MintPPC

[Roland]

I disabled Mate in MintPPC, so you have to install it yourself. The easiest way to install Mate is
sudo apt install task-mate-desktop

Thanks, got it reinstalled now!

But there are still several details which need to be adjusted...

How can I disable totally the password confirmation of mounting partitions (e.g. in Caja)? I have done this several times but cannot anymore remember which file I have to copy from my old installation...

[mintppc]

@Roland Google is your friend, I don’t know this

[MartinW]

@mintppc thank you very much for your efforts on this. I just gave it a quick test and Neovim does indeed install and appears to run.

I will dig into it later but I believe I've hit a permanent roadblock when it comes to my config however, which doesn't surprise me in the slightest! When I copy my config over from one of my other machines, I just get the error on start that the plugin "lazy.nvim" requires Neovim built with LuaJIT which I assume is simply not there for PPC? Maybe it is though - it appears to have been there on Ubuntu at some point at least.

I'll do some work with it this evening though, like I say, it might be an opportunity to get to understand it better and not use a prebuilt config. But it wouldn't overly surprise me if most plugins want LuaJIT.

FWIW, it doesn't surprise me that it didn't initially appear in the applications menu, it's a command line tool after all.

[xeno74]

Instructions for accessing of partitions without password for MintPPC

vi /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.policy

Please change the following policies

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<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system">
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab">
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-unmount-others">

from

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<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>

to

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<allow_active>yes</allow_active>

[mintppc]

This version was not built against luajit, it is switched off for ppc.

I can try to build with it, don’t know if it works.

https://salsa.debian.org/vim-team/neovi ... type=heads

Edit: luajit is available for powerpc, building…
https://buildd.debian.org/status/packag ... &suite=sid

Edit2: I have a new build with luajit enabled. To install:

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sudo apt remove neovim neovim-runtime
sudo apt update
sudo apt install neovim
sudo apt-mark hold neovim

The neovim I uploaded has the same version number, that's why you have to do it this way.

[Roland]

@Roland Google is your friend, I don’t know this

No, Google is an enemy which spies and collects you personal data! .

I use Duckduck instead, but I rarely find with it the exact info I am after...

[Roland]

Instructions for accessing of partitions without password for MintPPC

vi /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.policy

Thanks!!-) That was the info I was missing... No need to do the changes again, I have done that numerous times but did not anymore remember the file in which they are located.

You are much more useful and efficient for us than all the search engines together .

[Roland]

@mintppc

I noticed that both versions of Musescore (2.x and 3.x) are uninstallable due to unsolvable dependencies. It was installable on the very old MintPPC version, though.

There seems to be already over 100 updates available for the latest root image. Is it safe to run those all, or are there some which would be wise to skip?

[mintppc]

You can safely upgrade those packages. We are in the early hours of Forky, so many updates are coming in. I will try to make a recent version of Musescore installable again (2.3.2).

[mintppc]

@mintppc

I noticed that both versions of Musescore (2.x and 3.x) are uninstallable due to unsolvable dependencies. It was installable on the very old MintPPC version, though.

There seems to be already over 100 updates available for the latest root image. Is it safe to run those all, or are there some which would be wise to skip?

I tried to find a solution for musescore but didn't get it to work.

Edit: I fixed the latest musescore2 source. It now builds successfully on amd64. I sent a patch to Debian. I am now trying a powerpc build.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1114631