KDE Desktop

sisqonrw · 2023-12-23 19:44:04

Hi how can i install devuan with KDE desktop?

golinux · 2023-12-23 20:37:40

Welcome to Devuan. Please refer to the Install Guide which includes screenshots of the installer options. #17 lists the options available for DE or WM.

sisqonrw · 2023-12-23 21:39:46

OK i understand.
how can set i the init system like OpenRC, runit, SysV?
is a usb iso version available to test it before?

Last edited by sisqonrw (2023-12-23 21:40:33)

GlennW · 2023-12-23 22:07:45

Hi, yes to all those questions.

The installer will go through some stages. you get the choice of desktop (kde, etc... I only use kde plasma)

The choice of init is near the end, I like open-rc as well.

The live usb version is not kde. (iirc)

we have beautiful theme colours as well.

I love using Devuan, I think you will too. :-)

happy hollidays!

sisqonrw · 2023-12-24 11:45:27

Thank you for your reply and merry Christmas. greatings to your nice country australia.

i am a newbie. which init system can you avoid me? which one is stable, fast, modern and with a lot of advantages?

GlennW · 2023-12-24 22:09:17

Hi, thank you for the tidings, all the best to you and yours.

I don't know the answer. I use open-rc since I started using Devuan.

I find it easy to use, and services and daemons may be started and stopped, restarted with sysvinit service calls.
(so I can still use the same commands, but it's a bit simpler (for me).

I started using open-rc when I switched over from pclinux.

There's another new one peeps are talking about, but I have not tried it,

runit (i dont know it's real name).

by the way, you could try one and if you don't like it install an other one.

see how you go.

sisqonrw · 2023-12-25 15:51:36

ok i wanted to try and test

devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop-live

but after boot there is black terminal screen and askin login and passwort.

is that normal?

normally the iso distros starts fully till i the the kde, xfce desktop.

golinux · 2023-12-25 16:18:45

From https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan :

desktop-live: Explore the default Xfce desktop before installing. Then install easily and quickly from the live session using the refractainstaller. Firmware is installed but can easily be removed.

isabena · 2023-12-25 17:54:36

sisqonrw wrote:

ok i wanted to try and test
devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop-live
but after boot there is black terminal screen and askin login and passwort.
is that normal?
normally the iso distros starts fully till i the the kde, xfce desktop.

sounds to be in tty

don't know what you've done
best to try once more

GlennW · 2023-12-25 20:24:01

sisqonrw wrote:

ok i wanted to try and test
devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop-live
but after boot there is black terminal screen and askin login and passwort.
is that normal?
normally the iso distros starts fully till i the the kde, xfce desktop.

The live-desktop passwords are in the a text file from the download page...
https://devuan.rosset.eu.org/devuan-fil … p-live.txt

You can burn the iso to DVD or use dd or cat to image a USB thumb drive.

User name: devuan		Password: devuan
Admin name: root		Password: toor 

Maintained by fsmithred (key id 0xA73823D3094C5620 on pgp.mit.edu)
Built with the Devuan SDK, live-sdk module by jaromil and parazyd...

Generally, You wont need to login as a user, it should boot all the way to the desktop without asking, only root needs a PW.

If it won't boot, ... did you verify the download before you wrote it to a usb?

All the best.

ExposeGlobalistsMadness · 2023-12-26 01:53:24

sisqonrw wrote:

ok i wanted to try and test
devuan_daedalus_5.0.0_amd64_desktop-live
but after boot there is black terminal screen and askin login and passwort.
is that normal?

The desktop live iso may have been sufficient to launch a desktop environment, but you can always install one. Setup your timezone and other useful settings with menu-config, update your system, and then run tasksel:

sudo menu-config
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo tasksel

In tasksel, you can choose to install "Devuan desktop environment" and various different desktop environments, including KDE.
You might have to fix something with debconf, in my experience, if there is a failure with tasksel. Maybe someone reading this could explain why the following fix_db.pl instruction might help. This tended to maybe just happen if I hadn't updated the system first, in my experience, and if I recall correctly:

sudo ./usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl

Then:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
sudo reboot

That could save you or others from trying to reinstall a system. Tasksel is useful for netinstalls, and I suppose it shouldn't be necessary for Desktop live isos like yours unless one wants to use it to perform a quick, handy installation of additional desktop environments.

sisqonrw · 2023-12-26 20:12:37

i do not download it 100% or copy it to usb stick 100%. now it works.

sisqonrw · 2023-12-28 21:12:48

one question. which init has the xfce iso live version?

and is there also a kde iso live version?

golinux · 2023-12-28 21:43:58

sisqonrw wrote:

one question. which init has the xfce iso live version?

Same as the installer isos sysvinit.

sisqonrw wrote:

and is there also a kde iso live version?

No. But you can download and add KDE after installation.

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