As of today, users of MintPPC can install Minitube, a small standalone program to watch youtube videos without the need of flash. I built a 32 and 64 bits version of this program and they are in the wicknix and xeno74 repos. For more information about this program look here.
Monthly Archives: May 2025
Downgrade mesa
Some people report that openGL is no longer working in current Debian sid. For those of you who would like to downgrade mesa to 24.1.6 (reported to still work for powerpc) can do the following. Download the mesa script and perform it as sudo. The script will add an entry for an extra repository hosted …
LMDE 6 PPC
Preparatory work on porting LMDE 6 to the PowerPC arch has begun. The idea behind this project is that this distribution will run on modern PowerPC computers like Mirari and the PowerPC-notebook.LMDE 6 PPC ships with a cinnamon desktop. The porting comprises most packages as found in Linux Mint Debian Edition 6. Some packages will …
CUPS
As CUPS has been broken for a while and a user called Poe Tam asked me to help him, I decided to build a stable version of CUPS for MintPPC32. As of now all users in MintPPC32 can install CUPS successfully. Edit 3 May 2025CUPS can now be safely upgraded completely to 2.4.10 as today …
gtk2-engines-murrine
When booting SeaLion or ArcticFox from the command line it always complains that the program cannot find the theme engine murrine in module_path. The solution to this minor problem is to install gtk2-engines-murrine.
ArcticFox 45.3
Both versions of MintPPC can now upgrade to ArcticFox 45.3. The 64-bits version was compiled by Christian Zigotzky.
SeaLion 33.6.2
MintPPC32 users are now automatically upgraded to SeaLion 33.6.2.