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• Xfce
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• Easily remasterable

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2015-05-11 - Refracta 8.0 (Devuan Jessie) ∞

notes ∞

The root password is root. The user password is user.

When running from live media, you can use sudo <command> for root permissions or use 'sudo -i' to get a root terminal.

To disable openssh-server: Run sysv-rc-conf and un-check all boxes for ssh. To remove openssh-server: apt-get remove openssh-server or aptitude remove openssh-server

If you need to configure xorg.conf from the console, run /usr/local/bin/display-savior

You can convert YouTube or other video files to avi, mkv, mp4, and OggTheora video files, or to mp3 or flac audio files using youtube2what from the command line, or from the file manager, you can right-click on the video file and select 'youtube2what'. An alternate method to convert audio or video files is to us WinFF (in the Multimedia menu).

mpv for playing videos. There is no menu entry for it.

See Refracta/package_list for the installed packages.

Allowing libsystemd0 ∞

rm /etc/apt/preferences.d/00nosystemd
apt-get update

//APT::Install-Recommends 0;
//APT::Install-Suggests 0;

contrib and non-free repositories ∞

Enabling the contrib and non-free repositories by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and adding:

deb https://web.archive.org/web/20200615034358/http://packages.roundr.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main contrib non-free

debian multimedia repository ∞

Enabling the debian multimedia repository by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and adding:

deb https://www.deb-multimedia.org/ jessie main non-free

.. and then run:

\apt-get  install debian-multimedia-keyring
\apt-get  update

After you install what you want, comment out the deb line and run update again. This will prevent getting unwanted packages from deb-multimedia upon upgrade.

backports ∞

Newer versions of the Linux kernel and other software are available in the backports repository. Uncomment the deb line in /etc/apt/sources.list

# Devuan Backports
deb https://web.archive.org/web/20200615034358/http://packages.roundr.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports main

.. and then run:

apt-get  update
apt-get -t jessie-backports install <package1> <package2>...

After you get what you want, comment out the deb line and run update again.

Make your own live-USB ∞

refracta2usb(Preferred method)

This script will create a bootable usb device and puts the filesystem from your live-CD image into a pre-formatted fat32 partition. You can create a second partition, formatted as ext2 on the stick. The second partition can be used to store files. It can be used in the standard debian-live manner of persistence, or with the use of some custom scripts in Refracta, it can be used as an encrypted /home directory.

(see /usr/share/doc/refracta2usb/readme.refracta2usb.txt)

Mount/unmount encrypted partition ∞

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdX label
mount /dev/mapper/label <mountpoint>

umount <mountpoint>
cryptsetup luksClose /dev/mapper/label

Mount/unmount encrypted lvm ∞

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdxY label # then run lvdisplay to get the vg name and lv name
sudo vgchange -a y <volume_group_name> 
mount /dev/mapper/<vg_name-lv_name> <mountpoint> 

umount <mountpoint>
sudo vgchange -a n <volume_group_name>
sudo cryptsetup luksClose label

Create an encrypted partition ∞

cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdxY
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdxY label
mke2fs -j /dev/mapper/label
# or:
# mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/mapper/label

Mount NTFS partition ∞

mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw,umask=000 /dev/sdxY <mountpoint>

Last updated 2021-07-17 at 15:49:54