diff -up plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in.fix-ppc plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in
--- plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in.fix-ppc	2008-07-08 13:51:02.000000000 -0400
+++ plymouth-0.5.0/scripts/plymouth-populate-initrd.in	2008-07-08 13:51:19.000000000 -0400
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ EOF
     for bin in $BINS ; do
         DEPS=$(get_dso_deps $bin)
         for dep in $DEPS; do
+            mkdir -p ${INITRDDIR}$(dirname $dep)
             install -D -m755 $dep ${INITRDDIR}$(dirname $dep)
         done
     done