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[Lxqt] Qps package not working in non-AVX arch

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:13:24 +0000

You may check devuan repositories using pkginfo.devuan.org
For example, type https://pkginfo.devuan.org/qps to your browser.

Then, typically, a version code without "devuan" in it indicates that the package is directly a Debian package, whereas a package with "devuan" in it is a Devuan package; i.e., forked typically from Debian packaging sources, modified and built in the Devuan build pipeline and published in the Devuan specific repository overlay.

wicd 1.8.0 package

dummy@example.com (metala) — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:27:48 +0000

On my test machine (AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-57 w/ 512MB, Debian 13.3, XFCE4) NM and wicd run in parallel.

After boot:

$ sudo ./ps_mem.py -p "`pgrep -f -d, 'wicd|NetworkManager|nm-applet'`"
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used	Program
 16.0 KiB + 843.5 KiB = 859.5 KiB	wicd-client
984.0 KiB + 513.5 KiB =   1.5 MiB	python3.13
  1.9 MiB + 642.5 KiB =   2.5 MiB	nm-applet
  2.8 MiB + 661.5 KiB =   3.5 MiB	wicd
  4.0 MiB + 762.5 KiB =   4.7 MiB	NetworkManager

After some time:

984.0 KiB + 429.5 KiB =   1.4 MiB	python3.13
  1.3 MiB + 843.5 KiB =   2.1 MiB	wicd-client
  2.0 MiB + 583.5 KiB =   2.5 MiB	nm-applet
  2.8 MiB + 576.5 KiB =   3.3 MiB	wicd
  3.3 MiB + 307.5 KiB =   3.6 MiB	NetworkManager

With Wicd GUI window open and Wifi networks shown:

  1.6 MiB + 815.5 KiB =   2.4 MiB	python3.13
  2.2 MiB + 597.5 KiB =   2.8 MiB	nm-applet
  2.5 MiB + 346.5 KiB =   2.9 MiB	NetworkManager
  5.9 MiB +   1.0 MiB =   6.9 MiB	wicd
 37.3 MiB +   5.9 MiB =  43.2 MiB	wicd-client

Wicd GUI closed (hidden), nm-applet showing Available networks->

  1.6 MiB + 815.5 KiB =   2.4 MiB	python3.13
  2.8 MiB + 346.5 KiB =   3.2 MiB	NetworkManager
  5.9 MiB +   1.0 MiB =   6.9 MiB	wicd
  5.7 MiB +   2.7 MiB =   8.5 MiB	nm-applet
 36.7 MiB +   4.9 MiB =  41.6 MiB	wicd-client

(After a while...) Wicd GUI closed (hidden), nm-applet showing Available networks->

  1.6 MiB + 814.5 KiB =   2.4 MiB	python3.13
  2.8 MiB + 346.5 KiB =   3.2 MiB	NetworkManager
  6.0 MiB +   1.0 MiB =   7.0 MiB	wicd
  5.9 MiB +   2.7 MiB =   8.7 MiB	nm-applet
 36.7 MiB +   4.9 MiB =  41.6 MiB	wicd-client

Running wicd-curses:

  1.5 MiB + 673.5 KiB =   2.2 MiB	python3.13
  2.8 MiB + 337.5 KiB =   3.1 MiB	NetworkManager
  7.1 MiB + 881.5 KiB =   7.9 MiB	wicd
  5.9 MiB +   2.7 MiB =   8.6 MiB	nm-applet
 27.5 MiB +   2.4 MiB =  29.9 MiB	wicd-curses
 34.8 MiB +   4.6 MiB =  39.4 MiB	wicd-client

(30 minutes later...) wicd-curses is running:

  1.5 MiB + 437.5 KiB =   1.9 MiB	python3.13
 44.0 KiB +   2.0 MiB =   2.0 MiB	wicd-client
  2.4 MiB + 905.5 KiB =   3.3 MiB	nm-applet
  4.0 MiB + 201.5 KiB =   4.2 MiB	NetworkManager
  6.0 MiB + 859.5 KiB =   6.8 MiB	wicd
  5.6 MiB +   1.8 MiB =   7.4 MiB	wicd-curses

This might be irrelevant, but it is part of the NM-suite.

400.0 KiB + 115.5 KiB = 515.5 KiB    ModemManager

PS. I don't know how to memory test ephemeral process like wicd-cli.

(HowTo) install Mkusb for Devuan 6 (or Debian)

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:33:02 +0000

I use this interactive script so I don't have to type as much. Run it from the directory that contains the iso files. Code is mostly lifted from refracta2usb which can make a multi-boot live-usb and is a lot bigger than this.
You need hwinfo and pv installed for this to work.

That would be nifty to make a right-click file-manager extension.

Bug in MiniDLNA init script: missing chown for db_dir

dummy@example.com (maran) — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:23:51 +0000

Hi,

I've encountered an issue with the minidlna (ReadyMedia) init script on Devuan (SysVinit). The service fails to rebuild the database when the -R or -r flag is used, resulting in the following error:

minidlna.c:944: fatal: Failed to clean old file cache /var/cache/minidlna. EXITING

The Cause: The /etc/init.d/minidlna script correctly handles permissions for the LOGFILE and PIDFILE directories in the do_start() function, but it fails to do the same for the db_dir (default: /var/cache/minidlna). If the directory is owned by root (which happens during some installation scenarios or manual cleanups), the minidlna user cannot delete the old files.db.

Proposed Fix: In /etc/init.d/minidlna, within the do_start() function, we should ensure the database directory exists and has the correct ownership.

Currently, it only does:

mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOGFILE")" && chown $USER:$GROUP "$(dirname "$LOGFILE")" || return 2
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PIDFILE")" && chown $USER:$GROUP "$(dirname "$PIDFILE")" || return 2

It should also include something like:

mkdir -p /var/cache/minidlna && chown -R $USER:$GROUP /var/cache/minidlna || return 2

(Note: A more robust approach would be to parse db_dir from /etc/minidlna.conf, but ensuring the default path at least would solve most cases.)

Without this, any attempt to refresh the library after deleting files (which requires rebuilding the cache) fails silently or crashes the daemon.

Best regards,

(request) including of USBimager

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:01:15 +0000

it seems was little bit too enthusiastic with 2usbimager since it seem not read reliably the sdcard for cloning;

balena etcher was able to clone sd-card to a bigger sized one with no issues;
(maybe the read-command functions only with drives that have no-multi-partition, not with ones like contains libreelec)

[SOLVED] Packages that do not appear in the Synaptic package manager

dummy@example.com (Duke Nukem) — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:52:18 +0000

It's KDE bro, lol.
Some folks just want a system that's a good tool to accomplish various tasks. (that's me)
But some folks want a complete immersive cinematic-style experience with lots of animations and transitions

Discover was one of the reasons I gave up kde (ceasing to allow different backgrounds for different desktops was another). So it was a package manager? I never did find out because although it kept popping up that it had updates for me, behaving like an annoying phone app, when I tried responding to it out of exasperation nothing happened. Couldn't find a way to uninstall it either, must have been baked in.

Packaging the fftrate ALSA plugin

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:59:47 +0000

In summary: version 1.6.3-3 has been built and will be available in a couple of days with the sources.list reference:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/devuan experimental main

Note that it is "/devuan" rather than "/merged", since the experimental repository is not merged. Further, I should warn that adding such sources.list lines willy-nilly can bring unplanned hair loss.

At the moment only the plugin package 1.6.3-1 is available.

The experimental building pipeline is for "all" architectures: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el and riscv64.

If you have another architecture, you may download the ".dsc", "tar.gz" and "tar.xz" files to a directory, cd into that and use the "debuild" schemata to build, like the following:

dpkg-source -x fftrate_1.6.3-3.dsc
cd fftrate-1.6.3
debuild -k0x12345678

where "12345678" is replaced by your GPG key ID. That'll leave the build residue in the parent directory and the work tree fftrate-1.6.3 can be removed. Note that you may have to also install build dependencies; ideally it will tell you which to install. If it doesn't then please tell me (because then I have failed to declare that dependency)

gnome-hearts is gone in Daedalus?

dummy@example.com (RedGreen925) — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:17:23 +0000

what happened do gnome-hearts?

It was removed in 2018.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-hearts

[SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

dummy@example.com (abower) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:41:31 +0000

It's the other way round: 'usrmerge' converts /bin and /sbin into symlinks pointing to the corresponding directories under /usr. It's not new to Excalibur but does become compulsory.

I use cryptsetup for whole disk encryption. It has good Devuan integration. Since Excalibur it can also harness OPAL hardware-based SSD encryption - I use this on low performance machines.

different versions of same package, kicad

dummy@example.com (igorzwx) — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:34:16 +0000

If you cannot compile, you may try Ubuntu debs from PPA
_https://launchpad.net/~kicad/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-9.0-releases

DEBs:
_https://launchpad.net/~kicad/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-9.0-releases/+packages
_https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kicad/kicad-9.0-releases/ubuntu/pool/main/k/
_https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kicad/kicad-9.0-releases/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kicad/kicad_9.0.3-0~ubuntu24.10.1_amd64.deb

Deb packages can be repacked and renamed without compilation.

You may also try to compile:

$ dget --extract --allow-unauthenticated https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/kicad/9.0.3+dfsg-1/kicad_9.0.3+dfsg-1.dsc
dget: retrieving https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/kicad/9.0.3+dfsg-1/kicad_9.0.3+dfsg-1.dsc
...
dpkg-source: info: extracting kicad in kicad-9.0.3+dfsg
dpkg-source: info: unpacking kicad_9.0.3+dfsg.orig.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking kicad_9.0.3+dfsg.orig-doc.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking kicad_9.0.3+dfsg-1.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: using patch list from debian/patches/series
dpkg-source: info: applying fixes/Adjusting-content-in-the-desktop-files.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying reproducibility/doc-Add-field-revdate-to-asciidoc-files.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying debian-hacks/KiCadFullVersion-Drop-hyphen-in-the-string.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying fixes/demos-Adjust-MIME-encoding-to-UTF8-of-some-libraries.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying fixes/python-Use-raw-strings-expressions.patch

$ ls -1
kicad-9.0.3+dfsg
kicad_9.0.3+dfsg-1.debian.tar.xz
kicad_9.0.3+dfsg-1.dsc
kicad_9.0.3+dfsg.orig-doc.tar.xz
kicad_9.0.3+dfsg.orig.tar.xz

Read the Build-Deps:

cat kicad-9.0.3+dfsg/debian/control

Install the Build-Deps

Rename the package (in debian/control)

Rename the binary

$ cat kicad-9.0.3+dfsg/CMakeLists.txt | grep project\(
project( kicad )

cd to SourceDir

cd kicad-9.0.3+dfsg

And compile it with

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b

You may also want to read the manual:
_https://wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA

[SOLVED] tomcat9 version in chimaera

dummy@example.com (IdeaFix) — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:43:51 +0000

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … 9&x=submit

May be it is siolved.... i need to check

[SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org

dummy@example.com (IdeaFix) — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:53:07 +0000

There is no devuan archive mirrors and current morror (hosting provider?) blocks some networks (not all) in my country. I have no access to mirror from Universiry network and have no problems in home network.

Repackaging Debian packages

dummy@example.com (RedGreen925) — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:19:53 +0000

It's in unstable

Shows up in Trixie as well, in addition to the git clone command to install local version listed.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw … ection=all

with apt-cacher-ng, not able to get 32-bit library packages

dummy@example.com (rmrichesjr) — Sun, 11 May 2025 00:49:28 +0000

Thank you for the suggestion to delete i586 (and i686) and have only i386 as a foreign architecture. That worked, the i386 library packages installed, and Applix works again (needed the libraries).

libguava-java (gradle)

dummy@example.com (fahro) — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:00:28 +0000

OK, I give up.
The same problem is on vanilla Debian.

Get:44 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1 [2,613 kB]                                                                                                  
Ign:44 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1                                                                                                             
Get:44 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1 [2,613 kB]
Ign:44 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1
Get:44 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1 [2,613 kB]
Err:44 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1
  Connection timed out [IP: 199.232.18.132 80]
Fetched 81.2 MB in 3min 9s (429 kB/s)        
E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/guava-libraries/libguava-java_31.1-1_all.deb  Connection timed out [IP: 199.232.18.132 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
root@curie:~#

After update/upgrade the same.

root@curie:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
root@curie:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@curie:~# apt-get install gradle
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  ant ant-optional antlr bnd groovy ivy java-wrappers junit4 libantlr-java libaopalliance-java libapache-pom-java libasm-java libatinject-jsr330-api-java libbcel-java libbcpg-java
  libbcprov-java libbindex-java libbsf-java libbsh-java libcdi-api-java libcommons-cli-java libcommons-codec-java libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-compress-java libcommons-io-java
  libcommons-lang-java libcommons-lang3-java libcommons-logging-java libcommons-parent-java libdd-plist-java libdom4j-java libeclipse-jdt-annotation-java libel-api-java liberror-prone-java
  libfelix-framework-java libfelix-gogo-runtime-java libfelix-osgi-obr-java libfelix-resolver-java libfindbugs-java libgeronimo-annotation-1.3-spec-java
  libgeronimo-interceptor-3.0-spec-java libgoogle-gson-java libgpars-groovy-java libgradle-core-java libgradle-plugins-java libguava-java libguice-java libhamcrest-java
  libhawtjni-runtime-java libhttpclient-java libhttpcore-java libjansi-java libjansi-native-java libjansi1-java libjarjar-java libjatl-java libjavaewah-java libjaxen-java libjcifs-java
  libjcip-annotations-java libjcommander-java libjcsp-java libjetty9-java libjformatstring-java libjgit-java libjline2-java libjna-java libjna-jni libjsch-java libjsoup-java
  libjsp-api-java libjsr166y-java libjsr305-java libjzlib-java libkryo-java libkxml2-java liblogback-java libmaven-parent-java libmaven-resolver-java libmaven-shared-utils-java
  libmaven3-core-java libminlog-java libmultiverse-core-java libnative-platform-java libnative-platform-jni libnekohtml-java libobjenesis-java libosgi-annotation-java
  libosgi-compendium-java libosgi-core-java libplexus-cipher-java libplexus-classworlds-java libplexus-component-annotations-java libplexus-container-default-java
  libplexus-interpolation-java libplexus-sec-dispatcher-java libplexus-utils2-java libpolyglot-maven-java libqdox-java libreflectasm-java libreflectasm-java-doc librhino-java
  libservlet-api-java libsimple-http-java libsisu-inject-java libsisu-plexus-java libslf4j-java libwagon-file-java libwagon-http-java libwagon-provider-api-java libwebsocket-api-java
  libxbean-reflect-java libxerces2-java libxml-commons-external-java libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java libxpp3-java libxstream-java libxz-java libyaml-snake-java testng
Suggested packages:
  ant-doc javacc junit jython libactivation-java libcommons-net-java libmail-java libjaxp1.3-java libjdepend-java liblog4j1.2-java liboro-java libregexp-java libxalan2-java gradle-doc
  groovy-doc ivy-doc libjsch-agent-proxy-java libatinject-jsr330-api-java-doc libbcel-java-doc bsh rhino libcommons-collections3-java-doc libcommons-io-java-doc libcommons-lang-java-doc
  libcommons-lang3-java-doc libavalon-framework-java libcommons-logging-java-doc libexcalibur-logkit-java libmsv-java libxpp2-java libfelix-framework-java-doc
  libfelix-gogo-runtime-java-doc libfelix-osgi-obr-java-doc libgoogle-gson-java-doc libcglib-java libjdom1-java libxom-java libjcifs-java-doc libjcommander-java-doc libjcsp-java-doc jetty9
  libjsoup-java-doc libjsr305-java-doc libjanino-java libtomcat9-java libmaven-shared-utils-java-doc libnative-platform-java-doc libnekohtml-java-doc libosgi-annotation-java-doc
  libosgi-compendium-java-doc libosgi-core-java-doc libplexus-utils2-java-doc libpolyglot-maven-java-doc libqdox-java-doc libsimple-http-java-doc libxerces2-java-doc
  libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java-doc libcglib-nodep-java libjdom2-java libjettison-java libjoda-time-java
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ant ant-optional antlr bnd gradle groovy ivy java-wrappers junit4 libantlr-java libaopalliance-java libapache-pom-java libasm-java libatinject-jsr330-api-java libbcel-java libbcpg-java
  libbcprov-java libbindex-java libbsf-java libbsh-java libcdi-api-java libcommons-cli-java libcommons-codec-java libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-compress-java libcommons-io-java
  libcommons-lang-java libcommons-lang3-java libcommons-logging-java libcommons-parent-java libdd-plist-java libdom4j-java libeclipse-jdt-annotation-java libel-api-java liberror-prone-java
  libfelix-framework-java libfelix-gogo-runtime-java libfelix-osgi-obr-java libfelix-resolver-java libfindbugs-java libgeronimo-annotation-1.3-spec-java
  libgeronimo-interceptor-3.0-spec-java libgoogle-gson-java libgpars-groovy-java libgradle-core-java libgradle-plugins-java libguava-java libguice-java libhamcrest-java
  libhawtjni-runtime-java libhttpclient-java libhttpcore-java libjansi-java libjansi-native-java libjansi1-java libjarjar-java libjatl-java libjavaewah-java libjaxen-java libjcifs-java
  libjcip-annotations-java libjcommander-java libjcsp-java libjetty9-java libjformatstring-java libjgit-java libjline2-java libjna-java libjna-jni libjsch-java libjsoup-java
  libjsp-api-java libjsr166y-java libjsr305-java libjzlib-java libkryo-java libkxml2-java liblogback-java libmaven-parent-java libmaven-resolver-java libmaven-shared-utils-java
  libmaven3-core-java libminlog-java libmultiverse-core-java libnative-platform-java libnative-platform-jni libnekohtml-java libobjenesis-java libosgi-annotation-java
  libosgi-compendium-java libosgi-core-java libplexus-cipher-java libplexus-classworlds-java libplexus-component-annotations-java libplexus-container-default-java
  libplexus-interpolation-java libplexus-sec-dispatcher-java libplexus-utils2-java libpolyglot-maven-java libqdox-java libreflectasm-java libreflectasm-java-doc librhino-java
  libservlet-api-java libsimple-http-java libsisu-inject-java libsisu-plexus-java libslf4j-java libwagon-file-java libwagon-http-java libwagon-provider-api-java libwebsocket-api-java
  libxbean-reflect-java libxerces2-java libxml-commons-external-java libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java libxpp3-java libxstream-java libxz-java libyaml-snake-java testng
0 upgraded, 121 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,613 kB/83.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 123 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1 [2,613 kB]
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1                                                                                                              
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1 [2,613 kB]
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1 [2,613 kB]
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1 [2,613 kB]
Err:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 libguava-java all 31.1-1
  Connection timed out [IP: 199.232.18.132 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/guava-libraries/libguava-java_31.1-1_all.deb  Connection timed out [IP: 199.232.18.132 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

If there is a way to run apt-get (apt) with detailed debug information, I can run it on Devuan box. For curiosity solely.

Other than that, thank you.