So I found my develop PowerBook G4 onto which I made MintPPC. I haven’t touched this machine for a long time. I will start posting some updates to what I am doing. I will first update the sources.list in /etc/apt/sources.list. As the keyring has been expired I first need to update to the latest Debian ports archive keyring for sid. It can be found here:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/debian-ports-archive-keyring
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2023.02.01_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2023.02.01_all.deb
sudo apt update
1294 packages can be upgraded. Let’s see if that works:
sudo apt upgrade
Apparently that does not work, as some packages cannot be installed. exfat-utils conflicts, exfatprogs but 1.2.1-2 is to be installed.
sudo apt install exfatprogs
exfat-utils 1.3.0-2 is removed by this action
sudo apt upgrade
1111 upgraded, 81 newly installed , 0 to remove and 183 not upgraded, let’s go…
Day 2
Ok that worked only partially. Lots of broken dependencies. I did the following:
sudo apt upgrade --fix-broken
That also worked partially as some programs are not configured yet, so I issued a
sudo dpkg --configure -a
There are still some programs that cannot be configured due to dependency problems.
I cannot get it configured as I receive the following error:
Perl v5.32.0 required–this is only 5.30.3 stopped at ….
and more packages that cannot be configured due to this Perl version.
apparently there are some packages that require perl 5.30 or lower
sudo apt install perl
the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libclass-xcaccessor-perl : depends perl (< 5.40.4) but 5.36.0-8 is to be installed, same for
libcommon-sense-perl
libpod-constants-perl