Compiling Classic Thunderbird Client Epyrus for PPC64 [UPDATE 3] - It works!

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Long time ago I found out that someone started a project for Classic Thunderbird, because they were not really happy about the newly established way it goes from then. And on PowerPC based Linux, actual Thunderbird will not build because

Warnung: Kann "libicui18n.so=74-64" nicht auflösen (eine Abhängigkeit von "thunderbird")

libiciu cannot be built. There are some alternatives like Claws-Mail but this is really old, feels really old. It works but it is not in the actual repo of Power ARCH but you can compile it easy by yourself. Anyways. Because Epyrus is based on older classic Thunderbird, there is a change I can compile it on actual Arch with Python 2.7. I give it a try.

Claws-Mail 4.3.1 ArchPOWER Linux successfully compiled for PPC64

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Due to the lack of a good graphical email client ¹ for my Arch POWER Linux Distro (Arch Linux for PowerPC), I tried several things and ended up with claws-mail. But it is not installable or not existing in the repos of pacman for powerpc. So I dcided to compile it by myself.

Claws-Mail 4.3.1 just compiled successfully on my Powermac G5.

claws-mail first window, first start

Email on Apfel hammer

Compiling Classic Thunderbird Client Epyrus for PPC64 [UPDATE 3] - It works!

Claws-Mail 4.3.1 ArchPOWER Linux successfully compiled for PPC64