How to get mintInstall to work correctly

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How to get mintInstall to work correctly

Post by merlwiz79 »

Open Terminal and copy and paste

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gksu gedit /usr/bin/mintInstall
Delete all the text and copy and paste

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#!/bin/bash
gksu /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintInstall/mintInstall.py $1
into Text editor and Save, now exit Text Editor.

Now every time you click Download and open with mintInstall it will work.

If the option to open with mintInstall disappears
Copy and Paste this into Terminal

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gksu nautilus /usr/bin
Right Click on mintInstall and click Proterties --> Permissions --> Check Allow executing file as program --> Close

Now try something from Software Portal.

//Edit by moderator//
mintInstall looks like it's frozen for a period during install.
Be patient!
Husse

Post by Husse »

This deserves to be sticky
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Post by clem »

Lemme play with the repository and release an updated version of mintInstall. I'm going to make this howto obsolete so fast it'll make its <head><title></title></head> spin :)
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Post by Husse »

Fixed in later versions of Mintinstall
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