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I posted my experiences in installing Freia or Devuan 7 from its7.0-202608191935_amd64_netinstall.iso. Since the topic is related with Freia, I decided to post here what I have done this week.
[Background]
I had good impression installing Freia with lxqt several weeks ago, using its June-built netinstall iso on AMD PC with 2 SSDs of Devuan(450GB) and Windows11(125GB) respectively. 2 weeks ago, I started the re-installation of Windows 11 so that I needed to re-install Freia once again. But could not achieve the successful installation. I did not understand why so I repeated the installation this week with my low-end i5 Intel PC(4GBx2 with 320GB SSD), purchased via auction. This test result might be caused by my cooling-capacity-constraint PC, due to the summer environment. If so, apology.
[Result]
A. Xfce4
The result is getting better day-by-day due to daily system upgrade by Devuan team. Thanks for the hard work! Now it should be OK on Freia but it is not full-version installed, instead. For both of Excalibur and Freia net install iso's, I saw some difference of logoff-menu on xfce-panel. only logoff button is valid on Freia but fully valid for 5 switches on Excalibur. Used to be about 930 items installed but now 1117 items installed after selecting WM options of KDE/Cinnamon,Xfce lxde ... Full install could be more like 1160 or 1165 when I installed via 4GB devuan_excalibur_6.1.1_amd64_desktop.iso. tested yesterday.
B. LxQt
No improvement in my test period, I made multiple successes several weeks ago. I thought by selection of SSH sever option could be helpful while testing on xfce4. But it is not but increasing # of items by 5 or so. The item # installed was 926 and increased 938 items if web server option is on. No effect on the result. On the last test, I installed openbox and obconf, tint2 in addition to lightdm after login or just seeing ">". After rebooting, the system is confirmed if either of SDDM or Lightdm to be used on next login.
I saw nothing with error message of no-session for pid1806 on the screen after reboot then I made right-click by mouse to see openbox window. Obviously nothing from lxqt. After installing synaptic, 1 item of task-lxqt-desktop is x-marked and total installed item # was 1201. <end of report>
Please understand I am not complaning but appreciating your team's hard work. Thanks, Yoshi
PS
I do not use much for Windows 11 on anotter SSD since Virtualbox installed on Devuan! I installed vuudo 5.03 under VB on Windows11, not latest, by the way.
I am with Xfce4 with Openbox now on Freia. I have been with some difficulties from the net install iso's of Freia for Lxqt and Xfce4 since last week so I decided to migrate from one of debian stable xfce4 iso's today. Now I am happy now.
Two or three weeks ago, I could install lxqt from the previous one but I have been keep failing to have the GOOD initial environment from both of net install iso's since last week. I started my linux journey from ascii with mostly openbox. No more i3!
Please provide the clear explanation of your problem and/pr issue so that some knowledgeable SMEs could provide you some better advice .....
Yoshi
For your information, Peppermint Devuan Excalibur iso of test build is available now since May 10th.
https://peppermintos.com/2026/05/pepper … n-testing/
I found it today and installed on intel pc only. Its size is with 1.3gb. After adding firmware(s) for amd pc, it ran perfectly on amd pc as well.
I like it pretty much, by the way.
Seems the same problem is encountered in Ubuntu as well. Confirmed as well by seeing op's comment.
Synaptic screenshots of applications not working: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/synaptic … king/69398
@greenjeans, my stuff of mrcp is the older version with the different appearance and it is not shared by some reason. But why not try yours?! Can be interesting! Thanks a lot!
@Ron. you can build your own from netinstall iso using the script(s) by JustAGuyLinux.( https://codeberg.org/justaguylinux )
He develps the scripts for debian so easily we can apply to Devuan. You'd better to check the codes first. Sometimes you will find it wil be stucking especially at the command line such as sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon acpid....
Happy linux journey !?
yoshi
My ceres seems OK for now but the test PC with excalibur, upgraded from daedalus today, judged gnome polkit untrusted so it is disappeared now. Just installed polkit mate per recommendation. Thanks a lot....
As far as I remember, Head-on-a-Stick maintained it by some time. He continues to release deadbang iso in sourceforge, by the way. The latest version is 13.1.0 hybrid version of trixie. yoshi
@greenjeans, thanks for your time. I reinstalled one more time. Finally I noticed that I forgot to edit .asoundrc to connect to the correct sound card. That's easy fix, though. Appreciated your kind offer for the code changes, etc. .... yoshi
@greenjeans, I think we, at least myself, are having the problem on the latest version of Vuu-do-5.03-ob-max-z-20251024_2043.iso. I spent for a day to find out any solution but I do not find it. The problem is not allowing untrusted stuff.... For example, the tool of my-crappy radio player by miyolinux does not allowed to run since all components need t.o be manually installed or moved/copied to /usr/local/bin, etc.. the tool of firejail is not helpful. Can you make the additional work using the previous version or solve by yourself to remove this problem? I saw the initial condition with 2 items of en_us but all countries stuff installed after updating. I do not know if you are aware of. Thanks in advance ... yoshi
P.S, If this change is from your intention. Then please forgive me. We are still in daedalus but not excalibur yet. But I faced this problem already om daedalus using obamen.py for openbox the other day on devuan 5.
@greenjaens, have you noticed the comment of reader's review /comment that posted for EXTROX distro in Sourceforge? Here is the shortcut, that siad that Vuu-do is the only one that could play at 2160p in youtube video. Vuu-do is really amazing!
@greenjeans
The issue is not so complicated. I made a short walk arrond my place and thought what was missing after posting 2-3 hours ago. It seems I did not copy ja_JP staff into /usr/share/locale/ yesterday. Then I repeated from installation from iso, upgrade, ..... And copy ja_JP stuff ....
Bingo! I do not have any problem with English menu or as it is. But what I need additionally is to type my language using editor, browser and other tools. Now I can do so. For Libreoffice, I installed its l10n-ja so that I can type my languages under the localized menu.
Now I am happy and I think you are happy as well, aren't you? Thank you very much sending me very kind wordings for responding to my request.... Yoshi
Never mind, my friend. When I started the linux journey, back in ascii era, I spent my time with vuu-du and I thought I could have made it after installing locales-all and such. This is the background or why I wanted to test after seeing "New" vuu-do again early this year.
I like the concept of light system very much but it should be supported of 3S (Simplicity, Speediness and Straight-forward)?)). I forgot the 3rd one. I learned that concept when I was in colledge-era. Sound like your system is against those.... I do not think the language issue is not a variable here.... The skill-set should be the minimum requirement but unfortunately I do not think I have a good skill-set here to achieve the objectives or goal. Anyway keep up your good work!
Thank you very much on your explanation, greenjeans. from Yoshi
Thanks for the new version! I confirmed the big progress here. Under the default locale after upgrading, I installed fcitx5 and mozc after adding fonts and then rebooted.
Now I can type and display my language's fonts successfully on Libreoffice. But no success on browsers, editor, and such. Better to have this functionality on editor and browsers.
This is just a quick notes only working only for 1-2 hours. Appreciated on your efforts! I know vuu-do is not for customized languages but English only.
BTW, no success after changing locale, unfortunately. So far, so good! regards, yoshi
I thought you are working 32bit version, right? Mr. oui publshed Devuan Derivatives of my snapshot Devuan CERES Star 32 bit on 2024/02/22 under Devuan Derivative of this forum. Please check with https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6456.
You can try if it is workable or not. I am not sure. Personally I do not know if the development/supports on Devuan ceres 32bit is continuing or not since debian terminates the further /development/supports on debian 13+ 32bit. I personally use Ceres 64 bit version, upgraded roughly 2 months ago.
I need to work with Virtualbox so I stay with 6.12.38-deb13-amd64 kernel. My sources.list is with old format but I have not been alerted to upgrade the sources.list yet. Probably my kernel installed is not newest.
If you are working on 64bit, you need to follow the right procedure in upgrading from Daedalus by installing usrmerge. Without installing usrmerge, you cannot upgrade to ceres properly even if you changed the sources.list properly.
Hopefully you can work further by step-by-step approach for achieving your goal!
yoshi
The website is under construction after re-design ... Several iso's would be coming sooner or later. I do not know the detail but will see.
Please visit https://fluxuan.org/
Why not try another one like betterbird or epyrus?! I'd recommend epyrus since it is easier to switch by copying Mail sub-directory from thunderbird's stuff.
I do not know if you are aware of MiyoLinux Daedalus version that Jim Acklaw released last March under Sourceforge. You will notice Dan made his comment for it by showing his appreciation to Jim as its first reviewer. Jim declares to provide x86_64 version per Devuan release cycle. ... yoshi
I have been failing at the system-update after installation due to wifi issue. Finally I made it by installing cinnamon this time. So I installed connman right away. Seems my PC has been a connection problem with LAN for a while,
By the way, this is very interesting to play with so far. I could install IME of Fcitx plus Mozc to enable to type the local charactors via keyboard from the start so this is the big benefit for those who need to install double byte characters like me assuming that is the default for Chimaera .... I hope.
Cheers!
Hi guys,
I found the duvuanated mint below,
https://all-things-linux.blogspot.com/2 … ition.html
Steps are outlined there. I tested several times but seems to have several constraints.
Thanks, Michaels or alphalpha,
I checked the video you provided and changed the way for the installation.
I specified the boot partition of 200MB under legacy/extlinux instead of legacy/grub then everything was smooth. I had been installing without boot partition under legacy/grub. No success without boot partition under legacy/exlinux. That's why I could not make it.
After re-boot, the default keyboard was german instead of what I selected in installation so I needed press z for "y".
After login, the keyboard setting was OK under the proper localization of the system. Lots of stuff are pre-installed.
Keep up your good work!
michael,
Thanks for your reply. Actually no error message was generated. Repeating to get the same result without any message.
I think I did as you instructed but I might be wrong since your installer is different.
I just confirmed your update is only Oct. issue. When I had checked, I saw two versions with Sept issue there.
I prefer to have your video or the written procedure with picture if you have a time. Then you would have the more customers for your distro hopefully. Cheers!
Hi Michaels,
Thanks for your continuous efforts to release the update every month.
I noticed the Oct. issue was very strange with very tiny size of 13.5MB.
Could you confirm if it is the right one? And kindly add how to install via your Michaels installer as well for me or for us. I have been downloading almost for all update but I have never been succeeding to finish the installation but failing after typing "/dev/sda".
Another thanks!
Yoshi
Hi Hevydevy,
I did install it instead of login. No idea about login name and password so I did so. The installer is like Star so it is debian installer.
It is based on lxde with openbox so a bit different configuration.
Is it helfule?!
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