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#277 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » fvwm or fvwm3 what to install? » 2024-01-26 16:53:56

Just a hint to the OP. He was talking about 2 versions. I did find 3 ....

Its up to him to try them one by one.

#278 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » fvwm or fvwm3 what to install? » 2024-01-26 16:49:34

# apt list fvwm*

fvwm-crystal/stable,stable 3.4.1+dfsg-3 all
fvwm-icons/stable,stable 20070101-7 all
fvwm1/stable 1.24r-57+b1 amd64
fvwm1/stable 1.24r-57 i386
fvwm3/stable 1.0.6a+ds-1 amd64
fvwm3/stable 1.0.6a+ds-1 i386
fvwm/stable 1:2.7.0-2 amd64
fvwm/stable 1:2.7.0-2 i386

3 different versions in the repo.

#279 Re: Installation » Error installing chromium browser » 2024-01-23 16:07:35

Looks like Synaptic wants to fetch version 114, while I get

# apt list chromium
Auflistung… Fertig
chromium/stable-security 120.0.6099.224-1~deb12u1 amd64
chromium/stable-security 120.0.6099.224-1~deb12u1 i386

# apt policy chromium
chromium:
  Installiert:           (keine)
  Installationskandidat: 120.0.6099.224-1~deb12u1
  Versionstabelle:
     120.0.6099.224-1~deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security/main amd64 Packages
     119.0.6045.199-1~deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages

Maybe you just need to run an apt update on the root console before, or tell Synaptic to refresh the repos.

#280 Re: Other Issues » System starts without modules following an upgrade » 2024-01-22 22:38:44

Then you were lucky for two years. Too bad. Try again tomorrow ...

#281 Re: Forum Feedback » [SOLVED] Quote Button » 2024-01-22 22:36:34

Ladies and gentlemen, calm down, get your emotions down.

I don't care if the quote button is still available or not. I can use the quote function the way it I want to use it.

Devuan is a great deriviate of Debian w/o systemd, and nothing more, it won't save the world. The Devuan team is small and just capable of doing a great job of supplying replacements for some packages that need alternatives. But they can't save the FOSS world from changing. And changes not related to systemd that drip down from Debian may simply need to be accepted (e.g. this su - issue, usrmerge ... ). And the Devuan team is not responsible for Window managers, X11, and other topics that are requested.

I am very happy Devuan exists.

This forum is a user forum that is supposed to help users, and nothing that is relevant to coding and design of software.

If I speak for myself, I am a hardware engineer. I was happy about writing one or the other XLS macro during my business life. I would never be able to code anything more complicated than such things. And I guess we have 99% of contributors here that are sort of the same, mainly users. Don't bitch at the moderators.

Just my two cents ...

#282 Re: Other Issues » System starts without modules following an upgrade » 2024-01-22 22:14:54

Well, you should expect that ceres sometimes does break ... Its unstable. Try again tomorrow.

#283 Re: Documentation » How the heck do I get wireguard to be always on? » 2024-01-22 22:13:18

openrc is nothing but some sort of overhead on sysvinit. Give those scripts a try, I guess they will work alright.

#284 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Help! I cannot get Pipewire working. » 2024-01-22 17:40:10

Following that guide exactly did work for me. Pipewire works flawlessly on my travelling laptop.

#287 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] fstrim command not found » 2024-01-21 13:02:53

The path. Thats why you get command not found.

There was a change in Debian some releases ago that moved the su command into a different package and changed the behaviour. I think there is a hint in the Buster/Beowulf release notes.

#289 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] fstrim command not found » 2024-01-21 12:23:48

How did you try to get root access? A simple su or a su -? Give the

~$ su - 

a try.

#290 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Problem with udevadm and initramfs on boot » 2024-01-20 19:33:10

I guess it has something to do with usrmerge, I would guess you will need to activate/install usrmerge. There are a few threads in this forum ...

#292 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Cloudflare WARP, how to install? » 2024-01-17 21:36:26

You do not understand what is going on?

Simple explanation: the cloudflareclient only is available for Debian releases, the provider don't know and care about Devuan at all. So if you want something that might possibly work on Devuan you must use the corresponding Debian release name for Daedalus which is Bookworm.

The two dependencies are downloaded from Devuan, so don't worry. If you don't trust the procedure install them beforehand.

Anyhow, there is no warranty that that package will work on Daedalus. You need to determine if it is essential for you, and if it is worth a try. I am showing you whats wrong with the procedure, I haven't used or installed that package, no need for it.

Anyhow, I would try to use a different method anyway: I'd check if I could track down a deb file, download that to /tmp and to install it with dpkg -i and not fiddle with any non Devuan repository into my sources.list.

#294 Re: Installation » Installation from daedalus desktop-live boots to GRUB Rescue » 2024-01-14 14:41:10

On such an old netbook your best choice is to use legacy install. You possibly never will get happy trying to use such a crappy efi implementation.

#295 Re: Installation » Installation from daedalus desktop-live boots to GRUB Rescue » 2024-01-13 20:23:10

Is that netbook one of this very new designs? Then it is possible that its an uefi only bios, no more CSM mode. I own such a laptop manufactured Dec 2020, an Acer Aspire 5.

The installation media has to be booted either in legacy mode or uefi mode, one medium for both installation methods. This mode determines the grub installation method.
One way to do that could be the boot override option. On my X570 boards this is the F8 key, on my laptop F12. I see there a USB stick twice. As example one entry "Toshiba 8G", a second time the same stick as "UEFI Toshiba 8G". Guess what that means.

Another more easy way could be the use of Ventoj. That tells you if its booted in legacy or in (u)efi mode.

To make sure you have booted the stick in efi mode fsmithred's hint can be used for a crosscheck.

#296 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Broken update » 2024-01-12 14:58:14

Updated my two Excalibur VMs about 2 weeks ago. Had to delete some symlinks the program complained about. Since then both VMs did update fine, no issues at all. Both encrypted, one with Mate, one with Cinnamon.

#297 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Software MGR Doesn't Update Software & Software Isn't Found » 2024-01-09 20:03:28

What you call SoftwareMGR is no Cinnamon package. Can't find a trace in Synaptic. You need to dig the WWW yourself for its origin and the boundary conditions it requires to work.

My advise: use Synaptic, that works on every of the large DEs.

#298 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Software MGR Doesn't Update Software & Software Isn't Found » 2024-01-09 18:39:16

Ok, your sources.list seems to be fine by now.

This Shutter definitely is no Cinnamon application, haven't got it here.

Try to get used to the console, or have a look at Synaptic.

#299 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Software MGR Doesn't Update Software & Software Isn't Found » 2024-01-09 17:52:30

No. daedalus main is present in line #1 and line #9 (counting every single line including the ones without contents). The order of the first 3 and last 3 lines is slightly different, but since parts of the info is present twice you get the warning.

I would recommend to add "contrib non-free non-free-firmware" to the first 3 lines for the full daedalus repos, and to delete all the rest from line 5 to the end. One empty line is required on the end of the file. I am running my PCs this way.

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 

Some reading about the sources.list: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

#300 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Software MGR Doesn't Update Software & Software Isn't Found » 2024-01-08 09:38:01

I tried to install GIMP using Synaptic Package Manager.

On Cinnamon Synaptic should work fine when the sources.list is setup correctly.

GIMP will show up in the Graphics section as Gnu Image Manipulation Program.

Please show us a

 $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list 

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