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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.

The only thing that I can think of is to make sure you have xserver-xorg-nouveau and firmware-nvidia-graphics installed.

I will do an installation myself soon to see if something is broken.

Unfortunately not.

You need libffi6:

Hello Charles, What do you see when you start sealion or brassmonkey from the terminal? Do you see error messages? I presume you need some libraries...

It is the problem of MintPPC being based on Debian sid. The system is at times uninstallable as packages in Debian sid are in a broken state. More r...

@eastone I added fs-uae-launcher and fs-uae-arcade to the ppc64 repo. I also built and added a dependency (python3-lhafile).