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  Upgrade an old Debian system installed on an iBook G4 Gugus <nobody@nullpart.net> - 2019-09-20 22:02 +0200
    Re: Upgrade an old Debian system installed on an iBook G4 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2019-09-21 07:35 +0000
      Re: Upgrade an old Debian system installed on an iBook G4 Hugues <hugues@hiegel.fr> - 2019-09-22 11:34 +0200

#77 — Upgrade an old Debian system installed on an iBook G4

Hi there,

I just opened my iBook G4,  starting directly under the Debian which was
already installed some years ago.   Almost everything works fine, except
I  can barely  install/upgrade  anything.  It appears  that  most of  my
sources do not exist anymore ;-(

Are  there  still  some   powerpc  repositories  for  Debian  GNU/Linux,
available somewhere ? 


Any help will be gladly appreciated.

-- 
Br,
Gugus

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#78

Gugus <nobody@nullpart.net> writes:
>
>Hi there,
>
>I just opened my iBook G4,  starting directly under the Debian which was
>already installed some years ago.   Almost everything works fine, except
>I  can barely  install/upgrade  anything.  It appears  that  most of  my
>sources do not exist anymore ;-(

Your distribution is probably so old that it is no longer supported.
But such old distributions are still available through the Debian
archives <https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive.en.html>.

>Are  there  still  some   powerpc  repositories  for  Debian  GNU/Linux,
>available somewhere ?

According to <https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>:

|The last supported release for 32-bit PowerPC is Debian 8 ("jessie").

Jessie is the current oldoldstable release.  As far as I can see,
older releases are available through the archives.

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl                    Some things have to be seen to be believed
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html

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#79

Hi again,

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:

> Gugus <nobody@nullpart.net> writes:
>>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I just opened my iBook G4,  starting directly under the Debian which was
>>already installed some years ago.   Almost everything works fine, except
>>I  can barely  install/upgrade  anything.  It appears  that  most of  my
>>sources do not exist anymore ;-(
>
> Your distribution is probably so old that it is no longer supported.
> But such old distributions are still available through the Debian
> archives <https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive.en.html>.

Aww, thanks !
I  should have  thought about  these, but  I couldn't  find any  evident
pointer on it through the Debian/PowerPC documentation pages.

I saw that jessie was the last supported Debian release for powerpc, but
this  architecture was  not available  anymore  on the  main server  (as
Jessie is still available outside the archives repositories).

At  first, I  struggled  because of  the  jessie-backports, which  seems
completely unusable right now (gpg key is missing on the debian keyring,
Releases is out-of-date, making the repository unusable, etc..).
But using only the single "jessie" seems to do the job.


Thanks a lot !!

I think  I'll still  use jessie  for some  time, but  I should  think of
switching to another  distribution, less dependant on  binaries (such as
gentoo, for example..)

-- 
Hugues Hiegel                                [http://www.hiegel.fr/~hugues/]

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