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#651 Re: Off-topic » Your thoughts on: TheCaseForTheUsrMerge » 2022-06-10 15:35:52
Just my 2 cents: I have approved the usrmerge option when being asked on all new installations that asked that question. I cannot see any reason to not agree. And I haven't seen any problems due to usrmerge in my small home network.
I have some SW in /opt, like FF, LO, TB, tor. All installed from external sources like tarballs from Mozilla, or the deb for a fresher LO version directly downloaded.
#652 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] install offline ATOM editor » 2022-06-09 12:00:24
Or try geany ...
#653 Re: Other Issues » pkgmaster.devuan.org quit serving chimaera updates? » 2022-05-28 14:49:02
You should use deb.devuan.org/merged, see https://www.devuan.org/os/packages
Does its job for me.
#655 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Question about upgrade kernel » 2022-05-26 15:42:16
Don't mix up kernels (linux-image) with kernel headers (linux-headers).
You should not consider mixing distros.
My suggestion is to consider upgrading to Chimaera.
rolfie
#656 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Renew my ip address (dhclient not found) » 2022-05-21 17:12:15
Use su - to become root?
#658 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Synaptic Package List Problems on devuan_beowulf_3.1.1_i386 » 2022-05-12 17:06:42
Welcome. First of all lets have a look at your complete sources.list. Please post here.
Well, Beowulf is oldstable now, stable is Chimaera. Do you have a specific reason not to switch to Chimaera?
rolfie
#659 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » undesireable Motherboard config changes to time and fan settings » 2022-05-12 07:46:22
The first thing that comes to my mind is the bios battery. Maybe that is borderline?
#660 Re: Other Issues » [Ceres] apt: initramfs-tools post-installation error [SOLVED] » 2022-05-09 18:05:46
Maybe it helps: Updated my Daedalus VM w/Mate today, worked fine, no issues.
#661 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Synaptic No Longer Shows Repositories » 2022-05-05 06:43:43
BTW: package-update-indicator installation does not mean you immediately get a notification when an upgrade is available, there is some process in that background that needs to update the package info from the server. This is handled by package kit.
But its working, in my eyes fast and accurate enough.
Though I use a root console and apt to install updates.
#662 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Synaptic No Longer Shows Repositories » 2022-05-04 20:19:13
I repeat my previous post: Got the package-update-indicator installed, but used --no-install-recommends as option. No issues with Synaptic on Cinnamon. Also works on Mate DE.
This pulls in package-kit which is mandatory for package-update-indicator to work. But it does not inflict with Synaptic. gnome-package-kit is not required for update-indicator to work fine.
#663 Re: Installation » how to install linux biowulf » 2022-05-04 16:15:44
Have a look at this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4919 if you want to install the Arch way.
Or do you just want to install a basic system without graphical interface? That can be done with every installer. When you are asked what to install just select basic system utilities, and you end up with a system that just can be operated via cli.
#664 Re: Installation » Why is only main repo is active in sources.list? » 2022-05-03 19:08:20
If I remember correctly about my recent experiences with the installer, that when you select a mirror to install from you will be asked several questions what to add to the sources.list. Then you get the full story. If you do an offline installation you end up with the install media and the simple chimaera main.
Very short to dave's question:
main: free software only
contrib: SW with other than the Debian/Devuan licence, typical example Virtual Box
non-free: propriatary stuff - you want to enable this when you need firmware for your hardware to work
rolfie
#665 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-02 17:40:15
Have a look at: https://superuser.com/questions/760327/ … ed#1407054
Make sure the cd drive in the Devuan machine is empty. Then reboot. Then insert the guest additions from the Device -> Insert GuestAdditions CD Image
#666 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-02 17:19:57
Sounds like a Windose problem. Is that iso by chance mounted on the host? Have you got access rights to that folder?
Is your CentOS another VM on the same host? Then make sure the iso is not assigned to CentOS.
#667 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Devuan and VirtualBox » 2022-05-02 16:32:59
I think you need to be a bit more specific.
* What is the host system?
* Where did you get VBox from? Version?
* Extension pack installed?
* On Linux host: kernel modules built?
To install guest additions on a Debian based Linux guest:
* Insert guest addition iso in guest via menu.
* Get root privilegues with su -
* # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0
* # cd /media/cdrom0
* # sh ./LinuxGuestAdditons.run
In the properties of your guest enable drag'n'drop and clipboard both ways. These settings sometimes require a few boots to work.
rolfie
Edith: corrected the sh command to run the guest additions
#668 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Synaptic No Longer Shows Repositories » 2022-04-28 16:04:51
Got the package-update-indicator installed, but used --no-install-recommends as option. No issues with Synaptic on Cinnamon.
#669 Re: Devuan » [SOLVED] Existential doubt » 2022-04-17 19:59:17
Daedalus /ceres
#670 Re: Other Issues » Scrolling Output in the Console Window » 2022-04-03 09:28:28
Well, there is no generic Devuan console. I guess you are talking about the terminals you can open on the graphical DE. There may of them, Gnome Terminal, Mate Terminal, xterm ....
Why don't you tell us a bit about the environment you are working on?
rolfie
#671 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] ceres sid update errors » 2022-03-23 21:15:25
Clean out your sources.list so that only the relevant entries remain.
In Ceres you should only have:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres main contrib non-freeactive. There are no security updates, no updates, no backports.
rolfie
#672 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Backported kernel update » 2022-03-20 17:33:54
SCNR: Thats why I don't use NVidea at all.
Well, maybe you need to run a setup for your drivers that builds the modules. And you probably also need the headers for the new kernel to do that. I know that I need them for building the VBox kernel modules. Also a manual process.
Try that:
# apt -t beowulf-backports install linux-headers-amd64
rolfie
#673 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Backported kernel update » 2022-03-20 13:19:12
How can I get this done?
Run the previously posted command, that will do the job.
rolfie
#674 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Backported kernel update » 2022-03-20 11:00:27
There's no metapackage for backports kernels like there is for the main kernel. The only updates you would get would be if the kernel version didn't change. ...
I fear that is not 100% true. Besides the backports kernel you may also install the backports metapackage. In case of Beowulf:
# apt -t beowulf-backports install linux-image-amd64Then you will lose the updates of the main kernel packages, but get the updates from backports. You can't have both. This way you get the signed versions of the backports kernels.
I am using backports headers and kernels only, my Chimaera is running now with 5.16.
rolfie
#675 Re: Installation » Chimaera: xfce4 and changing to another window manager » 2022-03-17 20:50:00
I tried to find in the syslog something about this but to no avail. Can this be a problem with the new linux kernel (5.10.0-12)?
Most likely not.
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