Alright. Is there a way to get that stuff on there via sneakernet? Also vim sucks so I'd love to know about any GUI text editors for linux available as an executable and whose interface wasn't designed primarily for use by an octopus.

I more or less already explained this in the other topic. I want these steps to be repeatable in a situation where you need to configure stuff before exposing your machine to the internet, or the machine is meant to be airgapped. That's why I'm being so adamant about having the source file/tarballs. Though a preferable alternative would be a GUI based text editor/VMware that took the Pale Moon route and made their programs able to be run without installing them.

http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/

Download tarball, extract tarball, click executable, do you tasks. Simple and hassle free. More programmers need to follow this example.

No idea how to check, but I'm starting to wonder if the install itself might screwed up. Or perhaps the Lenovo L380 has hardware quirks that cause problems for devuan. Any diagnostic tools that can tell me whether or not I need to use a different build?

Checking config.log might help but again, I don't know it is or how to search for it.

Back after having to takecare of a few things.

I tried grabbing the source files for KVM with apt source like you suggested. Attempting this results in the following error:

E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list

Seeing as how you provided no such links I need to know these URIs and where to put them.

I tried using the apt-get install method as well in the link you gave. This attempt starts out with no hiccups but encounters a problem down the line stating several items 404'd. It recommended throwing in --fix-missing. I tried that and no errors popped up this time. But I'm not sure if that got anything working.

In either case KVM doesn't show up on the applications menu at all, so I can't run it, and I have yet another problem that needs to be fixed.

I know, right? Intuitive software design with immediate and conveyant feedback? Menus? Icons? A mouse? That stuff's for peasants. Only dumb people like clicking on things. Us true Rick and Morty fans all know the only real way to use a computer is to spend years of your precious life slaving away reading manuals and memorizing thousands of keyboard polka dances. That way you can treat your machine like the glorified typewriter it was always meant to be. We GNU/Linux user love CLI, CLI is our precious babby. Windows and other proprietary heretics don't worship CLI like we worship CLI. That's why proprietary OSes are the minority of the market share of OS usage and we dominate the world with our Year of the Linux Deskto...

Oh, right.

http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/030923c
http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/030924c

Seriously though, curb your autism. The overwhelming majority of CLI programs are needlessly convoluted dumpster fires unsuitable for tasks that don't demand complexity. I laid out a specific goal in mind with a specific use case and you're derailing it for no good reason other than to stroke your own ego. I have no qualms about making adjustments to my "recipe" so long as the end results align with my goals. But if I'm shopping for a new wrench set and you're badgering me to buy some of your lima beans instead then you're just wasting both my time and yours and shouldn't be posting in the help section at all.

I have a need for a solid, stable, simple (or as close as you can get to it) privacy solution. But I am a very busy individual with a lot on my plate. I have neither the time, the energy, nor the interest to invest in worming my way through the kind of insanity you're endorsing. I have shit that needs to get done. Important shit. Urgent shit. And I need to get it done in as safe and secure a manner as I reasonably can. LOTS of people do.

CLI obsessives like you and your insufferable attitude towards the end user are one of the biggest reasons the modern day tech landscape is the hellspawn of a panopticon that it is. You do at least clearly grasp the threat enough to be using a non-systemd distro in the first place, sure. But you have no grasp on the win conditions for a better future or how to attain it in an actionable manner. In other words, non-intuitive software design holds back software freedom for everyone. You're not fighting the botnet, you're aiding and abetting it.

I will ask you one more time. What GUI text editor for devuan do you recommend the most? Stop beating around the bush and we can stop playing this idiotic game of telephone.

Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press [Enter]

The Lenovo L380 does not have a CD-ROM drive, I burned the iso to a USB image. Pressing Enter does not allow progression regardless of whether the USB is inserted or not.

What should be done differently?

Not too sure what this was meant to accomplish but I don't think it worked.

[username]@[hostname]:~$ file ~/Desktop/palemoon/palemoon
/home/[username]/Desktop/palemoon/palemoon: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=85a9932d8111ba3bb1c58f85331435adab6e79e8, stripped
[username]@[hostname]:~$ dpkg --print-architexture
dpkg: error: unknown option --print-architexture

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' !

Did you mistype the second instruction set perhaps?

Well I'd love to try that but unfortunately I'd need to reinstall everything since I already forgot what I set my root password as. Which wouldn't be an issue, were it not for the fact that the machine I'm doing this on is a TOSHIBA and for some odd reason I can no longer access the BIOS after installing.

This is actually the second time in a row now I've had this issue. The first time I was able to hold down Fn + F12 and reach the boot options, but after my first install I could no longer do this. I was later able to get back in by taking out the battery, running on AC power and then holding Fn and repeatedly pressing F12. Now neither of these options work any longer and I have no idea what the hell is going on. I'm probably going to have to try and flash the BIOS on this damn thing the next chance I get just because this thing is so damn finnicky.

If it helps diagnosis, the power options on the top right of the login screen are all greyed out. Also, this is a non-UEFI model, which is crazy, because my two Lenovos are UEFI capable and they didn't put up anywhere near as much of a fight as this bratty heap of circuits is.