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  • Installation on an iBook G4

    From Johannes Brakensiek@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 1 23:20:01 2022
    Hello everyone,

    I installed the CD image from snapshot 2022-03-28 [1], which I burned
    using my PowerMac G5 [2]. Installation just went very fine.

    Thanks a lot to Adrian for making this happen!

    After installation I encountered some issues which could easily be
    solved by applying some quick and dirty fixes, maybe.

    First packages firmware-b43-installer[3] and and bw43-fwcutter[4] were
    missing, which I then got from the linked snapshot. Would it be
    possible to place these packages in the unreleased repo to make them
    available easily?

    Then I wanted to set up wifi, but network-manager-gnome was not
    available due to libnma not being built on powerpc (32 bit) due to
    libgtk-4-1 not available on powerpc. The correct way probably would be
    to fix building of GTK4 on powerpc (I don't know why it fails), but I
    was able to build the libnma package after removing all dependencies to
    GTK4.

    In case we would like to provide such "hacked" packages to powerpc port
    users via the unreleased repo, what would be the correct way to achieve
    that?

    In any case: After building the libnma package manually I was able to
    install necessary packages to configure wifi and bluetooth via GUI
    (MATE) easily.

    Desktop now looks quite similar to this screenshot[5] which I'm quite
    happy about.

    So far.

    Johannes


    [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2022-03-28/debian-11.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
    [2] Tell me if you need a CD. My PowerMac will happily burn one I'm
    going to ship anywhere in Europe.
    [3] https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170531T212258Z/pool/contrib/b/b43-fwcutter/firmware-b43-installer_019-3_all.deb
    [4] https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170531T212258Z/pool/contrib/b/b43-fwcutter/b43-fwcutter_019-3_powerpc.deb
    [5] https://fosstodon.org/@lazarus/108208319638351436

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Johannes Brakensiek on Mon May 2 10:00:01 2022
    Hello Johannes!

    On 5/1/22 23:15, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
    First packages firmware-b43-installer[3] and and bw43-fwcutter[4] were missing, which I then got from the linked snapshot. Would it be
    possible to place these packages in the unreleased repo to make them available easily?

    Hmm, I actually built and uploaded the package manually for powerpc and
    ppc64. I'll give it another try later this week.

    Adrian

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