Did they work for you in a live session?

I only had time for a quick check.
Anonsurf worked - i2p did not.

Disappointed that:
1,044 pkgs to upgrade
97 pkgs to install
4 pkgs to downgrade
2 pkgs to remove
917MB to download ( after installing 1.5GB iso?)

I wanna stay Devuan'd!
Continuing this Post with install/working success/failures.

the deb is right there in the same directory.

And you are right on, it's there..! ..Why was I looking for it on the wrong partition?

I guess I should have tried live session   will do soon.

Yeah...That's what I get when something ain't working right. That's only happened with the parrot pkg - not with Und3rf10w/kali-anonsurf pkg...it just worked.
I didn't even think of using numerical ip...and not got to 'connection not secure'..that's like "almost there, but not"

So, you were running Refracta. Think I can install and test ( meaning - try to figure it out! ha).
Also, I'm still trying to progress with that Mate install...might as well start using that .deb file I - found. lol

Sent from my laptop, while using anonsurf...

asta...

Have you used {or want to} any programs yet? ...Tor, anonsurf, ...? Mine fail.

No, I didn't try anything. Did they work for you in a live session?

I had to wipe that install to make room for other stuff. I'll keep checking in on you, though.

dpkg-deb puts the package in the current directory. I just cloned the repo and ran ./installer.sh and the deb is right there in the same directory. Can't go anywhere in my browser when it's running - dns is not working. And if I try to go to a numerical IP address, I get a warning that the connection is not secure. (tested in a fresh Refracta install) Is this only supposed to work with tor browser?

Installing and using refracta tools should work ok. I did it once in the past with kali.

Sooo, I installed Miyo ascii on another partition.   because...
It's Devuan...its minimal ~ it got refractainstall & snapshot in there...it works, and I likes the Openbox.
I got quickly started & grabbed Anonsurf from GitHub and ran its installer.sh.
It went smoothly & I was surfing as soon as I checked my ip, and with different ip's every few minutes.
Thats with Pale Moon, Tor Browser, and using Synaptic.

I'm still unable to create a launcher in the menu. I copied the details over from parrot's install - but that's all Mate desktop stuff.
Soo, I figured to & did a Devuan ascii Mate install, on another partition.
Will post when that gets working.

I'm supposed to have a .deb package, created during install, but unable to find it.
It isn't in /var/cache/apt/archives, so maybe,

dpkg-deb -b kali-anonsurf-deb-src/ kali-anonsurf.deb

Dumps the built deb package after install? Maybe I should try adding:

dpkg-deb -b kali-anonsurf-deb-src/ Downloads/kali-anonsurf.deb

? maybe next try...I'd like to keep that .deb available! 

dpkg -i kali-anonsurf.deb || (apt-get -f install && dpkg -i kali-anonsurf.deb) # this will automatically install the required packages

I did install openbox - obmenu - obconf - openbox-menu, when I realized I was losing mate desktop pkgs -- openbox
replacement was my first thought...that didn't go to good, lxde gave parrot menu items back!

Me to! good to hear it ain't a big worry.

I'll continue update & hope it fixs boot problem...then test some pkgs - take notes - and do it all over again!
I'll install refracta pkgs and make iso, when things look exciting.

Have you used {or want to} any programs yet? ...Tor, anonsurf, ...? Mine fail.

I see dbus and/or gtk errors almost every time I run any graphical program in a terminal. I ignore them if things are working.

On to the hobby venture...
ditto ~ fsmithred ... "..like 'apt-get remove libreoffice"...
Yeppers! ~ I did remove pkgs I won't use - I couldn't see upgrading bloated, useless pkgs also.

Yes - that was part of my experience as well, in post #14, it was totally unexpected! Was reason for losing network, etc..
That will become part of the first-steps!

I'll give attention to that.
I did notice, for how I went thru that, mate-desktop & common stayed in...might not remember that right, but once I removed 2 remaining 'mate', pkgs, I lost panel - desktop icons..!?
But kewl, progress!! Thx fsmithred, for your time here!! Big help not roaming this desert alone..lol

Same here, not sure what started that. I cannot boot into regular grub menu entry - gotta go into "Advanced" section & use any "Recovery"
mode option, for 4.14 image, thats when I get to the:

calling: /sbin/tomoyo-init to load policy. Please wait..
TOMOYO: Default profile doesn't exist.
TOMOYO: Select a profile from the following list.
disable
>
>
APPARMOR Profiles: Mounting Securityfs on /sys/kernel/security
[info] Insufficient privileges to change profiles.. Failed! 

and after login, I'm greeted with a error window:

At that time, using Htop, 2414 was;

I made an entry in my openbox menu for Spacefm as root...with gksu spacefm as the command to open it.

While in spacefm as root, I just right-click a file and choose to open it with leafpad. That's just the way I like to do it.

Have you checked the Permissions of the file(s)? I think that's at the bottom of the menu when you right-click a file. I've had to change several files' permissions that way to add write to them.

Regarding mounting devices...all I installed was spacefm and udevil. USBs mount automatically and open automatically in a new tab.

I never set the root editor in spacefm, but I think it's somewhere around the last tab in preferences.

Also, the upgrade took 12 hours. (OK, I slept through most of that, so it might have been shorter..)
I would recommend getting rid of mate before you upgrade. It will be messy. I installed openbox, lxpanel and lxterminal before removing mate, and I still had to reinstall xorg, xinit, xserver-xorg-video-all after removing mate.

A couple of things are broken. I have to type 'disable' during bootup. I get messages about some parrot-specific package needing attention as user, not root (inet-something). And I would guess that some other special parrot sauce is broken, too.

Anyway, once I finished the dist-upgrade, I also did an 'apt-get autoremove' and also removed systemd. I lost lightdm in the whole process, but startx works.

Benefits:
1. ...this bad boy is awesome!

I like the many options, but gotta learn the 'Handlers & Protocol' stuff for mounting, but still don't mind!

I only got the snapshot part learnt right now...I thought the installer part is what I used with Miyo & Vuu-do.
I'll have to try this at some point, to use the iso I just got.
Question: the iso does not have the installer as miyo does? (not included/automatic?) I need to do more? 

Did you not go thru all the mess I went thru?? HOW??? 

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Edit:: to save space

$uname -a
Linux parrot 4.15.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.15.11-1~bpo9+1 (2018-04-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

and NO systemd mentioned in grub menu anymore!!

Time to join fsmithred and move to beowulf   yeeeha ~

Howdy MiyoLinux   Feel free to throw in a few dollars!!
SpaceFM is my new toy~~~

Good grief'amighty! After discovering that SpaceFM works with udevil to mount items...without the need for gvfs...that's all I've studied.

Drawback:
1. ...no icons on the Home folders.

Benefits:

1. ...this bad boy is awesome! People want a dual-panel file manager? SpaceFM can have up to 4 panels!

2. ...get the Trash plugin if you want Trash available (and learn how to use it; it's easy)

       https://github.com/jpfleury/corbeille-spacefm

3. ...use "bookmarks" in the side pane for Home, Root File System, and Trash.

4. ...best of all...you can really "Miyo" to your heart's content with SpaceFM!!!

Ok, went one to continue those 33 updates...This ones the extreme right now, -
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 -- removes 13 pkgs, one of them "parrot-updater" !?

and I'm allowed (haa!) to run dist-upgrade!
holding off on updating: desktop-base, intel-microcode (using amd here), iucode-tool, & linux-image-amd64
Think I better hurry up and get beowulf repos in apt!!

With our repos now enabled & updated:
I installed refractasnapshot-base 10.1.1 and with it, allot got removed. But, I'll be re-installing soon--no worries.
Allot of the mate desktop stuff gets removed. But, I wanted to see the end result of all that - and I figured I've been installing
openbox enough to have another working desktop--if mate failed at login or some point.
That didn't work out to good -- no parrot programs showed up in obox menu...
So I used lxde -- it pulled in menu & others...and its good enough for now & the next install!

With only 33 pkgs -not- upgraded (out of 117, with ASCII repos) I'm pausing upgrade for now...whew!

Now for the kernel image!
There were too many dependencies for me to get thru with the linux-image-4.15.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
Next option I saw, was the...

$uname -a
Linux parrot 4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.14.13-1~bpo9+1 (2018-01-14) x86_64 GNU/Linux

which rebooted & worked, and where I'm typing from now!!

Installed the following packages:
linux-headers-4.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (4.14.7-1~bpo9+1)
linux-compiler-gcc-6-x86 (4.9.82-1+deb9u3)
cpp-6 (6.3.0-18+deb9u1)
gcc-6 (6.3.0-18+deb9u1)
libasan3 (6.3.0-18+deb9u1)
libgcc-6-dev (6.3.0-18+deb9u1)
linux-headers-4.14.0-0.bpo.2-common (4.14.7-1~bpo9+1)
linux-image-4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (4.14.13-1~bpo9+1)
linux-kbuild-4.15 (4.15.11-1~bpo9+1)

Downgraded: gcc-6-base 6.3.0-18+deb9u1

I did not upgrade linux-image-amd64 4.14+92+parrot1 to our 4.15+91~bpo9+1, just yet!

I do not know if thats all good, or if there's more kernel pkgs to have (or if I went to far?)

In my "head-rush" of -things still working- progress, I duck`ed how to replace/remove systemd with sysvinit (good or bad?).
That's not complete tho, I do have grub menu entries with "(systemd)" in list. So that needs completition when I figure out how!

Geezz, whatta post...I hope this is usefull enough to justify the forum space!
So on to testing if stuff works ~ and either start all over or do a refractasnapshot!