For MintPPC32 users who would like to upgrade SeaLion from 32.5.0, which is installed by default, one can download it from here.To have SeaLion 33.6.1 working one needs to install an old library (libjpeg.so.8 in /usr/lib/powerpc-linux-gnu/). It can be retrieved here. For MintPPC64 users the upgrade goes automatically.
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Automated installation
Just a few minutes ago an automated installation of MintPPC32 using a preseed file succeeded. I will have to test if the system boots. I will do that tomorrow. It is late here. Booting the system I see a black screen, blinking cursor…I have the fix: boot into recovery mode and do the following:mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so …
sources.list
To have a good working system, one needs to have a good sources.list in /etc/apt. Make sure it looks like this for MintPPC32.link to picture For MintPPC64 it looks like this.link to picture
Sign of life
Hello world, I am still alive. I just fired up MintPPC32 in an emulator to see if it still working. It is an installation of MintPPC32 of more than a year ago and I immediately ran into a small problem: the debian-ports-archive-keyring had expired. So what I did was, install a new version by manually …