Colin Charles Agenda

More PPC fun; FC2 test2

Yay, follow these instructions and you’ll be up and running with FC2 test2 on your ex-Yellow Dog Linux install (so, this applies for PPC heads only). Firstly, download glibc-* from your favourite mirror (I used glibc-2.3.3-18), as well as tzdata-2003d-2, and gd-*. Then: rpm -Uvh glibc-*.rpm --oldpackage tzdata*.rpm gd*.rpm so that glibc gets updated.

Edit the yum.conf file to exclude glibc (otherwise it’ll try for an update), then to save you from dependency hell, remove pine, hfsutils, apt, and Xautoconfig. All that via yum, and finally using rpm, erase the yellowdog-artwork package (passing –nodeps helps), and perform an upgrade via yum.

FC2 test2 is out, and needs extra testing, with lots of SE Linux love! No, I’ve not tried it on PPC yet, but Paul seems to have (or is?).