There does not seem to be a metapackage in debian for the ukui desktop. It looks like you have to install the parts separately. I tried a few that I thought would pull in the main parts of the desktop, but they did not. (ukui-session-manager, ukui-sessionserver, ukui-desktopserver).

I would expect to see a package called ukui, or ukui-desktop and probably task-ukui-desktop, too. Didn't find them in sid or at salsa.debian.org.

You could install the ukui parts after an install of the base system without a desktop, or you could install the base system and drop to a shell before exiting the installer, and install the parts in a chroot. (the installer makes this easy). My preference is to reboot into the installed base system first, and then add other things. Seems to be safer and easier in the long run.

Another helpful tip - you can avoid installing Recommends with:

apt --no-install-recommends install <package>

Redshift will install without geoclue this way. (Edit: and without avahi-daemon.)

"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

You'll also need to recompile the kernel to support aufs. (or use one that does support it)

Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand what you're trying to do.

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After update, it's gone.

$ apt policy libcgmanager0
libcgmanager0:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)

I don't understand what you are saying here, but it sounds wrong.

It is not mandatory for the installer to format the chosen partition(s) but it is mandatory for them to have a filesystem if you want them to contain files, and formatting is the default setting.

You can partition and format before running the installer and tell the installer not to format. That's a checkbox in the options menu of the graphical installer and it's a config file setting in the cli installer.

You have the choice to install the entire system to one partition, or you could optionally have separate partitions for /boot and/or /home.

The installer doesn't know what to do with your old home or the user configs it contains. It's up to you to figure out any conflicts caused by mismatched or missing config files caused by sharing a home between two different operating systems.

It shouldn't matter that your partition was mounted, because you should not be selecting that pre-existing home partition during the installation. Please be aware that the default action is to format any partitions you select. If you select a partition with data you want to keep, you will lose it.

I built live-boot packages with the fix and put them here for people to use until debian builds them. I really hope we don't have to fork live-boot for this.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/

live-boot, live-boot-initramfs-tools and live-boot doc all from 2022-12-16.

You might have older deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives but if they're from beowulf, they're a lot less likely to work than if they are previous versions from chimaera.

I tested on a T450s, running amd64.

Is this an issue with client-side decorations? If so, make sure gtk3-nocsd is installed.

For the live isos, root password is toor, user name is devuan and user's password is devuan.

Edit: It's not a CSD problem. I just got the same behavior. I added fluxbox, logged out and into fluxbox, changed the display with lxrandr from 1600x900 to 1360x768. Firefox lost its window border and controls. I changed back to 1600x900 using lxrandr and the window borders did not return.

I'm back in xfce now and everything is normal.

The version of live-boot in daedalus/ceres is still broken. Use the deb packages for live-boot and live-boot-initramfs-tools in the same sourceforge directory I linked in my last post.

Make sure you dd the iso to the whole device, not to a partition. ( to /dev/sdb and not to /dev/sdb1 for example.)

You might be running into this problem:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5096