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I have to use a ppc Powerbook G4 at the moment. I installed ubuntu-pcc, because in mac OS X I can't get work done effectivly. Using slightly non mainstream hardware is quite eye opening. E.g. in terms of the propitary software out there. One can't use flash, skype and basically any non open source programme, because these companies don't bother releasing a version working with that kind of processor/OS. This makes me even a stronger suporter of software libre.

A long standing bug for mplayer causes mplayer to crash when playing video. Quite a problem for me, because I use mplayer all the time!

Can fix these kind of bugs myself, but a quick, dirty workaround is:

• remove mplayer (apt-get remove mplayer)
• download an old version. (wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/m/mplayer/mplayer_0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8.2_powerpc.deb)
• downgrade (dpkg -i mplayer_0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8.2_powerpc.deb)

now ignore the mplayer package for any further updates.

hope this helps.