> I want to use tripwire-2.3.?? and freeswan also on the macppc platform > within Debian. > > Do you see possibilities for realizing that? Yep. Build it from source. You'll need to have a close look at the source for that, it's horribly broken (ends up with utter confusion, unable to tell whether PPC is right or wrong endian). > In Debian-PPC there are no packages+sources for these two programs. Look in non-US. Michael