link broken for lubuntu 16.04.x ppc image

[Josep Gonzalez-Calvet]

The link that appears in the pages of Lubuntu 16.04.x for powerpc and Mac doesn't work. The page is:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/

In this page, when you select the link "Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) alternate install image" you are redirected to this address:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/lubuntu-16.04-alternate-powerpc.iso

but the server answer is:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at cdimage.ubuntu.com Port 80

Could you address this issue or give me an alternative location of this Lubuntu release?

Thank you for your help

Josep Gonzalez-Calvet

[Andreas (kagelaris)]

I Face the same problem. I'm struggling 3 days now, link for "lubuntu 16.04.x ppc image" is broken. No other source can be found

[Oliver Kästner (okaestne)]

Same here for all links. The magnet/torrent links on the main website (https://lubuntu.net/downloads/) still work for me though.

[Tom Reynolds (tomreyn)]

The main website is https://lubuntu.ME though

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

No PowerPC image was released for Lubuntu in recent 16.04 point releases. The URL it points to suggests that there had been a powerpc image released as part of the initial 16.04 GA release, but none thereafter. (I can't easily check the history to confirm that it was released as part of 16.04.0.)

Regardless, as part of the subsequent point releases, this image was removed from the server and archived, so if the Lubuntu community haven't separately downloaded it and published it somewhere for consumption, it is non-trivial to put it back online. Also, the fact that no point release updates for this image were made indicates the Lubuntu community does not actually support powerpc (and 16.04 was released 5 years ago, and there is officially no security support for powerpc).

So I have resolved this bug by removing the dead download link.

[Hazel Malloy (hazelmalloy)]

You can now get the iso from this archive:
https://archive.org/details/lubuntu-16.04-desktop-powerpc

[Josep Gonzalez-Calvet (pepgc)]

Thank you very much, Hazel.
The link works OK. I will burn a DVD. I hope it works and that my old G5 can be active for a while longer.

[Hazel Malloy (hazelmalloy)]

Pls let us know if yours works, Josep. I burned a DVD yesterday and
tried it on my old PowerBook G4 (currently running Lubuntu 14.04) but
there were issues. Sometimes the installer froze (at various of the
early preferences screens), and sometimes the disk did not boot all
the way to the live o/s. So if yours works, Josep, then I got a bad
burn or a bad download and can try again.

On 9/13/21, Josep Gonzalez-Calvet <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you very much, Hazel.
> The link works OK. I will burn a DVD. I hope it works and that my old G5 can
> be active for a while longer.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1905188
>
> Title:
> link broken for lubuntu 16.04.x ppc image
>
> Status in Ubuntu CD Images:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> The link that appears in the pages of Lubuntu 16.04.x for powerpc and
> Mac doesn't work. The page is:
>
> https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/
>
> In this page, when you select the link "Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC
> (POWER5) alternate install image" you are redirected to this address:
>
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.04/release/lubuntu-16.04-alternate-
> powerpc.iso
>
> but the server answer is:
>
> Not Found
>
> The requested URL was not found on this server.
> Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) Server at cdimage.ubuntu.com Port 80
>
> Could you address this issue or give me an alternative location of
> this Lubuntu release?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Josep Gonzalez-Calvet
>
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