{"id":1057,"date":"2009-09-24T16:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2009-09-24T16:56:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T14:56:57","slug":"mint-8-beta-testing-the-new-mintinstall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Mint 8: beta-testing the new mintInstall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to thank all the people who sent us feedback during the recent development of mintInstall. We&#8217;re still happy to receive ideas and suggestions at this stage, but we&#8217;re also getting close to a usable product. Because the number of changes was so great and because I know many of you are interested in running this newer version, I decided to publish DEB packages for this beta of mintInstall.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the interface looks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/tmp\/blog\/mintinstall-beta.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To install this application, you first need to install a DEB package called &#8220;mintinstall-data&#8221;, and then another DEB package called &#8220;mintinstall&#8221;. Both packages can be downloaded at this address:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/mintinstall\/downloads\">http:\/\/github.com\/linuxmint\/mintinstall\/downloads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give us your feedback, don&#8217;t hesitate to report malfunctions or ideas for further improvements.<\/p>\n<p>This is already the 3rd blog post about mintInstall so we&#8217;ll move to something else after that. If we have the time, we might go down the same feedback\/dev_iterations process for mintUpdate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to thank all the people who sent us feedback during the recent development of mintInstall. We&#8217;re still happy to receive ideas and suggestions at this stage, but we&#8217;re also getting close to a usable product. Because the number of changes was so great and because I know many of you are interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}