Today you can upgrade Arcticfox to version 27.11.0 in MintPPC. Release notes
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Grub problem
I just tried to install MintPPC on a gifted PowerBook G4 (thanks Martin from Austria). I found out the the grub-installer failed to install grub. It is unfortunate that people do not report this. It is possible that MintPPC was not installable for months. If I would have known this, I could have looked at …
Remove mintinput
The package mintinput was written in python back in 2011, which cannot be used anymore with python2. I would recommend any of you using this package to get rid of it as it refrains you from updating your MintPPC system. Please do the following to remove it from the system: sudo dpkg -r mintinput
Older versions of MintPPC
Recently I went through my storage room in the attic and found an old G4 MDD with various versions of MintPPC on it. It was one of the machines I used to test and develop MintPPC on back in the days. If there is interest in say MintPPC 11, I can make a disk image …
isight-firmware-tools
Today I built isight-firmware-tools for ppc64 and added it to the 64-bits repository. Apple Built-in iSight requires firmware that can be extracted from the Mac OS X USBVideo driver. This package provides tools for extracting the firmware from the driver and installing udev rules and tools to automatically load the firmware when needed. I tested …
MintPPC Live
I have got a version of MintPPC32 that runs as a live USB stick! Simply dd the image onto a stick and boot from the stick right into MintPPC. This is a USB image with persistent storage! I have never achieved something like this before. I will update soon.
MintPPC installable again
Just a small update: MintPPC can be installed again. Please read the installation instructions.
Help: server space and bandwidth needed!
As you are probably aware of, installing MintPPC is not always successful. This has to do with the fact that MintPPC is based on Debian sid, which is the unstable version of Debian. Debian stopped releasing stable versions for the powerpc and ppc64 architectures. What we are dealing with nowadays is Debian-ports. What is Debian-ports …
MintPPC has been updated
To have all the new goodies in an existing MintPPC installation do the following (note: it will overwrite your settings):sudo apt updatesudo apt upgradecp -r /etc/skel/.config ~ Logout and login and enjoy! Extra background pictures can be added by installing mint-backgrounds-tricia. Installing MintPPC from scratch will give the updated MintPPC as well. Updates include the …
Software manager
To get red of the Software Manager icon in the menu, do the following. Update mint-lxde-default-settings to version 12.0.11. sudo apt updatesudo apt upgrade For existing users, you have to copy the .config file in /etc/skel into the user´s home folder. If you do it for yourself, it has to be done like this: cp …