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Did you get it sorted out?

I will add those required packages and then we will see if you can downgrade mesa. I will do it later today, I will tell you when it’s done. Edit: i...

Try again, I think I fixed it. The mesa problem should be gone now, as well as the sylpheed problem.

I will replace sylpheed with claws-mail. It is another lightweight email client which is still supported in Debian sid.

@eastone mesa can’t be built right now on ppc64 (since a long time, I will look into this):

@eastone thanks for testing! I just noticed that Debian removed sylpheed from sid, therefore it can’t be installed anymore. I will remove sylpheed fro...

It is clear that this old version of firmare-b43-installer no longer works as the site where the firmware is loaded from no longer works. The recent...

@charles I can’t help you if you don’t paste the output.

@charles There should be a working firmware-b43-installer in the repo.

I tried MintPPC64 but its installation fails. I don't understand yet why this is happening.

Installation of MintPPC32 works, I encountered no problems. I used the 11-11-2025 iso by the way, but you can probably also use the april 1 image.

@charles Ok I will take another look later today

I added a fix, which I can't test yet. If you want, you can try a MintPPC32 installation on your G4. Please tell me if it works, then I apply the fix ...

I now understand why the installation fails. I will try to fix it for powerpc first.