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#1 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Can't get latest kernel. 403: access denied. » 2023-12-16 22:51:14

Just wondering... can new kernel (6.1.0-15) that is available be installed on Devuan 3?

#2 Desktop and Multimedia » Issue with new Thunderbird 115 Supernova and Devuan » 2023-12-16 22:27:06

James1138
Replies: 0

Help, I am out of my league!! I am running Devuan 3 and upgraded my Thunderbird email client to version 115 called SuperNova - only to find that I no longer can install any add-ons/extensions from the main Thunderbird website.

No matter what add-on I choose - Thunderbird 115 shows the box "verifying and installing" in the upper right corner and then does nothing more. As a test...  I purged Thunderbird totally from my computer and then manually searched and deleting all related folders. Afterwards reinstalled Thunderbird 115 from scratch - only to find the same results. In fact - I found out any Thunderbird version up to 97 allows installation of add-ons without issue. Any newer Thunderbird versions do not.

I even tried skipped importing old data and re-setup all my email accounts from scratch during re-installation!!

I must use the newer 115 version because Hotmail/Outlook web has some strange OAUTH2 authorization that prevent me using earlier versions of Thunderbird with my Hotmail account. Also version 115 has fixed the old issue where RSS feeds from Google News were flagged invalid.

Is anyone else having the same issue - and if so.. have people found a workaround??

Thanks in advance...
James
Indiana

#3 Hardware & System Configuration » Bluez not connect to adapter - but everything seems ok via terminal » 2023-10-09 20:03:47

James1138
Replies: 0

Sorry to all if I posted this before.
I use Devuan Beowulf. I upgraded Bluez & Blueman in additiion to updated kernel and seen that things are unlocked (as far as I can tell). Bluetooth hardware is seen via terminal but when I "click" on Bluez and then "setup new device" to connect the adapter to use my bluetooth headset - nothing happens.
I also installed "BlueWho", which also sees the adapter and also installed Pulseaudio-module-bluetooth. Any suggestions on getting Bluez to connect to adapter.

user@******:~$ bluetoothctl
Agent registered
[bluetooth]# show
Controller 78:DD:08:C1:4B:1F (public)
    Name: BlueZ 5.54
    Alias: BlueZ 5.54
    Class: 0x000c010c
    Powered: yes
    Discoverable: yes
    DiscoverableTimeout: 0x00000000
    Pairable: yes
    UUID: Headset AG                (00001112-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: Audio Sink                (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: Audio Source              (0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: A/V Remote Control        (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    UUID: Headset                   (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
    Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d0536
    Discovering: no

[bluetooth]#

[    4.145658] usb 2-2: Product: ThinkPad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate II
[    5.964525] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked
[    7.701203] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[    7.701238] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    7.701242] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    7.701244] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    7.701248] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   17.721095] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   17.721097] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   17.721102] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   43.412523] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   43.412532] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   43.412540] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

#4 Hardware & System Configuration » Question - adding earlier Devuan repos as option restore to Python2 » 2023-08-31 20:26:57

James1138
Replies: 1

Hello all from Indiana.

I see as of Devuan 4 / Debian 11, Python2 has been dropped from its repositories since no longer supported. However, I have some older apps like OpenTeacher that rely on Python2 and wonder if adding eariler repos such as ASCII & Beowulf allow installing Python2?

Google search turns up things like "Python-PIP" - sounds confusing and iffy (to me anyway) as a solution for adding Python2 back.

Thanks in advance.
James

#5 Other Issues » Question of where Devuan gets its kernels » 2023-05-03 01:35:08

James1138
Replies: 1

Does Devuan use custom-made kernels or use standard kernels from Debian repositories?

Last thing I read was "Documentation» HOWTO: upgrade Devuan (stable) to the latest Linux kernel" from 2017-04-23 03:27:48

But I see newer kernels (I assume with bug fixes) - https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kernel

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
James
Indiana

#6 Other Issues » What is the maximum USB capacity Devuan can use? » 2023-04-27 21:25:58

James1138
Replies: 2

I am planning to backup my data (docs, music, video, etc.) offline using USB drives since I travel quite a bit nowadays and do not always have access to internet/cloud storage and rather not carry bulky extra external SSD (bulky compared to USB drives in terms of weight and size).

So far I found no problem with generic 128 gb drives - but wondered what is the maximum capacity (256gb, 512gb)?

On a related note - other that GPARTED or GNOME Disk Manager... any suggestions on any other software that just format USB?

Thanks in advance.
James
Indiana

#7 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Which 3D CAD software is compatible with Devuan? » 2022-10-08 17:43:13

Question: Are running Devuan 3 or 4 and have you enabled non-free as well as backport repositiores??

#8 Hardware & System Configuration » Question about upgrade kernel » 2022-05-26 15:00:44

James1138
Replies: 3

I am using Devuan 10 (Buster) with kernel 5.10.0-0.bpo.12-686-pae - but Debian repository shows newer kernels such as linux-headers-5.10.0-13-686-pae. Would it be safe to upgrade kernel using those seen in Debian 11 (Bullseye)?

Thanks in advance.
James
Indiana

#9 Re: Installation » alternatives to Mozilla's and Chomethings » 2022-05-17 02:25:24

FYI. Palemoon versions after 28 no longer allows installing legacy Firefox extensions like Errorzilla without major headaches/tweaking. SeaMonkey has a confirmed major bug that prevents typing text into Facebook when trying to create a new message. A person can type messages into a clipboard or notepad then copy and paste - but a person cannot type directly into Facebook. Also some websites like YouTube do not display properly - Google Earth will not display at all!!  And Vivaldi does not like some Chrome extensions - for example themes!  I tried all 3 for months and ended up with Chromium.

James
Indiana

#10 Re: Off-topic » ssd failure » 2021-10-12 19:12:02

I found several things that may help in future. Setting automatic TRIM job to daily https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.c … d.html#ID6 and setting the browser (Firefox or Chrome) to use memory cache more and write cache less.

James
Indiana

#11 Re: Other Issues » recommend a good email prgram » 2021-09-10 17:26:31

You can install SeaMonkey browser using UbuntuZilla APT repository. This package will be updated on every apt upgrade.

You need to execute the following commands to add repository, its key and package installation:

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozilla.list
deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/projec … ozilla/apt all main
EOF

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2667CA5C
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install seamonkey-mozilla-build

#12 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Xevuan » 2021-02-28 00:57:49

Question: What is the difference between Xevuan and standard Devuan using the option of XFCE as the desktop during install??

#13 Installation » Hearing Bluetooth audio using ALSA instead PulseAudio » 2020-12-03 18:16:03

James1138
Replies: 1

I really dislike PulseAudio for several reasons that I shall not go into. However it appears the only way to get audio to play to bluetooth speakers or headset is to have PulseAudio installed.

Has anyone heard of or found a way to play music to bluetooth speakers and/or headsets using just ALSA??

If so - please tell me how!

James
Frustrated here in Indiana

#14 Re: Off-topic » What other distro are you using (besides devuan)? » 2020-07-18 18:50:02

I tried others - WattOS, Lubuntu, Xubuntu... I am back to just Devuan (Miyo).

#15 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Can live isos be burned to optical media? » 2020-05-18 16:25:07

Burn Optical Media

https://wiki.debian.org/BurnCd

wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 -dao my.iso
cdrskin -v dev=/dev/sr0 -dao my.iso
xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 -dao my.iso

#16 Re: Installation » New install of Beowulf » 2020-05-06 17:57:14

To larsH: If you wish to use xfce4-mixer on Beowulf... you would have to do as I did and manually install the dependencies - not easy...

gstreamer0.10-alsa    -
gstreamer0.10-audiosink    -
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base    -
libatk1.0-0            >= 1.12.4
libc6                >= 2.3.6-6~
libcairo2            >= 1.2.4
libdbus-1-3            >= 1.0.2
libdbus-glib-1-2        >= 0.78
libfontconfig1            >= 2.11
libfreetype6            >= 2.2.1
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        >= 2.22.0
libglib2.0-0            >= 2.37.3
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0    >= 0.10.18
libgstreamer0.10-0        >= 0.10.0
libgtk2.0-0            >= 2.18.0
libkeybinder0            >= 0.3.0
libpango-1.0-0            >= 1.14.0
libpangocairo-1.0-0        >= 1.14.0
libpangoft2-1.0-0        >= 1.14.0
libunique-1.0-0            >= 1.0.0
libxfce4ui-1-0            >= 4.9.0
libxfce4util6            >= 4.9.0
libxfconf-0-2            >= 4.6.0
libxml2                >= 2.6.27
xfce4-panel            << 4.11
xfce4-panel            >= 4.9.2

...however some of the files that I listed may exist on your system from the initial installation. Afterwards - it works without issues.

Another option could be https://packages.debian.org/buster/volumeicon-alsa - systray volume icon for alsa

#17 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [mini-i2p-mimo] New 'Devuan-based' 3.0 release: » 2020-03-27 16:45:40

Pardon my asking. I just started reading up on the distro. Just how different is it from MiyoLinux - also created with refractasnapshot?? OnionShare and Tor can be added to MiyoLinux. Just wanted to know before I start distro-hopping. Is there a YouTube video on it??

James
Indiana

#18 Re: Devuan » Devuan Wallpapers » 2020-02-15 20:58:11

Here are more wallpapers - near the bottom of the webpage: https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/issues/7

James
Indiana

#19 Re: Devuan Derivatives » List of Devuan derivatives » 2020-02-04 23:33:15

There is also "MiyoLinux" - https://sourceforge.net/projects/miyolinux/ which is based on Devuan Testing/Beowulf.  That is what I am running right now with XFCE desktop. The new release 2-1-2020.

#20 Re: Other Issues » USB tethering? » 2020-01-21 21:58:37

Here are drivers to help with USB Tethering - [link removed by admin]

#21 Re: Devuan » make TDE desktop default and sothen devuan as different distro option » 2020-01-21 21:53:18

Just throwing my 2 cents in. I tried several WM: OpenBox, FluxBox, IceWM and JWM (last 3 were part of AntiX when I was trying that out). Of the 4 WM that I tried - JWM was overall winner with applications menu and a taskbar/panel that is closest in function to those found on full desktop environments like XFCE. As for LxQT desktop environment - I found it nowhere near as "complete" as LXDE. For example LXDE offered applets for weather and other things that LxQt just does not have at this time. Maybe in time those thing will appear in LxQT - but for now when it comes down extras/accessories/applets/plugins - LXDE is the clear choice from my experience.

#22 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Choosing an email client » 2019-10-24 20:51:14

I use Evolution over all the many years - I found it integrates well with both Devuan/Debian (also Ubuntu) and Google Calender/Contacts. As for Claws Mail and Thunderbird... I had to install so many addons and tweak settings to make it come close to what Evolution does. Evolution even has built-in contact management. FYI - Claws does NOT play well with Google Calendar (will not sync and will not import). I can add things from my Droid phone from on the road or workplace and know Evolution with sync up next time I fire it up. Granted - Evolution maybe too much for some people and it does use a little more resources that Claws or Thunderbird - but for me it is more than worth ut. I just install 3 or 4 files for Evolution vs 20 plus files for Claws Mail or Thunderbird with at-least 13 addons/extension from Mozilla addons website... among the extensions is "Lightning" to give Thunderbird ability to work with calendars. But then... do not take my word for it - fire up Synaptic package manager or install from terminal and see for yourself how many files you have to sudo apt-get install.

#23 Re: Installation » firefox 52.9 esr » 2019-09-16 17:21:51

SeaMonkey does not support Encrypted Media Extensions and therefore cannot load the Widevine Content Decryption Module. Firefox Quantum does support Encrypted Media Extensions so I think that is your most feasible option. If you already have a paid service like Netflix - you will be unable to watch it using SeaMonkey either.

#25 Re: Installation » firefox 52.9 esr » 2019-09-15 02:32:22

Problem with Pale Moon, Basilisk, and Iceweasel-UXP is that they do not (or will not) support DRM - so if you already have paid services like Netflix... you are out of luck and cannot watch!!  There are extensions to prevent things like Bitcoin mining for the Firefox 52.9 as well as extensions like HTTPS Everywhere that add security with very little extra workload.  For more legacy extensions - skip FireFox main website and use this website instead - https://legacycollector.org/firefox-addons/index.html

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