Here's a brief description -

Make a directory to work in. (or make a spare partition and mount it).
Do a debootstrap install in that directory.
Chroot into that directory and run commands like you were running that system.

All those libraries will not be used by the host system, because they are in the wrong place. They will be used in the chroot system, because they are in the right place for that system. (chroot means 'change root' so it treats your work directory like the root of the filesystem.)

I'm pretty sure you can find debootstrap instructions somewhere on this forum.

OK, sorry for the trouble. Here's what happened - I extended the expiration date back on Sept. 9, but I wasn't able to send the key to a keyserver due to network problems. I even used that key a couple weeks ago and didn't notice a problem, because the key is not expired on my system.

Key was uploaded to pgp.mit.edu a few minutes ago, and it show up on their website. It may take a little time to propagate to other keyservers. Meanwhile, here's the sha256sums directly from the file I uploaded to files.devuan.org back when the isos got uploaded. (May?) It matches what's on the download site.

76584ce7183993306af8b00edc8ffce3a1dc69b10f0a97e0a6302d49b0a63858  devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso
8f535c235897303a5d55266858ffe9fe6c4d3e830f609c77c406f6e4aed0befa  devuan_ascii_2.0.0_i386_desktop-live.iso

I get this occasionally. Usually, it happens to me in thunar, but it has happened in firefox. Usually, the first item in the drop-down menu is the one that gets selected, but a few days ago, I right-clicked on a firefox tab to look at the context menu there, and it "automatically" selected "Move to new window" which is the fourth item in the list.

I think the problem is caused by movement of the mouse when right-clicking. Normally, if you right-click and release, the context menu stays open. If you right click and drag the mouse to highlight an item in the menu and then release, that item gets chosen/executed. I'm pretty sure I was not careful with the mouse when I clicked on that ff tab, and I moved the mouse enough during the click to get that fourth item.

Did the error message tell you to run apt --fix-broken install? What happened when you did that? Were any other packages named? There must be more information in output.

Welcome back, dzz! Good to see you in action again. I hope all is well.

New exegnu boots and installs fine. Boot screen says 'Debian'. Installing base-files might change that to Devuan. Putting something in /etc/lsb-release will also work.

Removable media show up on the desktop, but won't mount in konqueror. Error message:

No supported mounting methods were detected on your system.

No boot splash on uefi boot in the installed system. (That one is my fault - an extra "/" in refractasnapshot.)

Refractainstaller did not disable autologin. Log shows an error for

sed -e expression #2 char #3: unterminated s command

.
I looked at it, and it appears to be terminated correctly. Maybe the ^ on ^AutoLogin needs to be escaped. I'll try that.

All in all, the new exegnu looks good. I'm a little envious that you got it under 700mb. I couldn't do that with refracta this time.

Edit: Found it. There's an extra "sed -i -e" on line 1406 of refractainstaller-yad.

Please post your sources.list and any repos enabled under sources.list.d.
Also, post the output of apt-get install sshfs and dpkg -l *ssh*

Where did you set that?

That's what I do on my 12-year-old Dell laptop. There always seems to be a wall outlet nearby, and I don't have to worry about working too long and running down the battery.

You'll also need to install the linux-headers-<version> that matches your running kernel.
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

My first guess is that the uuid in the resume file in your initrd needs to be changed. Try running update-initramfs -u and see if that fixes it.

Yes, install the wireless firmware after you install the system to hard drive. I forget which iso you're using, too. If you're using one of the installer isos, you could use an ethernet cable during the installation and pull packages from the repository. The live-isos just install from the media.

uname -r is a command that returns the version number of the running kernel. Putting it in the package name like that is using command substitution, and you can run that apt-get command exactly the way I posted it. Bash will substitute the kernel version, and you'll get the right linux-headers package. It's also possible to represent it like this: linux-headers-`uname -r`. It does the same thing, and it's easier to type, but it's less visible in a forum post.