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 …
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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.
SeaLion 33.6.1
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.
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 …