Today I got a Pinebook Pro and installed Armbian with Cinnamon onto it.
It’s great, except I really love the look of Linux Mint, and there are no Mint themes available.
I did a quick check and found that the mint-themes package was listed as being compatible with all architectures (which makes sense, it’s just theme files, no executables or other architecture-dependent files), so I figured getting this onto my Pinebook would be trivial: add the Mint repos, and install the mint-themes package.
Except…the Linux Mint apt repos do not publish any arm64 packages in the Release, so apt skips the repo, thus preventing me from being able to install mint-themes.
Now, I could just download the debs directly and install them, but they do get periodically updated, and I’d prefer those updates to come through apt rather than have to manually check.
I saw aptly recommended as a program to let you easily do a partial repo mirror, but unless I’ve missed something in the documentation, it will not let me launder ia32/amd64 packages into an armhf/arm64 repo.
So my question is: is there a way to get aptly to do what I want it to do? If not, is there anything that can mirror (architecture-neutral) packages from ia32/amd64-only repos into armhf/arm64 repos?
I’m actively looking through alternatives, but I have no prior experience managing apt repos, so any help is welcome.