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.
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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 …
XFCE4
Since recently it is possible to run Linux Mint XFCE on top of LXDE. To install this one has to first install MintPPC. Then:sudo apt install task-xfce-desktop xfce4-xapp-status-plugin mint-xfce-default-settingscp -r /etc/skel/.config /home/your_user_name Logout and login into the XFCE session. MintPPC XFCE is available for G4 and G5.
SeaLion update
Wicknix released SeaLion 32.5.1. Note that this package has been built in an old Linux environment. To get it working in MintPPC32 I had to do the following: install libffi7 from snapshots:wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20210222T080642Z/pool-powerpc/main/libf/libffi/libffi7_3.3-6_powerpc.debsudo dpkg -i libffi7_3.3-6_powerpc.deb install multiarch-support from snapshotswget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20190502T022320Z/pool-powerpc/main/g/glibc/multiarch-support_2.28-10_powerpc.debsudo dpkg -i multiarch-support_2.28-10_powerpc.deb install libjpeg8 from snapshotswget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20141009T042436Z/pool/main/libj/libjpeg8/libjpeg8_8d1-2_powerpc.debsudo dpkg -i libjpeg8_8d1-2_powerpc.deb I will add …
systemd-less and temporary installation instructions
For the people who would like to try booting with sysvinit instead of systemd I wrote a page dedicated to this. The instructions can also be used to install MintPPC under the current circumstances as debian-installer is broken: grub installation fails again. With the instructions of systemd-less installation one can also install MintPPC by using …
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Sysvinit – no systemd
Lately I have been experimenting with a Debian sid ppc64 system without systemd. Systemd is the default nowadays in Debian. In the old days all ‘services’ or ‘daemons’ were managed by init scripts. I was able to install sysvinit and to dump systemd from a base Debian install. I then installed a desktop (LXDE). It …
Failed installation
I tried to install MintPPC and Debian a couple of times with the snapshot installer images of June 18 2023 as is prescribed in the instructions. At the end of the installation, the installation of grub fails. I tried 4 times to make sure. Don’t do an installation now as it will fail 100%.
Preferences for apt
I amended the mintsystem package to include apt pinning settings for lxpanel, lxpanel-data and the airport drivers. They will be installed in /etc/apt/preferences.d/99-mintppc.pref. From now on these packages will not be automatically removed by upgrading from Debian sources.