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[d78696a]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-powerpc-utils" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="powerpc-utils.html"?>
10
11 <title>Powerpc-Utils_&powerpcutils-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils">
14 <primary sortas="a-Powerpc-Utils">Powerpc-Utils</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Powerpc-Utils package contains a number of utilities for Power
21 Macintoshes and other similar machines. Most of these utilities are now
22 obsolete, but <command>nvsetenv</command> is needed by <command>ybin</command>
23 to install the bootloader on an hfs partition.</para>
24
25 <segmentedlist>
26 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
27
28 <seglistitem>
29 <seg>GCC, Gzip, Make, and Patch</seg>
30 </seglistitem>
31 </segmentedlist>
32
33 </sect2>
34
35 <sect2 role="installation">
36 <title>Installation of Powerpc-Utils</title>
37
[5d9d2e5]38 <para>This package, originally pmac-utils, has issues with
39 NewWorld Macintoshes. The following patch fixes these issues
40 and generally updates the package:</para>
[d78696a]41
[ae0cfa3]42<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&powerpcutils-patch;</userinput></screen>
[d78696a]43
[5d9d2e5]44 <para>Compile the needed programs:</para>
[d78696a]45
46<screen><userinput>make nvsetenv nvsetvol</userinput></screen>
47
48 <para>Install the package:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>install -m755 nvsetenv nvsetvol /usr/sbin
[d2407ab9]51install -m644 nvsetenv.8 nvsetvol.8 /usr/share/man/man8</userinput></screen>
[d78696a]52
53 </sect2>
54
55 <sect2 id="contents-powerpc-utils" role="content">
56 <title>Contents of Powerpc-Utils</title>
57
58 <segmentedlist>
59 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
60
61 <seglistitem>
62 <seg>nvsetenv, nvsetvol</seg>
63 </seglistitem>
64 </segmentedlist>
65
66 <variablelist>
67 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
68 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
69 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
70
71 <varlistentry id="nvsetenv">
72 <term><command>nvsetenv</command></term>
[aeb56828]73 <listitem>
74 <para>Manipulate variables in the non-volatile RAM.</para>
75 <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetenv">
76 <primary sortas="b-nvsetenv">nvsetenv</primary>
77 </indexterm>
78 </listitem>
[d78696a]79 </varlistentry>
80
81 <varlistentry id="nvsetvol">
82 <term><command>nvsetvol</command></term>
[aeb56828]83 <listitem>
84 <para>Adjust the volume of the boot-up chime on Macintoshes.</para>
85 <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetvol">
86 <primary sortas="b-nvsetvol">nvsetvol</primary>
87 </indexterm>
88 </listitem>
[d78696a]89 </varlistentry>
90
91 </variablelist>
92
93 </sect2>
94
95</sect1>
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