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Monthly Archives: September 2019
Installer
What a journey it is to get MintPPC automatically installed. Yesterday I finally made a breakthrough. The installer is now able to detect my local repository, the Debian-ports repository, to add the required keys and to start downloading and installing all required packages to get to the MintPPC desktop. There is still one problem, which …
Manual installation MintPPC
I will give some guidance on how to manually install the Mint layer on top of Debian sid. Debian sid can be installed as described in my other post. There is a glitch in video now. We need to fix that first. Boot the system in recovery mode and do the following: mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so.bak …
Installation woes
For the past couple of days I have been trying to get MintPPC installed in an easy way onto my iBook. I found out that using a preseed file with a repository elsewhere won’t work as the modern Debian netinstaller does not accept repositories as the installer environment does not have gpg to its disposal. …
Configuration of Mint-LXDE
Wow, finally I got ‘mint-lxde-default-settings’ working. This package deals with all tweaks to get a Mint-LXDE desktop. The package will provide newly created users with a beautiful looking desktop, which is already quite similar to Linux Mint. I think I have the most difficult part behind me now. Soon, volunteers may start testing MintPPC. For …
Installing Debian sid LXDE
For those of you who are willing to go down the rabbit hole, I hereby present a quick guide to get Debian sid with an LXDE desktop installed reliably on PowerPC based computers. Quick installation guide Install an lxde-desktop with the latest sid image:G3/G4: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-04-01/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.isoG5: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-04-01/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.isoolder working images:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso and the corresponding pp64 variant at the …
Welcome to MintPPC
Ok world, here I am again. After a long break I am working on MintPPC again. I am trying to get Debian sid with an LXDE desktop transformed into a pleasant minty experience. I have to admit beforehand that installing MintPPC sid will not be as easy as in the past. Please stay tuned. Regards,Jeroen …