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 …
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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 …
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 …