ah yes i left out the part about uninstalling the foreign packages first.

The correct result imo is refractainstaller. It might be user error on my part but ive done a few installations of devuan and pick the same configurations each time in regards to locale, keyboard setup etc. Not a big deal, just quirks of the software i suppose.

Ill probably switch to iwd when/if it is ready for devuan. Ive used it in bleeding edge arch and it works quite well, easy to configure using iwctl.

Hi pootler what did you install desktop wise, xfce4?

This issue possibly because you dont have libelogind0 installed?

do

sudo apt install libelogind0

and then yes to remove libsystemd0

then try to install network manager again.

I believe this is the issue, i could be wrong...

edit: I was successfully able to install network manager on devuan beowulf just now.

until wicd is inserted into testing which it wont this release cycle i would be more inclined to use either network manager or connman for ease of use for newbies. Network Manager maybe bloat but it works.

Probably show my age here, Phoebe Cates, song is called Paradise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_RPaoRcy3c

I dont use wifi managers like wicd or network manager so I will share my reliable method. Its all done from the terminal, this has no bells and whistles, icons etc, its all backend work. I keep an eye on my connection through a basic shell script through a status panel.

basic wifi wpa_supplicant setup.

as root user do the following.

wpa_passphrase ESSID PASSPHRASE > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

edit /etc/network/interfaces to look something like below.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

allow-hotplug usb0
iface usb0 inet dhcp

you can control wifi by using sudo ifup wlan0 to bring wifi up and sudo ifdown wlan0 to bring it down.

In any case having auto wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces will connect automatically on boot if you are using devuan beowulf.

You can have multiple wifi wpa_supplicant networks as well and connect to them manually with a bit of editing.

not the symbol, it was "demsg" instead of dmesg.

How do you connect to the internet?

how are you connecting to the internet?

ok thanks.

I was reading the faq at cryptsetup gitlab today and mentioned something similar to ssd drives.

https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetu … dQuestions

i dont want to put in bashrc as these commands will be part of a larger script that also encrypts directories.

I was confused on the positional parameters for what i wanted to achieve.

Below is close to what i want but i still need to figure out how to treat file extensions in and out hence trying to use ${@%.*}" which will probably work in my shell as i think sh is linked to bash in devuan?

#!/bin/sh

encrypt_file () {
	openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -pbkdf2 -iter 20000 -in "$2" -out "$2".aes -k "$3"
}

decrypt_file () {
	openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -salt -pbkdf2 -iter 20000 -in "$2" -out "${2%.*}" -k "$3"
}

while getopts ":ed" opt; do
  case ${opt} in
	e ) encrypt_file "$@"
	;;
	d ) decrypt_file "$@"
	;;
    *)
      ;;
  esac
done

edit: i think i figured out the file extension problem i was having.

decrypt will accept as the -in argument with any file type extension eg; .txt .mp3 etc.., the -out argument with -out "${2%.*}" will bring back the file to its original thus deleting the .aes extension given to it when it was encrypted.

@ Head on a stick, my thinking initially for 2 separate scripts was to establish how to get each one to function independantly of one another and then bring them both into one script?