Trisquelize linux mint?
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I have an old partition containing linux mint. Didn't use it since ages but i'm kind of running out of disk space...
can I trisquelize linux mint just like ubuntu?
They have almost the same repos, afaik.
And the version i'm running is rebecca, i.e. trusty .
Can I just replace "trusty" with "belenos" and replace the repo url with trisquel's repo?
I highly doubt it. Different input, different output.
Can't really answer, but I suspect Mint will have proprietary packages that trisquelize might not remove. I would recommend running vrms first and trisquelize second. Other than that only you will know which undesired packages you will have installed in the past.
vrms is a joke because it's not going to identify all of the non-free things that are there because it doesn't even look at everything in the first place and even the things it does look at are being judged by different criteria. The best solution is to nuke the GNU/Linux Mint install and put Trisquel in its place.
" The best solution is to nuke the GNU/Linux Mint install and put Trisquel in its place."
Agreed.
"vrms is a joke"
I disagree. vrms does one thing and does it right: identify packages that come from non-free debian repositories. That is a step forward when trying to "clean" a buntu-based system. It's not perfect and people certainly feel offended by the use of rms initials, but other than that, vrms is a good option to remove some stuff from your machine. Far from being perfect anyway.
"vrms does one thing and does it right: identify packages that come from non-free debian repositories."
And that's *ALL* it does. It might (emphasis added) work okay on Debian but you'd figured that anyone enabling their non-free rpeository would know that they're installing packages from it. But, as soon as someone branches out and installs software from some other repository vrms is clueless because ALL it does it look at a pre-programmed list of packages (and Debian's packages at that) to see if they're installed or not. Nothing more. It makes no decisions on actual licenses or anything else.
"That is a step forward when trying to "clean" a buntu-based system."
It's made for Debian not buntu. As soon as it's used on certain distros other than Debian that's added more non-free packages (but didn't update vrms to know about them) it'll happily tell someone that their system is free of non-free things (because once again it's working only from a pre-programmed list and knows nothing else), and that RMS would be proud, even if that's not the case. Anyone could repeat the same process by list of installed packages and grepping it against a fixed list. It'd accomplish the same result. So problem #1 is that it doesn't identify non-free things and people rely on it when it's not accurate. Problem #2 is it claims to be a Virtual RMS but doesn't judge things as he would - i.e. it follows "Debian Free" not "Ubuntu Free" or "Fedora Free" or "FSF Free" and so comes to different conclusions about the packages it DOES know about as a result. So all in all it's a problem best to be avoided.
Thanks for all of your comments.
I decided to get rid of mint and go with a fresh install.
I suggest you take a look at this new topic I created:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/unninstall-all-packages-system-except-seleted-ones-possible
Your suggestions ideas and help would be very welcome and appreciated :)
Something significant about Mint is that the Mint repositories, unlike Ubuntu's, are not segregated based on whether they're free or non-free. So that necessarily means that vrms won't work correctly on it, and any attempt to make it entirely libre software will be more difficult. (I think I actually tried running vrms on a Mint live CD, and it told me, incorrectly, that the system had no proprietary software on it; but don't quote me on this, because my memory's fuzzy and I might be thinking of a different system.)
Why don't you use GParted on a Live system (such as Trisquel's) to delete the Mint partitions and move/enlarge the remaining partitions?
Mint==Ubuntu with even more non-free software
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