Portal:PowerPC/News

Leap 15.2 PowerPC available on July 2020

• available in Leap page ; in Ports aarch64/ppc64le tab.
• known bugs at install time for Leap 15.2 ppc64le:
  • boo#1174166 unable to install on bare-metal.

Leap 15.1 PowerPC available on May 2019

• available in Leap page ; in Ports aarch64/ppc64le tab.
• known bugs at install time for Leap 15.1 ppc64le:
  • boo#1132748 invalid url from "Additional Online repositories" ; so answer "No" when requested to use them.
  • PR#187 empty source repo; to be changed to http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/15.1/repo/oss/

Leap 15.0 PowerPC

• build never completed, so not available from legacy page but directly from download page

Leap 42.3 PowerPC available on 28th July 2017

• DVD and NET isos accessible from download page

Docker trial ppc64le Tumbleweed and Leap 42.3

• I just successfully tried to install docker in a Tumbleweed ppc64le guest and used it to pull and run the ppc64le/opensuse images available from Docker repository.

[michel@twppc64le:~]
$sudo zypper install docker
$sudo systemctl enable docker
$sudo systemctl start docker
$usermod -a -G docker michel
===
[michel@twppc64le:~]
$docker pull ppc64le/opensuse
$docker pull ppc64le/opensuse:tumbleweed
$docker pull ppc64le/opensuse:42.3
$docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
ppc64le/opensuse    tumbleweed          74b5d7605cbf        39 hours ago        148MB
ppc64le/opensuse    42.3                30109b769c78        39 hours ago        149MB
ppc64le/opensuse    latest              30109b769c78        39 hours ago        149MB
===
$docker run ppc64le/opensuse:tumbleweed cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20171127"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20171127"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20171127"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
===
$docker run ppc64le/opensuse:42.3 cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="42.3"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="42.3"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.3"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.3"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"