On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, at 6:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Alessandro! > > On 11/27/20 3:02 PM, Alessandro Gaggioli wrote: > > I am a user of the debian-ports repository and would like to ask for a > > reason > > as to why, when attempting to install a package such as "firefox" to my > > powerpc > > machine, I continue receiving errors telling me that certain dependencies > > are > > unavailable. > > Are you just talking about Firefox or any other package in particular? > > Please list the packages that you are talking about. > > > Are certain programs, such as libevent or libvpx4, simply missing from the > > repositories? Am I doing something wrong here or are these simply not > > present? > > I posted a message on the Debian sparc mailing list explaining this issue [1], > let me know if this helps understanding the problem. > > Adrian > > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html
Thanks for the heads-up Adrian! What exactly do I have to do to add snapshot.debian.org to sources.list? The documentation at that address indicates that I need specify a particular date as part of the sources.list deb line. Is there something I can do to make it generalize over all available dates? I'm particularly interested in firefox, but there are lots of other packages it would be nice to have... Thanks! Rick
