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Minotor never reached a stable release. Every build it ever shipped was an alpha, and this site hosts no binaries — only pointers to where the authors put them.

What the project offered

Platform	In 2013–2017	Today
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint	An apt repository at `debian.minotor.org`, and a direct `.deb` (the October 2013 build was `0.0-20131010`)	Gone. Later builds moved to a Launchpad PPA, below.
Windows	An alpha installer from `download.minotor.org`	Gone; no copy survives. Build from source.
macOS	No binaries were ever published	Build from source.

Ubuntu PPA

From 2017 the README pointed Ubuntu users to a PPA maintained by Romuald Conty:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:neomilium/minotor
sudo apt update
sudo apt install minotor

The PPA still exists, but its last builds — version 0.0-2, published between February and November 2017 — cover only Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04, 16.04, 16.10 and 17.04. There is nothing for any release since, so on a current Ubuntu apt update fails on the missing release file.

From source

The source is at github.com/minotor-org/minotor. The final README builds it with Qt 5:

git clone https://github.com/minotor-org/minotor.git
cd minotor
sudo apt install qt5-default librtmidi-dev libqt5extserialport-dev
qmake
make

If RtMidi is not packaged for your system, the README's alternative uses the copy bundled in the repository, built without JACK support — install libasound2-dev in place of librtmidi-dev.

Editor's note, 2026 qt5-default was dropped from Debian 11 and Ubuntu 21.04, so the apt install line above fails on anything newer. The package only set Qt 5 as the default for qmake; qtbase5-dev provides the same headers and tools. On macOS the last commit builds against Qt 5.15 with a two-line patch — see the build test. A current Linux distribution has not been tested yet.

For LED hardware

To drive a WS2801 matrix from an Arduino, Minotor talks to the team's own firmware, LEDuino. The build guide goes from bare pixels to a flashed board.