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#2376 News & Announcements » We're now 800 strong here! » 2018-11-21 18:22:56
- golinux
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Subject says it all. This little experiment has become quite a resource for Devuan and its users. A huge 'thank you' to everyone who contributes knowledge and friendliness to our community. On to 900 and then . . .
#2377 Re: Off-topic » How to install a Grub from gnome-look.org?. » 2018-11-21 16:32:19
You should be more cautious with unclear content scripts. Such "helpers" can irreparably damage the system.
^^^ This. I have refrained from posting to this thread because sometimes learning takes experiential knowledge. If it borks the system or worse it will be more a memorable lesson than a caution from someone who has been there and done that.
#2378 Re: Other Issues » Frequent aptitude upgrade error » 2018-11-21 07:08:11
Have you tried using deb.devuan.org as per https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list and https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt ?
#2379 Re: Other Issues » How to get youtube-dl-gui? [solved] » 2018-11-15 21:02:35
I'm not zephyr but . . . right click on the panel then "Add new items". "Launcher" is the first option on the list here. There might also be an option to do the in the youtube-dl GUI.
#2380 Re: Other Issues » Problems with an update/grub-customizer. » 2018-11-14 14:51:58
Ha! Mystery solved. Not surprised it doesn't work. Last update was 2014-02-22. A lot has changed since then . . .
#2381 Re: Other Issues » Problems with an update/grub-customizer. » 2018-11-13 15:09:52
O'k if i can understand, after reading this document, i was using the wrong mirrors. Why? ... i don't know, i don't know how it happened ...
The repos were upgraded to a round-robin of over a dozen servers. That upgrade was part of the ASCII release. Always good to read the release notes. 
I changed the sources.list to the new mirrors and update/upgrade the system [the tor mirrors options were not possible to add -- the system never update with them].
Hmmm . . . issues have been reported with tor but I have no experience using the onion address.
But the problem remain, there is no grub-customizer after all this ...
It looks like it's not in the Debian Stretch repos. You can check here. Not in jessie repos either afaict. Where did you get that .deb?
#2382 Re: Other Issues » Problems with an update/grub-customizer. » 2018-11-13 13:49:12
Please read the ### Devuan Package Repositories section of the ASCII release notes.
#2383 Re: Other Issues » Problems with an update/grub-customizer. » 2018-11-12 20:22:53
Please post your sources.list. When I searched our pkginfo.devuan.org I got this:
0 results for "grub-customizer_4.0.6_i386.deb" in any (in 16.058632ms)
#2384 Re: Installation » How do I create a configured raspberry image? » 2018-11-10 17:56:52
I think that the arm-sdk toolkit should do what you want. There are other flavors of SDK here if you want to explore further.
#2385 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Anyone install Kali tools on Devuan? [solved] » 2018-11-10 00:42:57
golinux wrote:ball wrote:I'm well aware. I was suggesting using katoolin on Devuan or MX Linux.
MX Linux just has sysvinit enabled according to Debian's instructions. All of systemd is still intact and can be enabled at user's request. So how would that be different than trying katoolin on Debian itself?
MX Linux does not have systemd installed by default, and they strongly urge users not to use it.
You just repeated what I said. I suspect you don't understand that systemd disabled by default still leaves active systemd elements and hooks. Devuan removes those.
#2386 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Anyone install Kali tools on Devuan? [solved] » 2018-11-09 19:54:08
I'm well aware. I was suggesting using katoolin on Devuan or MX Linux.
MX Linux just has sysvinit enabled according to Debian's instructions. All of systemd is still intact and can be enabled at user's request. So how would that be different than trying katoolin on Debian itself?
#2387 Re: Forum Feedback » Disconnect / Reconnect » 2018-11-08 20:23:10
Maybe this will help:
#2388 Re: Forum Feedback » Disconnect / Reconnect » 2018-11-08 14:56:59
Welcome! I don't quite understand your question but I may know the answer. When you login, there is an option to stay logged in (or something like that). Just tick that box and you won't get bit by the timeout bug.
#2389 Re: Other Issues » BotBot.me still running » 2018-11-08 05:41:25
It's dead here.
#2390 Re: Installation » Sources List all Non-Free ? » 2018-11-08 00:59:15
Well, the question that remains open to me is why such an important question is asked only in expert installs? I see a heavy conflict with this behavior of the installer and the statement posted on the website about non free-firmware (at https://devuan.org/os/source-code)
The website warns about enabling these repositories and even recommends consulting a lawyer before using non-free firmware, but the installer loads it by default without asking? I thought this must have been some misunderstanding, but I just actually tested this on a system with Intel 5300 Wifi and indeed the installer does not ask at all and silently loads the non-free firmware.
That statement was written a long time ago and I agree that section should be updated to explain the current policy.
Imho, even if the installer finds hardware that needs non-free firmware, who says the user wants to use this hardware at all? If the Devuan policy is that non-free firmware might be harmful and only enabled with care, the installer imho should not decide this for users only in expert mode.
I remember the debate but not the details for the decision to install non-free make non-free available to install if needed so have requested clarification of how that came about. As soon as I know, you will too.
#2391 Re: Installation » Sources List all Non-Free ? » 2018-11-08 00:09:53
Not sure how this is implemented, but personally, I find it unacceptable to enable these sources without asking the user for confirmation first (is this really the case?). I was also rather disappointed to find these repos enabled by default in the embedded builds.
fsmith red explained it very clearly.
#2392 Re: Devuan » Can Devuan have kFreeBSD? » 2018-11-06 15:55:19
No chance of that happening unless we have a massive influx of devs willing to take it on.
#2393 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to get more up-to-date libraries & dev tools » 2018-11-05 17:33:38
#2394 Re: Other Issues » How to authorize for the IRC channel? » 2018-11-05 00:42:52
@sgage . . . freenode did that because of the relentless spammers,
#2397 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » ASCII - Some windows no scrollbars, no field borders » 2018-11-03 14:29:21
I'm not seeing gtk2-engines-xfce and gtk3-engines-xfce in that list. desktop-base should have brought those in. That's for jessie. I'll fire up VB later and check what's there in ascii.
Also, depending on your setup you may have to add the theme to /root
#2398 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » ASCII - Some windows no scrollbars, no field borders » 2018-11-02 17:33:02
Did you install desktop-base? That should give you the default darkpurpy theme which uses Clearlooks-Phenix-DarkPurpy theme that includes an OB theme. Or you can just choose that theme and not get the darkpurpy grub and login. Note that since that was captured, the icons were recolored to a nice purpy color also.
*Edit* For this theme to work properly it needs GTK2 and GTK3 and something Xfce specific. The regular clearlooks theme breaks badly in ASCII. desktop-base pulls in all the necessaries.
#2399 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » System is brought down by surf-git running performance site » 2018-10-31 15:12:31
Try submitting by email rather than reportbug
#2400 Re: Installation » Sylpheed 3.5.1+2+b1 ---> 3.6.99 » 2018-10-29 22:47:18
Hello:
golinux wrote:Our pkginfo.devuan.org comes in handy.
Thanks for the info.
But I was using the package browser page: http://devuanpackages.viralds.it/ and could not find it.
Then I used SPM with the http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-backports main contrib non-free repository checked and it did not show up either.What am I missing?
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I'm surprised that http://devuanpackages.viralds.it/ is still functional at all. It was an early contribution to Devuan but now we have our own in-house version. amprolla3 has a way of redirecting to Debian that might have stumped both those searches. Links to https://pkginfo.devuan.org are all over the Devuan website along with other useful resources.
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