece of work by the team, there is no-longer any difference in terms of quality from my usual LM19.3 XFCE desktop, and Cinnamon has some great features of its own.
Let Canonical get ‘extinguished’ by MS, we now have a truly viable alternative as our base for Mint 🙂

LMDE is now the faster+nicer on 1GB (that pays when more)
… Where the faster+cleaner is Trisquel(mini) on 512MB.
Respect my Amstrad PC1.512 (512k-20MB disk).

Thus, a Quick Question: LMDE Mate 1.24 will follow soon, right?
(HALF memory usage, where spare memory is demanded, never to swap.)

No, LMDE is only released with Cinnamon.

It’s easy to install Mate on LMDE. There are several ways to do so, but I used the tasksel command in terminal. I expected the resultant MATE to look like plain generic Mate, and not mint themed Mate, but to my surprise, the Mint Mate settings and themes are all there, and with no post-install tweaking at all, it looks pretty much just like the Mate edition in 19.3. Works like a champ, takes just a few minutes. Even though I like Cinnamon, I like to use Mate for virtual machine installs, just to reduce the resources the virtual machine uses.

This new ISO provides an installer. This is very much appreciated. Can you say fast? WOW. Aside from a few (very few) items, everything worked. I had to figure out how to unlock the printer – then delete the install printer. I simply let Mint find and install the driver. While I dislike Cinnamon, this edition is friendly and I no longer feel stranded in regards to using the Mate desktop. The improvement over the years is fantastic. I can use LMDE and do all my tasks. Clem, you have accomplished a lot over the last 11 years. All I can say is thank you.

LMDE4 is certainly a success.

For me I regularly use a program called Oregano, sadly its maintainers have entirely stuffed it up at version 0.84, and appear incapable of listening to users, and totally blind to using electronics, and understanding the earlier version was perfection. Thus I am still using LMDE 3 which happily runs the earlier excellent version of Oregano. But I run LMDE4 on another PC and a laptop, where it is lovely to use.

How long is LMDE 3 going to be maintained ?

Will LMDR 4 work on a 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 now ?

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