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Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:34:20 +0000

Can that please be the last off-topic post in this thread that's supposed to be about display managers that work with both X and Wayland?

Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian?

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:58:53 +0000

Don't know how those entries got mangled like that, but here's what it shows on that page and can confirm it worked for me and it's what's on the mate-mini-xlibre iso:

Types: deb
URIs: https://xlibre-debian.github.io/devuan/
Suites: main
Components: stable
Architectures: amd64 arm64
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/NexusSfan.pgp

Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian?

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:30:26 +0000

https://github.com/xlibre-debian/devuan

Thats exactly what does not work for me.

Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian?

dummy@example.com (rations) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:12:34 +0000

I've never had a problem with the mixed up suites and components. and updates work on both excalibur and freia. https://github.com/xlibre-debian/devuan

Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian?

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:49:31 +0000

@fsmithred: sorry, the link to xlibre you posted yesterday is not working as expected. That page can be read but contains severe problems. The sources file is bad, Suits and Components is mixed up. And when I try to change my "working" sources to what is displayed there with corrections I get "no release file found".

What works forme is this older information:

Types: deb
URIs: https://xlibre-deb.github.io/devuan
Suites: excalibur
Components: main
Architectures: amd64
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/xlibre-deb.asc
Enabled: yes

No updates for a while but no errors on apt update.

Not working, meanwhile disabled again:

Types: deb
URIs: https://xlibre-debian.github.io/devuan
# Suites: excalibur
Suites: stable
Components: main
Architectures: amd64
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/NexusSfan.pgp
Enabled: no

Re: xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:31:12 +0000

@fredbird67: I just tried extrepo to install xlibre, and it didn't work. The install command gave me an error message about an undefined subroutine. I also figured out that I probably need to run 'extrepo enable xlibre' and it added a file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ that points to the wrong (unmaintained) xlibre repository.

The correct way to get xlibre in devuan is to follow the instructions here, provided by NexusSfan:
https://xlibre-debian.github.io/

That way you'll get updates as more things get fixed.

xlibre-deb or xlibre-debian?

dummy@example.com (fredbird67) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:27:32 +0000

My personal recommendation is XLibre. Given how the Wayland devs are refusing to allow any updates to be made to X11, XLibre was created last year as a fork, in protest. XLibre has already received thousands of bugfixes and patches over the past year, and is on track to emerge as the clearly superior competitor to Wayland, no matter how hard they try to shove Wayland down our throats when we don't want it (I don't, anyway).

To get XLibre on Devuan, you'll need to install extrepo. Once you've done that, you'll want to run "sudo apt update", and then run "sudo extrepo install xlibre".