[DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

Hi, I would like to ask whether Devuan and Waterfox are still compatible. Updates of Waterfox are not working. I tried the classic version as the new one may have more issues. The 'old' version of waterfox I am using freezes the mouse pointer on startup. The error is the following: ERRO

[DNG] more issues (RE: Beowulf Beta is here!)

-Original Message- Sent: den 9 april 2020 16:14 Hello and thanks for Beowulf. An issue: it looks like devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_beta_amd64_netinstall.iso and the base system installable from it do not contain the ifupdown package (nor other networking utilities besides busybox ip?). T

[DNG] less ;-)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 02:47:27PM +, dal wrote: > > When I manually arrange networking and try to use > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main > > then the se

Re: [DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

Hi Edward, On 4/11/20 11:50 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: Hi, I would like to ask whether Devuan and Waterfox are still compatible. Updates of Waterfox are not working. I tried the classic version as the new one may have more issues. The 'old' version of waterfox I am using freezes the mou

Re: [DNG] less ;-)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:52:48AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 02:47:27PM +, dal wrote: > > > > > When I manually arrange networking and try to use > > > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates ma

[DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

Hi, I tried to extract the contents of the current .tar.gz2 archive in /opt as suggested but failed with the following error: -ERROR- # tar xjf waterfox-current-2020.04.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 . tar: .: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors --

Re: [DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

On Saturday, 11 April at 19:40, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: Hi, I tried to extract the contents of the current .tar.gz2 archive in /opt as suggested but failed with the following error: -ERROR- # tar xjf waterfox-current-2020.04.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 . tar: .: Not found in archiv

Re: [DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

Hi Edward, On 4/11/20 5:40 PM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: Hi, I tried to extract the contents of the current .tar.gz2 archive in /opt as suggested but failed with the following error: -ERROR- # tar xjf waterfox-current-2020.04.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 . tar: .: Not found in archiv

Re: [DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

On 4/11/20 7:04 PM, aitor_czr wrote: But i wonder if libwebkitgtk-1.0 (compatible with Gtk2) will survive the passing of time and dbus. The answer is blowin' in the wind :) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bi

Re: [DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

Hello Edward, > Hi, > > I would like to ask whether Devuan and Waterfox are still compatible. > Updates of Waterfox are not working. I tried the classic version as > the new one may have more issues. > > The 'old' version of waterfox I am using freezes the mouse pointer on startup. > > The erro

Re: [DNG] more issues (RE: Beowulf Beta is here!)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 02:47:27PM +, dal wrote: > When I manually arrange networking and try to use > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main > > then the set of

Re: [DNG] more issues (RE: Beowulf Beta is here!)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 08:15:51PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 02:47:27PM +, dal wrote: > > When I manually arrange networking and try to use > > > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main > >

Re: [DNG] more issues (RE: Beowulf Beta is here!)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 08:15:51PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 02:47:27PM +, dal wrote: > > When I manually arrange networking and try to use > > > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main > > deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main > >

[DNG] Devuan-bugs Web Archives

Hi, https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devuan-bugs points to https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/list/devuan-bugs.en.html which says | No such list (devuan-bugs): | The specified mailing list is not available in this archive. Cheers ___ D

Re: [DNG] HW: Which brand and model of lapto have your successfully installed Devuan on?

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 11:56:07AM +1000, terryc wrote: > > I have a strong preference to not pay the Microsoft Tax and not waste > my money on bits for which there are no linux drivers. Obviously > running Devuan is preferable. > > Unfortunately, there appears to be no local vendor of Linux only

[DNG] Laptop installation

On 09/04/20 03:56, terryc wrote: This is a hardware question. Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed devuan onto? How difficult was it? -- A Lenovo T400 and T420. For both, I removed the optical drive and replaced it with a 500 GiB fixed disk using the factory

Re: [DNG] Current state of VPN software ?

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 21:14:05 +0100 Simon Hobson wrote: > It's been a while since I last did anything with VPNs on Linux, and I > recall there being 3 options, some of which were "less well > supported" than others. I'm looking to setup a site-site tunnel so I > can remotely access stuff at mum's (

[DNG] Waterfox issues under Devuan ASCII

Hi, I will upgrade to Beowulf. As usual, I will upgrade dpkg, apt, aptitude and the kernel first and then reboot with the new versions. Then, I will do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". If there are more critical packages which need to be upgraded first, please post. The above worked in Debian when ther