A selection of laptops at the Computer Recycling Project all running Linux Mint

Linux Mint - libglib2 dependency problem

dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0 – too many errors, stopping Recently we found that a number of our Linux Mint 22.1 installations that sat for awhile without updates ran into an issue processing the update for libglib2.0 when we tried running: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y From what I can tell the issues seems to be that certain dependencies need to be updated and configured before libglib2.0 as most of the errors are similar to: ...

May 20, 2025 · 1 min
A selection of laptops at the Computer Recycling Project all running Linux Mint

Linux Mint computers from The Working Centre's Computer Recycling Project - Part 1

Origins of Linux at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project While I’ve been around The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project for almost 24 years (November, 2001), the origins of Linux at the project predate my arrival. It was in fact the efforts of volunteers who came before me, working on a custom Linux distribution called WCLP (Working Centre Linux Project), that first attracted me to the project. Like Linux Mint, WCLP was Debian-based, with a goal of getting a “usable desktop” on Pentium computers with 16MB of RAM and 500MB hard drives. ...

May 14, 2025 · 9 min
The most recent Linux distributions on our PXE network server

Computer Recycling's PXE Network Server

PXE network installation Most Linux distribution web sites describe the process of how to download an ISO, and create a bootable USB key. While USB keys are great if you’re working on your own computer, when you need to scale up and install across a number of systems there are more efficient ways of deploying Linux. One of those ways is to network boot, and install from a PXE (Preboot Execution Environment) server. ...

April 1, 2025 · 6 min