On gnome-ppp gtk-ppp kppp
Tara MATE
chris@TaraMATE-WD:~$ apt policy gnome-ppp gtk-ppp kppp
gnome-ppp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.3.23-1.2ubuntu2
Version table:
0.3.23-1.2ubuntu2 500
500
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive bionic/universe amd64 Packages
kppp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4:17.08.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
4:17.08.3-0ubuntu1 500
500
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive bionic/universe amd64 Packages
Skipped forward in time to
Tricia Cinnamon, and
chris@TriciaCinn-HDD:~$ apt policy gnome-ppp gtk-ppp kppp
gnome-ppp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.3.23-1.2ubuntu2
Version table:
0.3.23-1.2ubuntu2 500
500
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive bionic/universe amd64 Packages
kppp:
Installed: 4:17.08.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 4:17.08.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 4:17.08.3-0ubuntu1 500
500
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive bionic/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Then to
Ulyana Cinnamon
where
chris@Ulyana-Cinnamon-SSD:~$ apt policy gnome-ppp gtk-ppp kppp
chris@Ulyana-Cinnamon-SSD:~$
So the last of the Mints which supported two out of three of the packages was Tricia Cinnamon.
Ulyana was released June 2020.
From Focal GNOME (20.4) released April 2020
chris@FocalGNOME-SSD:~$ apt policy gnome-ppp gtk-ppp kppp
N: Unable to locate package gnome-ppp
N: Unable to locate package gtk-ppp
N: Unable to locate package kppp
wvdial however, is still available in Uma
chris@UmaCinnamon-SSD:~$ apt policy wvdial
wvdial:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.61-5
Version table:
1.61-5 500
500
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/archive focal/universe amd64 Packages
What this tells us is that Mint (and by inference Ubuntu) still supports the console-based wvdial for dialup modem users, but does not regard having the GUI frontends available, in their priorities.
An alternative might include dpkgs.org
MX-19 KDE
chris@
MX19KDE:
~
$ apt policy wvdial gnome-ppp gtk-ppp kppp
wvdial:
Installed: 1.61-5
Candidate: 1.61-5
Version table:
*** 1.61-5 500
500
http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gnome-ppp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.3.23-2.1mx19
Version table:
0.3.23-2.1mx19 500
500
http://mx.debian.nz/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages
kppp:
Installed: 4:17.08.3-1
Candidate: 4:17.08.3-1
Version table:
*** 4:17.08.3-1 500
500
http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
N: Unable to locate package gtk-ppp
antiX
[email protected]:~
$ apt policy wvdial gnome-ppp gtk-ppp kppp
wvdial:
Installed: 1.61-5
Candidate: 1.61-5
Version table:
*** 1.61-5 500
500
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
500
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gnome-ppp:
Installed: 0.3.23-2.1
Candidate: 0.3.23-2.1
Version table:
*** 0.3.23-2.1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
kppp:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4:17.08.3-1
Version table:
4:17.08.3-1 500
500
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
N: Unable to locate package gtk-ppp
And on DE choices antiX
[email protected]:~
$ apt policy cinnamon
cinnamon:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4.8.6-2
Version table:
4.8.6-2 500
500
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
3.8.8-1 500
500
http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages