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LibertySysadmin

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How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

Hi all,

I’m currently running Devuan Daedalus with the MATE desktop and I’m interested in installing XLibre. I wasn’t able to find much documentation on how to set it up, and wanted to ask if anyone here has experience with it.

Is there a recommended method for installing XLibre on Devuan?

Do I need to remove or disable anything MATE-related beforehand?

Any potential conflicts I should watch out for?

Thanks in advance for your help. I really appreciate how clean and sane Devuan is — this distro just makes sense.

golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

Welcome to paradise erm Devuan! AFAIK, no one in this camp has experimented with XLibre. Perhaps you would like to lead the testing and adaptation of XLibre for Devuan?

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sagemage

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Registered: 2025-05-21

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

I would be inclined to wait until a bleeding edge distro like Artix Linux has it in their somewhat stable galaxy (main) repo, its still in testing there.
https://packages.artixlinux.org/package … e-xserver/

You could give it a try though, im sure if you joined xlibre mailing list,telegram,matrix chat they might be able to help you out.
https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver
https://www.freelists.org/list/xlibre
https://t.me/x11dev
https://matrix.to/#/#xlibre:matrix.org

LibertySysadmin

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

@golinux — Haha, paradise indeed! I might just take you up on that challenge. I’ll start poking around and see how far I can get with XLibre on Daedalus. If I make progress, I’ll report back here and possibly write up a guide for others down the line.

LibertySysadmin

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

@sagemage — Appreciate the links! I agree, letting it bake a little longer in the Artix galaxy repo might be the cautious route. But I’m also curious enough to explore, especially since I’m running this on non-critical hardware. I’ll check out the GitHub and join the Matrix or Telegram chats as I dig in.

Thanks again to both of you — great to see such a helpful community!

brocashelm

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Registered: 2020-06-29

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

@LibertySysadmin:

If you use IRC, there's also an #xlibre channel at irc.libera.chat.