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ltuyen

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Registered: 2025-05-03

Posts: 19  

HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

Check if the ca-certificates and curl packages installed:

apt info ca-certificates curl

If it doesn't have "APT-Manual-Installed: yes" on it, you are not installed ca-certificated and curl, try install these packages first:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ca-certificates curl

Add XLibre-deb repository and keyrings

sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://xlibre-deb.github.io/key.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/xlibre-deb.asc
sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/xlibre-deb.asc

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xlibre-deb.sources
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://xlibre-deb.github.io/devuan/
Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")
Components: main
Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture)
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/xlibre-deb.asc
EOF

Update the repository and install XLibre

sudo apt update
sudo apt install xlibre

For the Devuan 5.0 (daedalus) users. you might need to install "libdrm" packages from Devuan "daedalus-backports" repository.

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-backports.sources
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
Suites: daedalus-backports
Components: main
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
EOF

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y -t daedalus-backports 'libdrm*'

Command was taken from xlibre-deb/devuan on GitHub
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unixuser

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Registered: 2024-09-13

Posts: 28  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

Hey, thanks for the tuto

What's the advantage of XLibre compared to X11 as X11 is still in development ? Are we sure that XLibre dev won't give it up ? X11 is pretty solid, it is nice to see new stuff, but I fear
Do you use it ? How is it performance wise ? Better, equal with X11 ? How is the ram usage ?

ltuyen

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Registered: 2025-05-03

Posts: 19  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

Are we sure that XLibre dev won't give it up ?

Yes. XLibre developer won't give it up and they will maintain the Xorg fork for as much long as possible

Do you use it ?

Yes, i use XLibre with i3 or some lightweight window manager as a daily driver. Works better than Wayland compositor

Better, equal with X11 ?

Better than non-XLibre Xorg

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EDX-0

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Registered: 2020-12-12

Posts: 144  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

any specific feature that makes it a "worth installing right now" over waiting for it to be added onto either debian or devuan experimental for your daily driver? cuz for testing environments and providing feedback onto the project i do consider an install now if you can spare a "testing machine"

RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

Posts: 154  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

over waiting for it to be added onto either debian

You must have missed the direction the Debian project moves to, they are fully in control of the corporate parasites and their sympathizers  working to kill all of this old tested code for the new shinny. That is fully part of the corporate control of linux agenda they have and are most likely set to kill off X and any variants as you see start to happen with the Wayland only releases starting to appear from them. There is a snowballs chance in hell of any new variant of the X server appearing in Debian.

Codalunga

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Registered: 2025-08-05

Posts: 7  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

Thanks for this.
I believe Devuan 6 implementation of X11 will still be ok for my needs, but it will be interesting to see how XLibre will step up to become the de-facto X11 - maybe in a couple of releases?

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

any specific feature that makes it a "worth installing right now" over waiting for it to be added onto either debian or devuan experimental for your daily driver?

That's a really good question, one I don't have an answer for. I need to do some research targeting what improvements if any there are over vanilla xorg right now. I don't have anything like a full understanding of this.

But going forward if the intent was to let xorg quietly die, then even if there are no distinct improvements it seems worthwhile to support this actively developed replacement, it has at least provoked a lot of conversation and interest and highlighted bigly the intent to shove Wayland down our throats.

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golinux

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Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

And LeePen has even submitted a patch for seatd!

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zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

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Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

I think I might actually consider supporting this project. I still prefer Xenocara as an idea, but whatever.

My disdain for wayland is growing...

synaptic doesn't work in devuan/gnuinos.

Last edited by zapper (2025-09-03 19:20:05)

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