My Devuan installation notes.

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Using Devuan Chimaera DVD ISO (dd onto USB) → UEFI boot!

Note: If using netinstall or CD1 some firmware may not be available - which is a problem if using WiFi module.

The must-haves for MY Devuan installation:

• install build-essential (development tools)
• install linux-headers-amd64 (to compile kernel modules)
• install geany, git, gitk (coding stuffs)
• install libnss-mdns & avahi-daemon (system management) INSTALLED BY DEFAULT
• install curl (some of my scripts needs that…)

The stuffs I currently need:

• install cryptsetup (encrypted partitions)
• install xfig (i need xfig2dev)

Note: these are required to compile Linux kernel: libncurses5-dev build-essential libssl-dev libelf-dev git bison flex (need to check if these are already installed by the above selection, e.g. build-essential and git are covered)

work in progress…?

• using default xfce desktop
  • this is my primary choice, but I have installed cinnamon on other machines
• replace wicd with network-manager
  • # apt install network-manager network-manager-gnome
  • network-manager-gnome provides nm-applet (not needed if using nmcli)
  • # apt purge wicd wicd-gtk
  • # apt autoremove

I want a basic installation with dwm.

• install base (use netinstall iso… or, maybe use debootstrap?)
• install my usual stuffs

  # apt install build-essential linux-headers-amd64 vim git curl

• install xorg stuffs

  # apt install xorg libx11-dev libxft-dev libxinerama-dev

• install suckless stuffs

  # apt install stterm suckless-tools

• install dwm from source
  • use my1ubuild script
• looks good, but i need acpi stuffs

  # apt install acpid

  • for laptop, maybe add acpi-support
  • if need command-line utility, add acpi

work in progress…