I am happy to announce that MintPPC64 for G5 can be installed again after a long break. Please read the installation instructions carefully.
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Upgraded browsers
The browsers SeaLion and ArcticFox have been upgraded to the latest version thanks to wicknix, rmottola snd xeno74. To obtain these browsers simply apt update & apt upgrade as they were added to the wicknix repo.
MintPPC64
Now that the installation of MintPPC for G3 and G4 works, it is time to focus my attention to MintPPC64. I have now successfully set up a cross compilation environment on my Asus laptop. The idea is to compile the missing ppc64 packages on this machine and to then upload them into the MintPPC64 repo. …
Unsuccessful installation
Yesterday I tried an installation again myself to see whether it is still possible. At the moment it is not working successfully as some packages are in a broken state. To spare you the frustration I tell you here right now, that you better wait installing MintPPC using the net, i.e. with debian installer images. …
Updated installation instructions
Today I slightly changed the instructions to install MintPPC. Check it out, you might want to change your default display manager into LXDM. I am also working on an update of debian-system-adjustments. The way the package now works is that splash is forced upon the configuration file for grub, therefore forcing splash in grub. Not …
Mintify SeaLion
The more I use SeaLion instead of ArcticFox, the more I start to like it. I think that the browser is actually faster than ArcticFox. I have now found a way to make SeaLion use the gtk theme of the system, in our case the Mint theme. To make this happen one has to download …
SeaLion update manually
I made a mistake in the numbering of SeaLion. If you installed SeaLion before it is version SeaLion 32.4.0 although I called it 32.4.1. I now added the actual 32.4.1 version to the repository but apt will not recognise an update. To install the latest version of SeaLion do the following: sudo apt remove sealion …
New openbox window themes
Considering that the default Mint-X-Openbox theme as it came with Linux Mint LXDE 12 is becoming somehow old, I thought it was a good idea to start looking for some new minty themes. On box-look.org I came across some variations to the default Mint-X-Openbox theme. What I personally don’t like very much about it is …
New Mint cursor themes
After upgrading your packages you will be able to select the latest mint-cursor-themes. You can do this by opening LXappearance from the menu (Customize Look and Feel) and change the cursor to Bibata Modern Classic. You will have to log out from the Mint-LXDE session and log back in to have it working across all …
legacy trusted.gpg keyring
I got the following error message: W: https://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/repo/dists/unstable/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. To fix this problem, do the following: sudo apt-key export D7A223ABAA7CE436 | sudo gpg –dearmour -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mintppc.gpg