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MintPPC project

Were you able to fix it? It’s raining today where I’m at and day off from work so I can test if you fixed it.
 
I am still working on it. It requires more work than I thought. Many more programs are no longer available in debian-ports (removed from sid or it cannot be built by buildd) so I have to either compile them myself or chose not to install them. Also other problems and tweaks are necessary. The installation works now, but not everything I want gets installed. I will continue the battle. I will give another update soon. The end result should be similar as I how MintPPC looked before but now in a LMDE6 (Faye) environment, which by the way was just officially released. MintPPC will however stay with LXDM and LXDE as cinnamon is a bridge too far for our old Macs.
 
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I would not waste your time installing this with the latest netinstall on 32bit it’s broken both lxqt and lxde. Attached is picture showing some of the issues…again it does this wether you use the latest netinstall with Linux mints pressed and stock repos or just simply installing it vanilla with default repos…the lxqt and lxde are broken on the latest trixie 13
 
Also a majority of the apps preinstalled with Linux pressed and vanilla do not open either…simply does not open or gives an error…
 
I would strongly urge you to take down the 32bit netinstall preseed link….your theme and most of the additional apps are more broken with your preseed then just installing regular Debian. It’s not even useable at all….
 
Ontop of that icons are dispersing and glitching on the desktop and I can where your tried fixing the issue with the task bar by increasing the number of spaces as a workaround but the panel is doing what it’s doing because one of the desktop chain is broken…the software update amongst other applications in the image simply do not open. Thanks for trying though I appreciate the work!
 
Strange, I did a succesful installation just a few days ago. One obvious thing I see is that you don’t follow instructions as you are not even logged into a mint-lxde session.
 
Yeah not sure if you move icons around in the desktop they disappear and the taskbar still become missing if you have a lot of windows open…do you know how to get audio working in PowerBook g4? I tried installing alsa and use the aoa stuff in modules but it’s still not working. Is there something aimdditional I need to do other then what’s in the Debian wiki here in the forums?
 
Not working as of this morning 6AM est….theres quite a few broken packages so it doesn’t surprise me…
 
Latest one released in June….the most recent image…it installs fienix and Debian just fine…but mint cuts out half way through I should’ve looked the log but I just needed this up and running quickly before work….
 
I managed to install Debian 12 without bumping it up to trixie and then applying your repo and it worked on Debian 12…..

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In the future, if anyone wants to know how to do this, it is super easy. Download grubfix32.sh from repo.powerprogress.org/debian/install/grubfix32.sh and copy it to a USB flash drive formatted as FAT or HFS. Use the Debian CD to boot into the rescue mode, mount the root partition (for me, it was sda3), execute a shell prompt, and run 'chmod u+x' to make the script executable. Then, run the script './grubfix32.sh' and point it to your boot partition, which, for me, looks like this: './grubfix32.sh /dev/sda2'. Let it do its thing, reboot, and then you can proceed to edit your sources.list and add whatever snapshots you want, as long as they are newer than the image you downloaded to do the install. For example, the DVD image I used was generated in June, so I would not be able to use a repo from December of the previous year or use mintppc source to install his base packages.


My fix above is the only way I’ve been able to install it….hoenstly because of trixie I would if you can create installer images based Debian 12 which will give the user the ability to upgrade and just include a readme stating if you go beyond Debian 12 you may experience broken packages or services….just my two cents…your installer images are rock solid as I used it as well to try it out and worked perfectly..but the more and more Debian generates nightly package builds the more I have a feeling are going to broken. With this method it allows the user to be on a snapshot so your less likely to have something broken and also gives the user a choice between bleeding edge and having something that’s a little more stable…
 
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