It is now possible to install Gnumeric, a spreadsheat program, in MintPPC64. It wasn’t possible for many many years. The fix was easy. I uploaded the fix to the goffice Gnome team and to goffice Debian.
Category Archives: Installation
LXDE still alive
This year saw the release of various new components of the LXDE desktop, as used in MintPPC. See here for an update of all new components.
Debian Trixie released
What’s New in Debian 13 Official announcement Wiki
ArcticFox
ArcticFox has been updated to 46.1 in MintPPC32. There are no ppc64 builds for SeaLion and ArcticFox lately.
Linux Mint Arm64 Live ISO
As I have Linux Mint running bare metal on my Mac Mini M1, I can experiment to build images using the fast processor. At the moment I am playing around with live-build, a Debian tool to create live systems. At the end of the day, after trying a couple of configuations and building some broken …
Linux Mint on M1 bare metal
Hi guys, I was just able to install Debian bare metal on my Mac Mini M1. I then converted it into a Linux Mint Debian Edition! Look at the picture! This is probably the first Linux Mint arm64 running bare metal on a silicon Mac. It is unbelievable how fast this machine is under Mint! …
Linux Mint arm64
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 …
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.