Please consider moving to LXQT as well.
It's a full-featured desktop (or almost), and faster than both XFCE and LXDE.

Thank you very much, guys. In the end I chose another way of doing things - I placed all my stuff in /opt (mainly scripts and artwork) and symlink it from there to /usr/local/bin or wherever necessary. This may seem odd but it has this big advantage that pretty much everything I did to "alter" the system can be found in one place (/opt).

A while ago I thought it was a good way to go to create deb packages (with fpm it's fast and easy) but that would mean to re-create and re-install those packages every time I make a minor change so I gave up on that

Best wishes,
Omnio

dzz, would you consider sharing the things that you learnt while making exe linux by creating a wiki page with advices and tweaks for the users who "manually" install TDE on Devuan? I saw the wiki already has a link but it sends to an empty/non-existent page: https://friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php/de … lling5-tde

Mageia on my laptop.

Thank you. I needed more time to make more tests, but it looks like I still need more time to make more tests because I can't figure out yet what's going on with this machine/install of mine. In short, on this machine I have two Devuan installs (one made with the live DVD and the other one made with the regular big DVD). On the install made with the live DVD refractasnapshot worked from the start, like a breeze, but on the other install (made with regular DVD) I just can't make it work (the resulted images fail to boot with the error "(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system").

And step by step, this is what I did in the meanwhile:

1. I installed refractasnapshot-base and refractasnapshot-gui, both v. 10.2.6 i386 from CERES (no problem installing on ASCII, btw). Ran refractasnapshot (no error messages regarding initrd with this new version) => no success
2. Uninstalled microcode packages, re-ran refractasnapshot => no success
3. Purged ALL the firmware packages, re-ran refractasnapshot => no success
4. At this point I was striving to realize what exactly is different between my two installs and why in one place it works and in the other one it doesn't. One thing that occured to me was that the live DVD was installed on an ext4 partition, whilst the regular DVD was installed on a JFS partition. So I cloned (with rsync) "the JFS install" to an ext4 partition (and updated fstab, initrd, grub). Booted "the ext4 clone", re-ran refractasnapshot => no success

What I'm going to do next is:
- upgrade the kernel, on the install where refractasnapshot works I have a 4.9.0-9-686 kernel, and on the other install a 4.9.0-6-686 kernel;
- search for differences between the two installs - in grub.conf, fstab... anything that could be responsible for the different behaviour.

Hi fsmithred, thank you for taking the time to reply. Here is /var/log/refractasnapshot_errors.log that was created when I ran 'refractasnapshot -d' (for version 10.1.1, the one that apt installs in ASCII): http://paste.debian.net/hidden/93a0485b/

I also took your advice and later updated refractasnapshot (I installed refractasnapshot-base_10.2.3~fsr_all.deb, it seems this is the newest). However, when running the new refractasnapshot, this is what happens:

Running updatedb...

/tmp/extracted /home/work
Decompession error...

So I had a look at /usr/bin/refractasnapshot (starting with line 321):

	COMPRESSION=$(file -L "$initrd_image" | egrep -o 'gzip compressed|XZ compressed')

	if [ "$COMPRESSION" = "gzip compressed" ]; then
		echo "Archive is gzip compressed..."
		zcat "$initrd_image" | cpio -i

	elif [ "$COMPRESSION" = "XZ compressed" ]; then
		echo "Archive is XZ compressed..."
		xzcat "$initrd_image" | cpio -d -i -m
	else
		echo "Decompession error..." && exit 1
	fi

However, on my machine, things look like this:

root@devuan:~# file -L /initrd.img
/initrd.img: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
root@devuan:~# ls -l /initrd.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul  4 23:43 /initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-6-686

I'd say that my initrd is not supported, but I don't know why/how, this is a simple ASCII i386 install made with the regular big DVD.

Best wishes,

Omnio