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#1 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-15 16:09:25
During installation you have the choice: you either allow root login and enter a root password, then you have to use a root console for admin tasks. My preferred method. Or you don't do that then you automatically are assigned to the sudoers group and you have to use a sudo before each admin command. Don't try to mix.
where was that option i must of missed it during setup.
i see, so i forgot to assigned it.
should i reinstall?
#2 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-14 18:42:03
so i went ahead reinstall the distro. cause i messed up. so now i need to fix what i notice afetr trying to update the system.
it gives me this error: talion is not in the sudoers file how do i fix that it?
for wientricks i got thi error.
Using winetricks 20250102 - sha256sum: 9df4af038f04c753f3b0b02817cf60a51d8eac32357d070c45dfd139b93bd3f5 with wine-10.0 (Debian 10.0~repack-6) and WINEARCH=win64
No arguments given, so tried to start GUI, but neither zenity
nor kdialog were found. Please install one of them if you want
a graphical interface, or run with --help for more options.
#3 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-14 16:57:42
now its not loading.
#4 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-14 16:52:49
Everybody experienced would be very pleased if you could put any console output between code tags, including the command you have used. To write code tags use the button that is labelled code above the editing window, and paste the text between the starter and the end tag. Makes console outputs look like in a console, much more readable and more friendly for the contributors.
I will do this for you as an example by copying your last output and! adding line numbers like a reasonable text editor can do.
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
1 #deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0.0-rc1 excalibur amd64 - netinstall 20250913]/ excalibur contrib main non-free-firmware
2
3 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
4 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
5 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
6
7 #deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
8
9 # excalibur-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
10 # see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … _backports
11 deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
12 deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
13
14 # This system was installed using removable media other than
15 # CD/DVD/BD (e.g. USB stick, SD card, ISO image file).
16 # The matching "deb cdrom" entries were disabled at the end
17 # of the installation process.
18 # For information about how to configure apt package sources,
19 # see the sources.list(5) manual.Your sources.list contains 19 lines of text.
Line 5 and line 11 are (partial) duplicates. Line 11 causes the error messages you are getting.
My advise: get rid of every past line 8 and try again. Attention: there has to be an empty line at the end of the file.
sorry for the trouble, im new ath this distro. still learning how it. i removed the lined an now updating works.
thanks for the help. got winetricks to install.
#5 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-14 15:58:50
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0.0-rc1 excalibur amd64 - netinstall 20250913]/ excalibur contrib main non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
# excalibur-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debi … _backports
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main non-free-firmware
# This system was installed using removable media other than
# CD/DVD/BD (e.g. USB stick, SD card, ISO image file).
# The matching "deb cdrom" entries were disabled at the end
# of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.
#6 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-14 01:26:57
This is saying line 5 is a duplicate
/etc/apt/sources.list:5
so i remove the fifth line?
#7 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-13 17:36:55
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-small (main/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-hidpi (main/dep11/icons-64x64@2.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-large (main/dep11/icons-128x128.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (non-free-firmware/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (non-free-firmware/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (non-free-firmware/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (non-free-firmware/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (non-free-firmware/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (non-free-firmware/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (non-free-firmware/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-small (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-hidpi (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-64x64@2.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-large (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-128x128.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-small (main/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-hidpi (main/dep11/icons-64x64@2.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-large (main/dep11/icons-128x128.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (non-free-firmware/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (non-free-firmware/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Packages (non-free-firmware/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (non-free-firmware/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target Translations (non-free-firmware/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (non-free-firmware/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11 (non-free-firmware/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-small (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-hidpi (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-64x64@2.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
Warning: Target DEP-11-icons-large (non-free-firmware/dep11/icons-128x128.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:11
i got this error after saving it. what should i do?
#8 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-13 17:33:57
Don't get confused by tux_99's reply. What I gave you is a correct /etc/apt/sources.list for Excalibur. The traditional format.
Now what tux_99 has posted is the new DEB822 format replacing the sources.list in the future. For the time being I would recommend to stay with the traditional format.
cool sweet, so i avoid using his an use the current format.
sounds like im all set then .
#9 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-13 17:21:06
FYI, this is how it looks on my Devuan Excalibur install with backports and non-free stuff enabled, but I'm not an expert of apt so can't guarantee that it's correct:
user@vm:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ pwd
/etc/apt/sources.list.d
user@vm:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ more devuan*sources
::::::::::::::
devuan-backports.sources
::::::::::::::
# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
Suites: excalibur-backports
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
::::::::::::::
devuan.sources
::::::::::::::
# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
Suites: excalibur
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
Suites: excalibur-security
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
Suites: excalibur-updates
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
do i have to hae it the same way or no?
sounds like im ok to save it.
whats next after saving it.
do i update? since sounds like im done with adding new lines.
#10 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-13 16:47:27
A well defined sources.list looks like this.
No deb-src because this is only needed if you do coding and compiling code.
And no proposed-updates, not required for the normal user, and slightly risky, packages are coming in the release before testing is fully done. Only useful in very specific cases.
Backports is added but commented out. Only useful in very specific cases.
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware#deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
i see, so thats how it suppose to look. so no dev-src is needed so these are the only ones we need for
i went ahead erased the first two then added these four lines. is tehre any others i need before i save it?
#11 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-13 16:15:42
No, there can only be one codename on a line. You need a separate line for each codename.
how about this?
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-proposed-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-proposed-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
#12 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-13 03:55:03
The four labels main, contrib, non-free and non-free-firmware are known as sections;
The four labels excalibur, excalibur-updates, excalibur-secority and excalibur-proposed-updates are known as codenames;
The URL http://deb.devuan.org/merged is known as the base.
The prefix label deb indicates that the line is for binary packages, and the prefix label deb-src indicates that the line is for source packages.
Each sources.list line includes (in order) a prefix label, the base, a codename, and one or more sections. You can have it as 4 lines with a single section on each, or as a single line with all four sections.
I suggested you have one deb line for each codename, with all 4 sections, and one deb-src line for each codename, with all 4 sections.
i see, so when adding a new line the
so like this is good?
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur excalibur-updates excalibur-security excalibur-proposed-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
#13 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-13 01:34:50
The order is not important, but duplicates might be a bother. I.e., you should remove the top two, because the are duplicates for excalibur/main and excalibur/non-free-firmware.
In addition, you should probably add sources.list lines for excalibur-updates and excalibur-proposed-updates ... also using sections main, contrib, non-free and non-free-firmwares. With that you would be more "future ready".
duplicates? when adding a contrib one i dont need the first one an the security one?
how should it look for deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware?
where does excalibur-updates an excalibur-proposed-updates go to?
sorry for all of these questions im learning how this works. want to make sure im doing this correctly.
#14 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-12 16:03:03
so under
#deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0.0-rc1 excalibur amd64 - netinstall 20250913]/ excalibur contrib main no>
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
is this ok to do?
i put contrib one under security.
will this cause any issues?
#15 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-11 16:11:19
where do i put the deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware in sources.list?
#16 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-11 00:09:39
goats advice to use pkgmaster is no good.
On the top of the forum is a link to the Devuan page. Its worth following the link. Here is something to read:
https://www.devuan.org/os/packages
A full blown correct sources entry should look like this:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
BTW: to use
su
to become root is also outdated.
You need to use
su -
or the path setting will be incorrect.
i see i give this a read. https://www.devuan.org/os/packages
for deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
i use that an give it a shot.
i put deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware in terminal right?
as for su. that makes sense. so devuan uses a different su thing.
so instead of su its su -
i defiantly make a copy if i mess around with sources.d
#17 Re: Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-10 16:34:55
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free
gave methis error
bash: deb: command not found
i was able to get quake 1 enhanced to install. so that worked.
got wine32 to install.
now i just need to get winetricks installed.
#18 Other Issues » Hi, new here just joined devuan. need help with games an programs. » 2025-11-09 21:49:51
- TalionRanger117
- Replies: 37
Hi, there i just joined devuan after seeing it has a release dof excalibur. i installed it on my lenovo legion go device. so far i managed it very well.
some issues, i notice winetricks is not available. i couldnt install quake enhanced from heroic games launcher.
i couldnt install wine32.
how do i install winetricks, wine32 an fix quake 1 enhanched? quake enhance refuses to install. it starts installing, but, it fails after it finishes.
how do i update devuan?
otherwise great job, its very smooth an stable an performance is great. just need help with some programs an games.
thanks.
oh, im using xfce distribution. i installed discover store too. im using lenovo legion go device.
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