Questions tagged [devuan]
A Debian derivative without systemd.
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How do I shut down fwupd when it's not a service?
I'm running Devuan Excalibur (like Debian Trixie, but without systemd).
I notice that fwupd is running; and I know that on some other systems, fwupd is actually service, which can be taken down using ...
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How can I tell whether Cinnamon is using software rendering? [duplicate]
I'm running Cinnamon on Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur. For the past several days - possibly after an apt-get dist-upgrade, my desktop has been very sluggish, and Cinnamon has been taking up a lot of the ...
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How to configure grub to boot from encrypted lvm partition
I try to install Grub manually after Devuan installation, but I guess there is an error in configuration.
/etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”cryptdevice=/dev/sda5:devuan-root:allow-discard”
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Running docker in an unprivileged devuan lxc container (on proxmox)
I am configuring a single-node proxmox server for use as a home server/homelab. I am looking to run many of my generic applications (like immich, jellyfin, etc) in docker containers, which could all ...
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How can I re-read the apt-listchanges content from my last apt command?
I just ran apt-get upgrade on my system, and as part of the installation (which includes many hundreds of packages), apt-listchanges brought up some text document. Unfortunately, I dismissed it before ...
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How can I alter apt-add-repository to support other Debian-based distributions?
I'm using a Debian-based OS distribution (Devuan, to be specific). I'm trying to use the apt-add-repository Python-based program, which is part of the software-properties-common package.
Unfortunately,...
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How do I disable/swapout light locker on Devuan XFCE
Got a ~10 year old laptop that sometimes has problems with monitor coming back from sleep requiring battery to be pulled to fix. Forums mentioned Lightdm and lightlocker possibly being issues.
I ...
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"_split_longopt: command not found" when trying tab-completion
For the past couple of weeks or so, I've noticed that, often, when I press the Tab key to try and complete a command in a bash shell in a terminal, I get an error message. It says:
bash: ...
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Setting modifier using xmodmap
I am using GNU/Linux (Devuan) with the mate desktop and with i3wm.
I would like to assign mod1 to Meta_L. If I show the current assignment with
$ xmodmap
I get
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Meta_L (0xcd)...
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What do I do about "No video with supported format and MIME type found"?
I run Devuan GNU/Linux Excalibur (i.e. Debian trixie without systemd), with Firefox v123.
Recently, I've been getting errors trying to browse content involving videos (yes, from the accursed social ...
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How to get a daily report of the exit codes of cron jobs
I have a few dozen cron jobs, which run every day, for backups.
I don't want to receive an email for only failed jobs, as I won't know when the email fails.
I don't want to receive an email for every ...
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Problem upgrading after trying to install wireguard in Devuan Chinera
Trying to install wireguard / wireguard-tools on a Raspberry Pi3b running Devuan Chimaera.
Get blocked in generating the system images --- see below:
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-rt-...
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unable to connect to internet via router
I'm on Dell Latitude 3420, Devuan Daedalus GNU/Linux (based on Debian Bookworm, without systemd),
I connect to internet via mobile hotspot (using Android Phone's mobile data) at home and through a ...
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How can I build an older GCC version (8.5.0) on a newer Linux distribution (Devuan Excalibur/Debian Trixie)?
If I download and try to build GCC 8.x on a newer machine, e.g. Devuan Excalibur GNU/Linux (i.e. Debian Trixie without systemd) - this fails, with the error going something like this:
libstdc++.so.6: ...
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How do I determine the apt package name for a given PyPI package?
Suppose I want to install a Python package system-wide on a Debian/Devuan system. Some PyPI packages have DEB packages available via the repository's apt sources, with package names prefixed by ...
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