I looking for a web browser for my power mac g5 running debian sid 12. I look all over the web on my pc and i get few hits. Tried to install it with my terminal and i keep getting errors. Either the mirror doesn't have the package or there file it needs and can't get so it doesn't install. The browser that comes with sid can't load pages from the sites because it can't understand them so i get page errors. I tried all browser like arctic fox, fire fox, even chromium. apparently package ain't in the package manger on sid. But online it is in debain sid mirrors but don't show up when you search for them in the package manger. In less i doing something wrong. Thanks for any help i get.
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Resolved browser for debian sid
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Most 3rd party browsers aren't in debians powerpc repos. You have to find them and install them manually.
The last Arctic Fox build for ppc64 is here:
Install with: sudo dpkg -i /path/to/arcticfox-40.1.linux-ppc64-with-altivec.deb
Others (like spiderweb) are just tar archives that you extract and run from the extracted folder (they don't install or create menu entries).
The last Arctic Fox build for ppc64 is here:
Install with: sudo dpkg -i /path/to/arcticfox-40.1.linux-ppc64-with-altivec.deb
Others (like spiderweb) are just tar archives that you extract and run from the extracted folder (they don't install or create menu entries).
There should be a package manager like dselect with a browser category onboard.
When I used Debian Iceweasel was the Firefox substitute.
Still it seems that PPC browsers are dying - probably a use case for qemu?
When I used Debian Iceweasel was the Firefox substitute.
Still it seems that PPC browsers are dying - probably a use case for qemu?
Thank you. I got arctic fox installed with the deb file. But it won't start up. It just crashes. I have to figure something out.
The error i get is this
arcticfox: error while loading shared libraries: libatomic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Hope that helps.
i tried to install it and it can't find the package comes up. i look online and see if i can find it.
If you cannot find the library it's possible you have to compile it yourself.
According to debian it should be available: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libatomic1
Just don't give up - making something work after hours of of tinkering is very rewarding ;-)
According to debian it should be available: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libatomic1
Just don't give up - making something work after hours of of tinkering is very rewarding ;-)
Mac os wouldn't go on the second hard drive either. So i put the mac os on first and linux on second. I can boot into mac os if i hold the option key and select mac os x in open frimware and it boots into mac os just fine. If i let it go it will boot into linux. Funny thing i didn't know. I couldn't figure out why my g5 was running slow. I didn't have matching memory in it. After i fix it. It runs fast now. Thanks for the help.