My Blog Post About Devuan

Robin · 2026-05-05 20:03:10

Here is a blog post I wrote about Devuan and some of the "lessons learned" from my experience so far.

Be kind though, I'm a newbie.

-Robin

abower · 2026-05-05 21:26:46

Thoughtful reflections; thank you for sharing!

PedroReina · Yesterday 07:55:03

Robin wrote:

I'm a newbie.

You're not! But good try. Welcome to the forum, mate.

Last edited by PedroReina (Today 07:58:20)

fsmithred · Yesterday 12:03:01

Ditto what Pedro said.

Nice blog post. Thanks! I read your other one about Devuan and in it you state that the Refracta uses xlibre. In fact, Refracta uses xorg in the official releases, but you must have picked my test build with xlibre that's in the experimental directory.

That iso was made to test support for seatd in xlibre. There's no elogind in that build, but it'll get pulled in if you install the right things. If you're missing some functions even with elogind, make sure you also have libpam-elogind.

Oh, one more thing about that iso - it's devuan freia, which is still in the testing phase. Don't be surprised if you get 100 package upgrades per day along with occasional breakage. That's one way to learn.

Have fun, and Happy Hacking!

Robin · Yesterday 13:21:15

Freia, huh? That would be interesting! But in fact, there have been no updates since I installed it about 4 days ago. Perhaps I was wrong about the Xlibre reference in my blog post.

Okay, just checked Fastfetch: It's Excalibur, after all. I should edit my blog post next.

But since it hasn't updated, I suppose I should ask: How often should I expect updates in Excalibur?

Thanks very much!

RedGreen925 · Yesterday 17:59:59

But since it hasn't updated, I suppose I should ask: How often should I expect updates in Excalibur?

With all Debian based stable releases few and far between mostly only security updates like the kernel that got updated a few days and now it is showing me libc6 and its related package are to be done. Some of these will only be shown if you have enabled the proposed-updates.

Edit:

root@9600k:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources 
## Devuan 6 excalibur
## The new style method of using repositories to install software.
## This /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources is new style and location file
## The /etc/apt/old.style.sources.list contains the same as this.
## https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntus-repository-configuration-ubuntu-sources-have-moved-to-etc-apt-sources-list-d-ubuntu-sources

## Normal excalibur sources
Types: deb
URIs: http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged 
Suites: excalibur excalibur-backports excalibur-proposed-updates  excalibur-updates
Components: main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
Architectures: amd64

## excalibur security sources
Types: deb
URIs: http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged
Suites: excalibur-security
Components: main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/devuan-archive-keyring.gpg
Architectures: amd64

Using that for your .sources file will get everything, if you want source packages to install from add deb-src to the Types line.

Last edited by RedGreen925 (Yesterday 18:01:39)

Robin · Yesterday 19:42:08

I'm content to leave things as they are as long as there's no harm in doing so; whatever the defaults are that it "shipped" with.

Thanks!

greenjeans · Yesterday 20:30:45

Very nice! Welcome to Devuan and the forum!

The officially official Devuan Forum!

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