Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-08-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola via macports-users
Hi, Eckard Brauer wrote: > Hello, > > just subscribed to the list, and just reactivated an old Powerbook G4, > only beacuse I noticed that Macports is around (usually I'm a Gentoo > Linux user with only few *BSD background, so don't mind me stupid > questions). > > Installing Ports on Sorbet Leopa

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 15, 2022, at 09:10, Hangglider wrote: > > Somehow I managed to kill my system's tar with installing some packages. > No idea where this happened, but I've got continuous "symbol not found" > or the like from dyld with libiconv, so I decided to download, compile > and install latest GNU tar

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-15 Thread wowfunha...@gmail.com
> OTOH I seem to have a little experience with low level debugging from a > former employment, so the project seems manageable somehow for the first > view, under the initial restriction that I'd get some more insight into > both PPC architecture and ABIs and MacOSX low level details (and, of > cou

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-15 Thread Andrew Udvare
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022, 17:24 wrote: > is it possible to provide > some of the system packages with fresh frameworks, most important, SSL? > I'd need that for Mail (even TenFourBird doesn't work) and a working > browser... > > > So for SSL, what you want to do is set up a proxy server that can act

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-15 Thread Hangglider
On 15.07.22 23:23, wowfunha...@gmail.com wrote: is it possible to provide some of the system packages with fresh frameworks, most important, SSL? I'd need that for Mail (even TenFourBird doesn't work) and a working browser... So for SSL, what you want to do is set up a proxy server that can act

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-15 Thread wowfunhappy
> is it possible to provide > some of the system packages with fresh frameworks, most important, SSL? > I'd need that for Mail (even TenFourBird doesn't work) and a working > browser... So for SSL, what you want to do is set up a proxy server that can act as a "man in the middle" for your Mac's S

RE: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-15 Thread Christopher Nielsen
[Sorry for the duplicate e-mail folks, accidentally sent this to the Dev mailing list as well.] While I’m not sure what your options are for mail clients, you do have a good option for web browsing: TenFourFox. It’s what I use on my PowerBook G4, running 10.5. https://www.floodgap.com/software

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-15 Thread Hangglider
On 15.07.22 01:04, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Installing Ports on Sorbet Leopard went fine, but as everything (except App packages) is installed in /var/local, It's /opt/local by default. Sure, my fault. I know, it's not /usr/local as expected, so I see myself trying to look there occasionally - but

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-15 Thread Hangglider
On 15.07.22 02:25, Andrew Udvare wrote: On 14/07/2022 19:04, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I'm not sure if we have any good GUI mail clients or web browsers in MacPorts. These are typically large projects which have been difficult to build. We used to have thunderbird and firefox ports but they were remov

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-14 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 14/07/2022 19:04, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I'm not sure if we have any good GUI mail clients or web browsers in MacPorts. These are typically large projects which have been difficult to build. We used to have thunderbird and firefox ports but they were removed because they were out of date and w

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-14 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jul 14, 2022, at 14:36, Eckard Brauer wrote: > just subscribed to the list, and just reactivated an old Powerbook G4, > only beacuse I noticed that Macports is around (usually I'm a Gentoo > Linux user with only few *BSD background, so don't mind me stupid > questions). Welcome! > Installing

Re: Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-14 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 14/07/2022 15:36, Eckard Brauer wrote: Hello, just subscribed to the list, and just reactivated an old Powerbook G4, only beacuse I noticed that Macports is around (usually I'm a Gentoo Linux user with only few *BSD background, so don't mind me stupid questions). Installing Ports on Sorbet L

Beginner's problems with old hardware

2022-07-14 Thread Eckard Brauer
Hello, just subscribed to the list, and just reactivated an old Powerbook G4, only beacuse I noticed that Macports is around (usually I'm a Gentoo Linux user with only few *BSD background, so don't mind me stupid questions). Installing Ports on Sorbet Leopard went fine, but as everything (except