MintPPC

[Roland]

Jeroen Diederen has released a new MintPPC disk image.

Download: mintppc32-live-2023-root.img.gz

If you have already installed it, could you please test with VLC whether the "Qt issue" (keyboard needed for navigating menus etc.) is still present? Thank you!

[mintppc]

Add the following repo for browsers and email clients:

deb http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/wicknix ./

I cannot currently get all the depot indexes updated in Synaptic, there appears an error message. Looks like some depots are not anymore available. Do others have the same problem with MintPPC?

Hi Roland,

I had some issues with invalid signatures because of the old debian-ports repository public key.

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W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/unreleased/InRelease  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG B523E5F3FC4E5F2C Debian Ports Archive Automatic Signing Key (2023) <[email protected]> The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 8D69674688B6CB36

I solved it with installing the new public key.

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apt install debian-ports-archive-keyring

After that I was able to update the indexes.

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┌──(root💀mintppc)-[~]
└─# apt update                                                      
Hit:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
Hit:2 http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/repo unstable InRelease                                                                           
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease                                                                                             
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease
Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease
Hit:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports experimental InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
2284 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Cheers,
Christian

[mintppc]

It would also be handy for you guys to read the homepage of MintPPC, as you get tips and tricks. I update the site frequently.
http://mintppc.nl

[Skateman]

Thanks a lot for the work on MintPPC.. i will try to get it up and running on my Mirari PPC Board.

[mintppc]

I am working on a complete LMDE 6 ported to PPC64. This would be great for Mirari. It has the cinnamon desktop, looks great!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lm ... 4.2456646/

[mintppc]

Thanks a lot for the work on MintPPC.. i will try to get it up and running on my Mirari PPC Board.

Can you please test how well a cinnamon desktop works on your platform?

[Skateman]

MintPPC running on the Mirari board. I do have some issues with the package repositories?

Thanks a lot for the work on MintPPC.. i will try to get it up and running on my Mirari PPC Board.

Can you please test how well a cinnamon desktop works on your platform?

[mintppc]

I never polished the MATE desktop, the default is LXDE. What is the problem wirh the repo? Can you show me the error(s)? I presume you used an image directly copied to your disk to install MintPPC? I am not sure how up to date that image is.
I would like you to install a cinnamon desktop

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apt install task-cinnamon-desktop

and login into a cinnamon session. Is it snappy enough on your machine?

[mintppc]

Add the following repo for browsers and email clients:

deb http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/wicknix ./

I cannot currently get all the depot indexes updated in Synaptic, there appears an error message. Looks like some depots are not anymore available. Do others have the same problem with MintPPC?

Hi Roland,

I had some issues with invalid signatures because of the old debian-ports repository public key.

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W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/dists/unreleased/InRelease  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG B523E5F3FC4E5F2C Debian Ports Archive Automatic Signing Key (2023) <[email protected]> The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 8D69674688B6CB36

I solved it with installing the new public key.

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apt install debian-ports-archive-keyring

After that I was able to update the indexes.

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┌──(root💀mintppc)-[~]
└─# apt update                                                      
Hit:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
Hit:2 http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/repo unstable InRelease                                                                           
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease                                                                                             
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease
Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease
Hit:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports experimental InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
2284 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Cheers,
Christian

Upgrade from this state won’t work. This looks like a system of years ago. Better start fresh.

[Skateman]

Seems like the Rep is not available anymore..

E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/ ... 60_all.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/pool ... owerpc.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/pool ... owerpc.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.66.132 80]

Etc etc...