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Hello, yes I'm a newbie distro hopper.

What I'm trying to do may or may not be possible, I'm just here to ask.

I have Linux Mint, and Pop OS, CachyOS, and Windows 10 currently installed on this computer. I've tried Ubuntu, Garuda, Debian, OpenSusa, and a few others.

PopOS, and CachyOS plays my games on Steam with no selecting any compatibility layer except for on Mint, but Mint will do it with the layer.

What I want is the Driver Manager from Linux Mint to be in CachyOS or PopOS. I'm thinking it may be possible to do that in PopOS since it's based on the Ubuntu unlike CachyOS.

This is all open source right? So it's not like I'm trying to steal it.

The question is, is there a way to get the Driver Manager from Linux Mint and install it in PopOS?

Or maybe you people will just tell me to F-off huh?

Thanks for any answers or reasons that this won't work.
 


CaffeineAddict said:
Hi and welcome!
You need to tell us what driver manager you're talking about?
Mint users might know it but others likely not.
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Hey thanks for the reply. In Linux Mint one of the system utilities is a "Driver Manager" that lets someone see what drivers are in use for any video cards or pcie cards that you may have, and it's just a handy way to update or switch a driver if you need to.
If I wanted to switch my Nvidia driver from the default generic over to the proprietary driver from the manufacture the Driver Manager just goes to the repository and gets it along with any dependent items and installs it all without me doing a lot of terminal commands to accomplish everything. So, a handy thing to have right?

I'd like to import that somehow into PopOS. Or maybe even be able to stick the PopOS kernal into Linux Mint, therefor having the game playability of Pop, and the tools like the Driver Manager of Mint.
 
Hello @ranking1960
Welcome to the Linux.org forum, enjoy!
I don't think you will easily be able to install it on Arch type Distros like CachyOS. But it may work in Pop. you can get the package from here. Mint Driver dowload the tar.gz package you have to use pop's Archive manager to unzip the package in the file fold that will be opened you find the package file
Code: 
mintdrivers_1.8.8_all.deb
That file you should be able to install via pop's package manager or in the terminal with this command
Code: 
sudo dpkg --install mintdrivers_1.8.8_all.deb
if you can't get it to install with the package manager try the terminal it will give you any errors or needed dependencies. Which you may or may not be able to satify on Pop. It's not as easy as you would think to do. Good luck
 
ranking1960 said:
Hi, must have been my attitude this morning,
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G'day ranking1960, Welcome to Linux.org...attitude and all.

(just be careful of the swear police,,....they take a dim view if it is spelled out)

Personally, I love a touch of attitude. Helps the day go quicker/with a smile, and shows downright honesty.

I think @kc1di is on the right track. But what @KGIII says also plays a big part.

I would try what @kc1di has said. If you have Timeshift set up to take snapshots (should anything go wrong,...take a snapshot and give it a try. Having said all that, I do not think it will harm your install, even if it does not work.

I run Linux Mint 22.3 -- Driver manager is a part of that.....it is actually a part of the install...it is labelled Cannot remove.
So bearing this in mind, a bit of attitude accompanied by @kc1di's suggestion may be the go ? !
 
Condobloke said:
G'day ranking1960, Welcome to Linux.org...attitude and all.

(just be careful of the swear police,,....they take a dim view if it is spelled out)

Personally, I love a touch of attitude. Helps the day go quicker/with a smile, and shows downright honesty.

I think @kc1di is on the right track. But what @KGIII says also plays a big part.

I would try what @kc1di has said. If you have Timeshift set up to take snapshots (should anything go wrong,...take a snapshot and give it a try. Having said all that, I do not think it will harm your install, even if it does not work.

I run Linux Mint 22.3 -- Driver manager is a part of that.....it is actually a part of the install...it is labelled Cannot remove.
So bearing this in mind, a bit of attitude accompanied by @kc1di's suggestion may be the go ? !
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Ok, now I have some suggestions to go on and I am going to try it. I did install Timeshift here on Pop!OS and also installed KDE-full to get Plasma and it's working great. Sorry to any System76 people but Cosmic was throwing one of my Steam games start window off sided and I couldn't find out how to fix it, so I installed the KDE and don't have that problem anymore. And besides, I just like KDE Plasma for a WM. If I can get the Driver Manager to work this should be a nice distro to play with. If I break it I can always just log back into Cachy or Mint... That MS pinwheel spinning just gripes my azz.
 
After trying to get the listed file and unpacking it to the folder it was in the terminal says this:

ranking@pop-os:~$ sudo dpkg --install /home/ranking/Downloads/packages/ mintdrivers_1.8.8_all.deb
dpkg: error: archive '/home/ranking/Downloads/packages/' is not a regular file.

I thought maybe I needed to add a path to the file because it said this before:

dpkg: error: cannot access archive 'mintdrivers_1.8.8_all.deb': No such file or directory

I do know it's there because I can see it in Double Commander file manager.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?
 
Ok so I made some progress, I figured out that I actually had to be in the folder where the files were....

ranking@pop-os:~$ cd \Downloads
ranking@pop-os:~/Downloads$ cd \packages
ranking@pop-os:~/Downloads/packages$ sudo dpkg --install mintdrivers_1.8.8_all.deb
Selecting previously unselected package mintdrivers.
(Reading database ... 378252 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mintdrivers_1.8.8_all.deb ...
Unpacking mintdrivers (1.8.8) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mintdrivers:
mintdrivers depends on gir1.2-xapp-1.0; however:
Package gir1.2-xapp-1.0 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package mintdrivers (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mintdrivers
ranking@pop-os:~/Downloads/packages$


So I have to get the " gir1.2-xapp-1.0 " installed and try again?
 
Wait a while...I will mention a few members names here...you dont need to contact them....they will be alerted when next they come online. (keep in mind the international nature of the site...timezones vary widely.)

@osprey

@GatorsFan

@wizardfromoz

@f33dm3bits

@KGIII

That should draw a few responses. Be patient
 
That screenshot is in which OS?

PopOS ?
 
G'day @ranking1960 and welcome to linux.org.

We don't bite a lot of heads off here, at least not without appropriate condiments available.

Moving this to Linux Gaming , where there may be valuable input from players.

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
 
So in other words, you have installed Driver Manager, successfully !

To clarify, that was using @kc1di's suggestions, earlier in this thread.

I mention this to give clarity for anyone else searching for an answer such as this.
 
ranking1960 said:
dpkg: error processing package mintdrivers (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.27-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1.1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mintdrivers
ranking@pop-os:~/Downloads/packages$
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ranking1960 said:
After further thought I'll show more progress if it lets me add screenshots.
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It looks like you have it working though? You can always try running this.
Code: 
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo dpkg --force-all --configure -a
ranking1960 said:
ranking@pop-os:~$ sudo dpkg --install /home/ranking/Downloads/packages/ mintdrivers_1.8.8_all.deb
dpkg: error: archive '/home/ranking/Downloads/packages/' is not a regular file.
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Personally I wouldn't install it like that as you download the deb file manually and since it's not in the repos your PopOS setup is using it will never get updated unless you manually update it. You could probably try adding the official Mint sources to your repo sources.
Code: 
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com zena main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
But it would need to be compatible with the base Ubuntu version PopOS is using and no guarantee that something may not break at some point because it's a Linux Mint specific repo.
 
The pop base and the mint base are the same Ubuntu 24.04. So it should work. But if the driver manager is working for him in Pop Don't see the need to do that.
Just keep in mind that if mint updates it. you'll need to do the process again to get the updated version. Enjoy!
 
It's not something I've ever worried about as I use Mint.

On other Ubuntu based Distros you can install mintstick and the Gnome Disk Utility so why not. :cool:
 
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