Recently I ported Linux Mint Xia, running in a Debian trixie base, to arm64. I am working on a solution to get Linux Mint running in a VM like Parallels and UTM on silicon macs with almost native speed. A test version is ready and being tested. In the future, I will sell disk images …
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Automated installations fail
For some reason, my repository pages are now redirected to ssl, which will lead to a failure in automated installations. I don’t know how to fix this at the moment. Please install MintPPC manually. It is very likely that my hosting provider now redirects all traffic via ssl. Previously, the repo pages were set to …
Be aware with next upgrade
Please be aware that during a next upgrade in your system, Debian tries to install a new version of Grub. The installation of Grub-ieee1275 will lead to a corrupted boot partition. Immediately after installation make sure you have hfsprogs installed, if not:sudo apt install hfsprogsThen repair the boot partition:sudo fsck.hfs /dev/sda2See here. If you don’t …
Minitube
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.
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.