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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  <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6  %general-entities;
7  %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-powerpc-utils" role="wrap">
11  <?dbhtml filename="powerpc-utils.html"?>
12
13  <title>Powerpc-Utils_&powerpcutils-version;</title>
14
15  <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils">
16    <primary sortas="a-Powerpc-Utils">Powerpc-Utils</primary>
17  </indexterm>
18
19  <sect2 role="package">
20    <title/>
21
22    <para>The Powerpc-Utils package contains a number of utilities for Power
23    Macintoshes and other similar machines.  Most of these utilities are now
24    obsolete, but <command>nvsetenv</command> is needed by <command>ybin</command>
25    to install the bootloader on an hfs partition.</para>
26
27    <segmentedlist>
28      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
29
30      <seglistitem>
31        <seg>GCC, Gzip, Make, and Patch</seg>
32      </seglistitem>
33    </segmentedlist>
34
35  </sect2>
36
37  <sect2 role="installation">
38    <title>Installation of Powerpc-Utils</title>
39
40    <para>This package, originally pmac-utils, has issues with NewWorld macintoshes.
41    The following debian patch fixes these issues and generally updates the package,
42    although it also introduces a bogus warning to update the kernel headers.</para>
43
44<screen><userinput>zcat ../&powerpcutils-patch; | patch -p1</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para>Compile the useful programs:</para>
47
48<screen><userinput>make nvsetenv nvsetvol</userinput></screen>
49
50    <para>Install the package:</para>
51
52<screen><userinput>install -m755 nvsetenv nvsetvol /usr/sbin
53install -m644 nvsetvol.8 /usr/share/man/man8</userinput></screen>
54
55  </sect2>
56
57  <sect2 id="contents-powerpc-utils" role="content">
58    <title>Contents of Powerpc-Utils</title>
59
60    <segmentedlist>
61      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
62
63      <seglistitem>
64        <seg>nvsetenv, nvsetvol</seg>
65      </seglistitem>
66    </segmentedlist>
67
68    <variablelist>
69      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
70      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
71      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
72
73      <varlistentry id="nvsetenv">
74        <term><command>nvsetenv</command></term>
75        <listitem>
76          <para>Manipulate variables in the non-volatile RAM.</para>
77          <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetenv">
78            <primary sortas="b-nvsetenv">nvsetenv</primary>
79          </indexterm>
80        </listitem>
81      </varlistentry>
82
83      <varlistentry id="nvsetvol">
84        <term><command>nvsetvol</command></term>
85        <listitem>
86          <para>Adjust the volume of the boot-up chime on Macintoshes.</para>
87          <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetvol">
88            <primary sortas="b-nvsetvol">nvsetvol</primary>
89          </indexterm>
90        </listitem>
91      </varlistentry>
92
93    </variablelist>
94
95  </sect2>
96
97</sect1>
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