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.