Thanks!!!

Here's the direct link to the Refracta forum:
http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewforum.php?f=67

Main index page. (definitely worth a look.)
http://www.debianuserforums.org/index.php

Make sure you have non-free enabled in your sources. Then you should be able to find the package.

I can log in, but I don't know if anyone else can. Would someone please let me know if you can or can't log in?

No genius here. I just keep kicking stuff around until it works.

While I'm here, I'll share more information about what happened.

After the tapatalk migration was completed (for all their forums) they sent out a mailing to all forum owners (and apparently some others, too) informing us that the migration was complete and we would be seeing new features. They mentioned an option to make it financially rewarding. They also invited a reply if we had any questions.

A few days later, I went to the refracta forum, and I saw a PayPal Donate button on the front page, with the words, "Support refracta.freeforums.org by making a donation."  Well, I don't have a paypal account, and I'm not aware of any financial agreements that I might have with tapatalk.

I replied to that email with questions, basically stating the above and asking for an explanation. I got no reply. After a couple days, I disabled the forum. I didn't want anyone to use the donate button unless I knew what it did. About two weeks later, another mass mailing went out with some explanation regarding donations and "Gold Points". Here's the gold points FAQ -
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tapatal … 37910.html

TL;DR - They ask you to donate to support refracta, and they get the money. The donator gets to not see ads. ($5/month to do what noscript does for free)

I haven't contacted them again, but I just looked around on their support forum to see if I could learn anything about backing up and migrating my database to some other host. I found this -
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tapatal … 8070ed3695

TL;DR - no, you can't do that. (Note: It's a recent post. It's possible that a moderator might respond with more information.)

So here's the current status of the board:
-  It's disabled, so you can't post.
- You can log in and read.
- You can log in and send private messages.

I have backups of the posts. I don't have backups of the user accounts. I don't know any way for anyone to back up their own private messages, other than to open them and copy/paste the content.

Forum backups are at the ibiblio site. Instructions for use: unpack and practice your grep.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/forum_archive/

Now I need to do something else to get my mind off this.

I'm having some difficulty understanding what you want to do. If devuan is already installed and can connect with wired ethernet, you should be able to run

apt-get install firmware-realtek

to get the wireless working.

If you want to install devuan on a computer that has no CD drive or USB ports, that's gets a little more difficult. Upgrading an old ubuntu to devuan might be possible, but it would be difficult. In fact, someone reported in irc last night that they did exaclty that. I don't recommend trying it in this case. A debootstrap install would probably be easier. Or pull the hard drive and connect it to another computer to install the system, then put it back where it belongs. Or make a separate partition for devuan and install from hard drive. (Did you already try that?)

Gary, it's not a bug. The key for the new repo was created Sep 4. I don't know what date it was added to the keyring, but I assume it was before your last upgrade. You already got it.

fungus, OK, pamac. Got it. Thanks. I'll bet they did that on purpose.
I don't know an onion address, but it might be in the works or already exist. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: This just in via irc:
"the onion link is here: https://devuan.org/
  under "Packages""

and it goes to pkgmaster.devuan.org

No arm devices to play with, so no isos or images for your hardware. Sorry. Do any of the devuan images work on your hardware?

You might be able to get refractasnapshot and refractainstaller to work. The packages are not specific to any architecture, but I don't know if any of the system commands they use need to be modified. Let us know if you succeed, and if not, let us know what errors you get.

What repository are you looking at? packages.devuan.org or pkgmaster.devuan.org?  Are you looking at jessie, ascii or ceres?

Note: I don't think there have been or will be any changes to packages.devuan.org (and consequently with auto.mirror.devuan.org) in the recent past or future.

Yes. It's in jessie-security

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3999

Yad calendar seems to just spit out the date you select. If I remember correctly, Osmo lets you schedule appointments or enter notes.

@greenjeans - not sure what you mean about graying out next months dates. On mine, they are gray, and if you click on one, it changes to that month.

To answer your original question (the subject line of this thread)...

  NOW!

amprolla3 works for ascii. We need to know if it still works when more than a few people hit on it at once.

To use amprolla3 in ascii, change 'auto.mirror.devuan.org' to 'pkgmaster.devuan.org'
(for jessie, keep using auto.mirror)

You'll need the updated keyring:

apt-get update
apt-get install devuan-keyring

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii main contrib non-free
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-security main contrib non-free

apt-get update

Now you're ready to install or upgrade ascii using amprolla3. Merges are done every 2 minutes, so we shouldn't be lagging behind debian.

You should be able to use the above sources for an upgrade from jessie to ascii.
Also, rsyslog has been fixed, so you don't have to substitute it with a different syslogger and debootstrap will work.