[SOLVED] Missing items in System Settings?

[almoendaledeb]

I have a Linux Mint Debian Edition running dual-boot with Debian 12 Bookworm; both have Cinnamon DE; however the LMDE shows me 4 items under System Settings|Administration:

• firewall
  Login Window
  Users and Groups
  Software Sources

When I boot into Debian 12 I only see the "Users and Groups". Did I do something wrong during installation?

[FreewheelinFrank]

You didn't do anything wrong. These are entries for Mint packages which do not exist in the Debian repositories.

For example, Software Sources seems to be (not a Mint/Cinnamon user) the Mint package mintsources.

https://github.com/linuxmint/mintsources

A replacement for the software-properties-gtk package.

https://community.linuxmint.com/softwar ... erties-gtk

software-properties-gtk is available in Debian but does not have the same appearance or Mint-specific functions, but it does provide a GUI for configuring software sources in Debian.

Login Window will be a configuration GUI for the display manager. What DM is in use?

Mint seems to uses the gufw firewall, which is available in Debian, although Mint may have customised the configuration options.

Edit: removed duplicate sentence.

[almoendaledeb]

Thank you @FreewheelinFrank but looks like that package
https://community.linuxmint.com/softwar ... erties-gtk
is considered obsolete in Debian.

[almoendaledeb]

Can I install any of the mintsources in Debian? Easily?

[bw123]

No, don't add foreign repos to sources.list on debian. There are several things on plasma I wish were available, but a stable system with potential for future upgrade is the goal. You can give it a try...

* firewall
Login Window
Users and Groups
Software Sources

I can't see that any of these are worth the risk, but it's your system. Let us know how it goes. Make a backup.

Good Luck,
bw

[FreewheelinFrank]

Thank you @FreewheelinFrank but looks like that package
https://community.linuxmint.com/softwar ... erties-gtk
is considered obsolete in Debian.

Err... no it isn't.

[almoendaledeb]

Here's what I see at the bottom of the page:

This package is obsolete and replaced with mintsources.

[FreewheelinFrank]

Here's what I see at the bottom of the page:

This package is obsolete and replaced with mintsources.

Perhaps you should read what you see at the top of the page?

[almoendaledeb]

Well sounds like good advice from all you kind enough to reply. I value a stable system over a "responsive" one, and, for whatever reason, "Login Window" has decided to show up in the System Settings | Administration applet. Which was my main goal, to set up the Login Screen background (greeter) in Debian. Desktop background shares between the two Debian/s as I mount a /home partition that I share with LMDE. Maybe that it isn't advisable, but so far no bad effects I've noticed, just some quirky stuff with chromium Singleton* files preventing browser load.