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#1 Re: Documentation » Some question about the great Devuan » 2024-09-14 09:57:35

Thanks for the answers, quickfur and Andre. I was really clueless about apt tool...

The init system looks even easier than others !
@Andre, as cs student, I wanna know the max of unix stuff, and while sysVinit is the legacy init, I really want to use it with Devuan.

Thanks again for answers guys, this day I installing and configuring my new system Devuan. I'll be back

#2 Re: Documentation » HOWTO: Post-Installation Configurations » 2024-09-13 21:36:05

For single user system, you guys recommend using only "su" ? or doas ?

#3 Documentation » Some question about the great Devuan » 2024-09-13 21:10:39

unixuser
Replies: 7

Hi everybody,

first, I want to tell that I'm impressed by Devuan, ATM I am trying it into a vm and running a system with a desktop under 200mo RAM is sick... I always used X11, but I think it's time to evolve... So here I am (debian + systemd free + wayland looks the perfect combination).

But before installing on my laptop, I have some fears and questions :

- I never used sysVinit directly (only systemd, openrc et runit), and I find it's hard to find documentation about it. I don't even know how to see what daemon are running. I'll searsh more...

- Why is there a geoclue.agent.desktop into autostart ?

- And the most important for me, the packets managers, apt. I am a total NOOB with apt, so I have idiots questions but... I think a forum is done for that.

I tryed to install, let's say firefox.
>>> "firefox has no installation candidate"

Ok so, I search into devuan packages, I find it is into :  http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/main amd64

I add it into /etc/apt/sources.list OR */sources.list.d/file.list

>>> "this repo does not have a  Realese file"

Whatever the synthax, whatever I add it to /etc/apt/source.list.d/file.list... even adding the [allow-insecure=true] tag... I think when we know how to do it, it is easy as abc, but I can't find the right way.

Sorry for newbitude and thx in advance if anyone answer.

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