What a knotty mess. One wouldn't think that uninstalling xfce4 would leave things such as vlc and libreoffice orphaned.

I'm guessing that you inherited the XFCE desktop environment from whatever install media you used (maybe even the official Devuan installer). The million dollar question is how XFCE was installed in that media. I wouldn't know the answer to that, even if I knew which installer you used. But we can work backwards based on a premise: XFCE was most likely installed using a metapackage (e.g., task-xfce-desktop) that pulled in another metapackage (e.g., xfce4). Once we're dealing with metapackages of metapackages, a lot of stuff gets dragged in as dependencies.

Try running aptitude why vlc and aptitude why libreoffice and repeat with a few other packages in your list of "automatically installed but no longer required" that are clearly not a part of XFCE. You'll probably find a non-xfce metapackage that brought in these applications as dependencies. Manually install that metapackage then uninstall xfce4. Not a quick and easy solution, but I think it would do the trick.

EDIT: The suggestion in rolfie's thread (installing task-mate-desktop) sounds quite promising.

All wireless dongles from ThinkPenguin and Technoethical would work out of the box with Devuan because they run on libre firmware, which is included by default in any Debian/Devuan linux kernel. Both companies are great. The dongles are listed on each company's website as well as on the Free Software Foundation's "Respects Your Freedom" page (http://fsf.org/ryf). There are tiny ultra-portable dongles (less expensive) as well as bigger ones with bigger antennas for increased range (more expensive).

All things being equal, go with whichever company is closer to you for shorter transit/faster delivery. ThinkPenguin is in the United States (New Hampshire) and Technoethical is in Europe (Romania).

P.S. I've been doing some reading on /tmp and tmpfs and it seems that on Debian/Devuan /tmp is a normal directory by default. For /tmp to be a tmpfs, user has to add an entry in /etc/fstab.

I can confirm that on my ASCII installation /tmp is a regular directory (notice that /tmp does not appear in the last column):

bruno@thinkpad:~$ df -h | grep tmpfs
tmpfs           773M  1.2M  771M   1% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           2.0G   31M  1.9G   2% /run/shm
tmpfs           3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           772M   32K  772M   1% /run/user/1000

1. The checkroot-bootclean.sh service (service file is in /etc/init.d/, link in /etc/rcS.d/)
2. At boot
3. Via TMPTIME variable in /etc/default/rcS

Is this correct?

Xournal supports PDF annotating and I find it perfectly usable (although my needs are admittedly simple).

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/edit-pdfs-xournal

Yes, removing the "sleep 0.5" line entirely is the way to make the script work as quickly as possible.

You're welcome

Ron, it works for me from desktop shortcut as well.

Did you remember to make the script executable? If it isn't, the first executable atril found in your PATH is the real one instead of our wraparound script, causing our fix to fail silently. Please do $ sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/atril. Also, did you remember to $ sudo apt install wmctrl? Try these two, then give the desktop shortcut another shot.

Flatpak and AppImages work fine in Devuan ASCII and Devuan Jessie. There's also the (distro-agnostic) nix package manager, which can be used concurrently with native package manager.

If you are looking to go 100% free software (including graphics, WiFi, and even BIOS), then get a laptop with Libreboot. I run Devuan ASCII on a T400 with Libreboot and it runs great, 0 issues.

You can get a T400 (or an X200 if you are looking for something slightly smaller) from Technoethical: https://tehnoetic.com/

Vikings also carries the X200: https://store.vikings.net/libre-friendl … f-certfied

I have a local mirror of ASCII amd64. It requires 1.4 GiB for the devuan-specific packages, 57 GiB for packages that are used as-is from Debian Stretch.

It's up to you if you want to include the packages that are used from Debian as-is in your mirror or not. Details here:
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan_mir … hrough.txt

HTH,
Bruno

You must have at least one unofficial repository in /etc/apt/sources.list, since most of these packages (libopencv-core2.4 libavfilter5 libopencv-imgproc2.4 libavdevice55) are not in Devuan's main, contrib, or non-free repositories. Two of the packages (libav-tools libtbb2) are in the Devuan repositories, but the unofficial repository you are using must have a more recent version, which is why apt is trying to install unofficial/untrusted versions of these packages as well.

If what you need is libav-tools, disable the unofficial repository and install the package from Devuan's repository. (I'd stay away from third-party repositories in general--in addition to the trust issue, it can cause dependency hell down the road.)