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gfp

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Registered: 2025-12-02

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mirrors for Gnuinos

Hi,
I can´t use "packages.gnuinos.org" for downloading. It does not work.

During installation of Gnuinos it asks me for an other mirror.
Do you know which mirrors exist?

thanks

gfp

prospero

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Registered: 2023-03-26

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

Aitor is probably busy with the name change requested by the FSF. Give him some time and the mirror will be up again.

I am also currently getting the "Release file for...expired" error when running apt update.

gfp

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

thanks very much
gfp

gfp

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

Somehow I managed to install Gnuinos,
and now it starts only in the terminal because it didn´t ask me for installing some desktops and so on.
So how can I install the GUI with at least one desktop, from which I can install afterwards other packages and desktops.

thanks

gfp

prospero

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Registered: 2023-03-26

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

You can install from the runit live ISO of your choice, it will come with the corresponding GUI:
https://www.gnuinos.org/mirror/daedalus/runit/

The sysvinit live ISO also comes with the desktop of your choice, as long as it is XFCE:
https://www.gnuinos.org/mirror/daedalus/sysvinit/

UPDATE: the package mirror is up, I just ran apt update successfully.

Last edited by prospero (Yesterday 21:30:21)

gfp

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Registered: 2025-12-02

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

thanks

I installed Gnuinos again with the netinstaller iso and it connected to the repository.
Everything worked seemingly ok.

But starting Gnuinos there is only the terminal without GUI and the possibility to choose different desktops.
In the terminal I can  use "startx" and it opens LXQT as the only desktop.

There is no internet connection available.
I don´t know all the settings.

That´s why I would like to choose another desktop which can automatically detect printer and ethernet connections.
I also installed KDE and MATE and Gnome desktop.
How can I choose KDE desktop in the terminal?

thanks
gfp

gfp

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Registered: 2025-12-02

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

Hi,

For your information:

I choose the expert install mode because I wanted to install Gnuinos on the 2nd partition.
I thought the automatic install option would overwrite my Guix installation on the 1st partition.

Is there an option within the automatic install option or any other possible installation methods where I can choose the partition?

But nevertheless the installation with the expert mode seemed to be ok. It could be that I didn´t choose an option which would be necessary.
I didn´t include proprietary drivers, I used only free drivers.

thanks

gfp

gfp

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Registered: 2025-12-02

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

it seems the server is down again, no connection

gfp

gfp

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Re: mirrors for Gnuinos

for your information

the
gnuinos-daedalus_2025.10.12_amd64_desktop.iso    2025-10-12 19:11  3.6G 
did not work today. I wanted to install from there.

So I used the
gnuinos-daedalus_2025.10.12_amd64_netinstall.iso 2025-10-12 19:11  417M 
which worked