I put the iso on my old website because it was easier to get there from the build host.,
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/file … p-live.iso

sha256sum

4fb0a40a6f58e358e00e940e3ac6c1112ef450dffdcb509bd0df6949041b477c  devuan_daedalus_5.0-signed-test_amd64_desktop-live.iso

Hint: "\n" means newline.

$ curl wttr.in/Miner?format="Condition:+%C\nTemperature:+%t\n"
Condition: Overcast
Temperature: -2°C

I use weather-util to get the weather and dump it in a file. Then I let conky pick lines from the file.

wrapper script: (get-weather)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ -n "$1" ] ; then
	station="$1"
else
	station="klax"
fi

weather -v "$station"

~/.conkyrc lines

{color}${execi 1800 /home/fred/bin/get-weather > .current_weather}   ${execi 1800 awk '/Temperature/ { print $0 }' .current_weather }     ${execi 1800 awk '/Humidity/ { print $0 }' .current_weather} 

or

${color}${execi 1800 /home/fred/bin/get-weather.sh > .current_weather} ${color}${execi 1800 cat .current_weather | grep -E "United|Wind|Sky|Temperature|Dew|Humidity|Pressure"}

Hmm... that first one isn't working right for me. Something wrong with my alighment or width. Play with the output if you want. I'm using the second one.

If you want to see the whole .conkyrc, I'll show you, but I think you can find multiple examples somewhere on this forum. I'm sure there have been some discussions.

I don't have .xsessionrc either. I'm using xfce, so I put the start commands in a script and added that script to my desktop startup applications.

It looks like this. Give it a name, make it executable, put it in your path (/usr/local/bin or ~/bin if you have one) and add that script to your startup apps.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

wireplumber &

pipewire &

pipewire-pulse &

You'll need to exit the desktop and log in again for it to take effect. If you still have no sound, run pavucontrol and check the settings, and/or run alsamixer in a terminal and check the settings - F6 will let you select the audio device.

I can't check that, but I can suggest that you partition the disk manually as gpt using gdisk or gparted. Then when you run the installer, you can select the partitions you created.

If you use gpt with legacy bios boot, you need a special partition, at least 1MB size, with no filesystem on it ("unformatted" in gparted) and with a flag of ef02 (in gdisk) or bios_grub (in gparted).

Unfortunately, if you run your system in a different language, refracta tools will still be in English. Sorry about that.

The two most likely ways to use refracta2usb are the following options:

ISO_!   04   Create Live-USB from unpacked CD image.
This will unpack the iso file and copy some files to a directory that you name on the usb. If the iso file is bootable by both uefi and legacy bios, both of those methods will be copied to the usb. If the iso does not boot uefi, then only the syslinux bootloader will be added.

or

ISO_2    05  Create Live-USB using intact iso and findiso boot option
This will copy the iso file to the usb and use the findiso option from live-boot to locate the .iso file and boot that. The difference is that filesystem.squashfs is not visible like it is in the ISO_1 option. It also make the intact iso file available for easily sharing it with someone.

The directory structure on the USB will be something like the following if you were to use both methods listed above. This multi-boot USB has two live systems on it. Refracta8_amd64 was added to the usb using the ISO_1 option, and jessie-ice was added using the ISO_2 method. Either system will boot on uefi or legacy bios with this setup.

	
	|── boot
	│   └── grub
	│       ├── efiboot.img
	│       ├── font.pf2
	│       ├── grub.cfg
	│       ├── splash.png
	│       └── x86_64-efi
	|── efi
	│   └── boot
	│       └── bootx64.efi
	├── jessie_ice
	│   ├── initrd.img
	│   ├── jessie-ice-template-20170103_1454.iso
	│   └── vmlinuz
	├── refracta8_amd64
	│   ├── live
	│   │   ├── filesystem.squashfs
	│   │   ├── initrd.img
	│   │   ├── memtest
	│   │   ├── vmlinuz
	│   └── pkglist_refracta8_xfce_amd64_rc1-20160923_1334
	│       └── package_list
	└── syslinux
	    ├── live.cfg[c][/c]
	    ├── (other files)

The reason refracta2usb didn't get into the repo is because the package isn't built the official way. Ordinarily, that's just a matter of moving a few things around inside the deb package (and using different tools to build it). The problem is the code itself is a steaming pile of spaghetti, and I am afraid to touch it. It really needs a complete overhaul.

You can find the package here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/

@stopAI
Thanks for the clear and simple instructions. It works! (in daedalus, not in chimaera)

I just installed pipewire-audio and it automatically removed pulseaudio. It did not remove pavucontrol or pulseaudio-utils. Those can coexist, and they they still work.

@aluma

What do you get if you run this?

apt policy network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-tde

Seriously,, we got to the fifth post and nobody has yet asked why network-manager got removed?

I'll ask the OP. Why did network-manager get removed? Were there any hints or clues in the output? What is different or non-standard about your install?

FWIW, I just finished upgrading my ceres about five minutes ago, and network-manager and network-manager-gnome are still installed. This is a standard devuan desktop install with xfce, i386, no customizations.

I really don't know what they are talking about. It looks like openrc already provides its own start-stop-daemon.

apt-file list openrc
...
openrc: /lib/rc/sh/start-stop-daemon.sh

Oh wow. It makes sense once I figured out that the list of metapackage names does not contain any metapackage names, and that the list of Descriptions does contain metapackage names.