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MintPPC project

I tried to start them from terminal just using the app name, sea lion, arctic fox, got a message the command not found. So I went to the properties of each app and used the app's path from the Desktop tab. Arcticfox gave me a GTK error concerning a theme engine. Sealion talked about that libffi file not being accessible. I did implement the libffi8 to libffi6 action from the install instructions. I haven't tried to implement the Mint theme to Sealion since I can't even get it too start. I'm sure I'm missing something, what is the question.
 
MacMaverick855 said:
you do realize I'm typing this on another computer as I have no way to access macrumors from the G5:

(arctic fox:1888): Gtk-WARNING (time stamp) Unable to locate them engine in module_path: "murrine"

this is repeated about 8 times
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I am aware. This error message does not do any harm. AF should load though, nothing happens ?
 
where did you download the libffi6_3.2.1-9_ppc64.deb file? From there you do:
Code: 
sudo dpkg -i libffi6_3.2.1-9_ppc64.deb
 
Jeroen Diederen said:
I am aware. This error message does not do any harm. AF should load though, nothing happens ?
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nope, arctic fox never appears, I forgot to mention I logged into MacRumors using sealion. Gotta call it a night but if you find out something about AF, post it here, I'll see it and one huge thank you for your patience and help!
MM855
 
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For AF you need libicu71:
Code: 
sudo apt install libicu71
but it should already be installed as it comes as a dependency with AF.
 
Jeroen Diederen said:
For AF you need libicu71:
Code: 
sudo apt install libicu71
but it should already be installed as it comes as a dependency with AF.
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This is the message I get when doing the above command:

~$ sudo apt install libicu71
[sudo] password:
Package libicu71 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Error: Package 'libicu71' has no installation candidate

Which tells me it didn't load with Arcticfox, otherwise it would have (maybe) indicated it was the newest version. It also explains why AF isn't working.

What might be another source?

Thanks,
MM855
 
Every time I do an install or upgrade I get the following error:

Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Not sure why, also having trouble getting wifi to work, still working on that though.

This is a message I get when trying to get firmware-b43-installer:

Saving to: ‘broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2’

broadcom-wl-5.100.1 [ <=> ] 114.43K --.-KB/s in 0.03s

2026-02-27 20:07:30 (3.70 MB/s) - ‘broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2’ saved [117175]

Deleting old extracted firmware...
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
dpkg: error processing package firmware-b43-installer (--configure):
old firmware-b43-installer package postinst maintainer script subprocess failed
with exit status 2
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.1-1)…
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-b43-installer
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm pretty sure I have the Mint PPC repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list, there are also a couple of debian repos in there too.
I don't recall having this much trouble getting airport to work the last time I installed MintPPC64.

That's the latest, I did install the Mint theme in Sealion. It's much better that the default.

MacMaverick855


MM855
 
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