slackware is alright imo, i  think only one person is maintaining it too ( Patrick Volkerding ).

You can always uninstall packages with slackware to get a minimal system. Installing packages is not that hard either if you bother to learn how to do it, just sayin.

There is daily builds from this uk server as well. http://slackware.uk/people/alien-curren … rrent-iso/

slackware is one of the original linux distro's, its good to see it still around.

Ok thanks for that suggestion ralph and nixer i will give it a  "go"   I would rather have something in the apt repos than have to mess about building software from source.

I tested out the latest netinstall amd64 iso dated 26/4 and not sure if i missed a step or stuffed up the step, but it seems the installer completely misses dpkg-reconfigure locales. Had to manually fix this once installed to disk.

Sorry i should have pointed the link to the correct sdk which is arm-sdk, its a fairly simple process as long as dependencies are met. I managed to do the live-sdk awhile back but will try the arm-sdk tommorow when i have some spare time up my sleeve.

https://git.devuan.org/sdk/arm-sdk

This will build you a image for use on a rpi3

Bit of a miscommunication here i think. Im fairly certain those images are devuan ascii only for the raspberry pi not raspbian images.
I think the live sdk will source those files from the link in your op, not 100% certain. Im might give this a try myself as im thinking of getting an RPi3 to use as a netflix box.

edited for my dyslexia in typing

I installed raspbian many years ago on one of the rpi2's i think. From memory its a process of flashing the filesystem onto an sd card. Take a look at the lakka documentation, very similar. I haven't researched how devuan does it as i dont have an rpi anymore.

http://www.lakka.tv/doc/Alternative-ima … g-methods/

edit: looks like you would need to build your own image via simple distro kit?

https://devuan.org/os/distro-kit

fmt is the command you want. https://linux.die.net/man/1/fmt

This is how i do commands for conky sensors, you may need to play around with the fmt (format) values and the awk values.

sensors | awk 'NR==3{print $3} NR==4{print $3} NR==5{print $3} NR==6{print $3}' | fmt -20

You dont need cut or grep commands, awk can do all the hard work itself.

edit: and the way you want it formatted should be below command.

sensors | awk 'NR==3{print $1,$3} NR==4{print $1,$3} NR==5{print $1,$3} NR==6{print $1,$3}' | fmt -30

I used the same iso and had the same issue with locales and also with tzdata not being set properly.

Cheers, will mark as solved then.

Thanks fsmithred.

I think ive fixed the issue, dont really understand the problem though. Sound is now working with firefox firejailed.

See here: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/2042
and here: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3303

"noroot removes all user groups, nogroups redundant"

in

/etc/firejail/firefox-common.profile 

go to line 40 and comment "nogroups".

see if that works for you ?

That explains it, thanks for that. I was able to get a working system with just standard system utils but i had to run dpkg --reconfigure tzdata and locales even though that should have been done at installation time.

Not sure if the iso i downloaded was currupted or not but ive tried 4 times to install this release. The checksum matched up ok to the iso.
I will download another iso and see if it happens again to rule out corruption. Before i go any further into details, has something changed with standard system utilities in tasksel as in the ascii installation i did not choose anything in tasksel and the installs went fine (wanted minimal system setup). Do i need to keep that box ticked? the iso was the amd64 netinstall.

I cant get any debug info from the boot messages as they dont get logged, but something along the lines of checkroot.sh failed and the system becomes read only. I have installed openrc and sysv inits.

edit: the hostname is missing when it finishes booting from grub, so there is a system there just malfunctioning one. Another oddity is that i cant backspace, when i do the cursor just moves forward. Im just testing on a partition too so these installs are not critical or anything.