Re: half-baked devuan installation - please help

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Anno domini 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 08:49:53 -0700
 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
>
> On Friday 13 October 2023 07:35:19 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
> > Anno domini 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 07:08:36 -0700
> > > > You'd need "non-free-firmware" "and "non-free" repositories and you
> > > > have to instll amd64-firmware.
> > > >
> > > > Nik
> {snip}
> >
> > Some of the glitches you observe most likely come from not having th
> > microcode patches installed. Hardware nowadays is not what it used to be :)
> > You'd need for your ideapad:
> >
> > amd64-microcode
> > firmware-amd-graphics
> > firmware-iwlwifi (most likely)
> >
> Okay, so I just did an upgrade of my daedalus system. Then I enabled non-free
> and contrib in my sources.list, and tried installing these packages, both as
> is and with * appended (in order to catch any packages that might replace
> these), but I keep getting pretty much this same error message:

Add "non-free-firmware" in the line after "non-free", e.g.:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Nik
>
> ######
> Package firmware-amd-graphics is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
>
> E: Unable to locate package amd64-microcode
> E: Package 'firmware-amd-graphics' has no installation candidate
> E: Unable to locate package firmware-iwlwifi
> ######
>
> I also tried just to upgrade with non-free and contrib enabled, and the only
> package offered for upgrade is fonts-ubuntu.
>
> Can't say yet whether my system runs any better now, or at least more
> glitch-free, after this upgrade. That will probably have to wait for at least
> another reboot.
>
> I am about to search firmware in general, just to see if anything similar get
> caught up in my trawling blindly for likely packages. I know that they all
> look rather familiar, but they seem to have been made unavailable to me,
> specifically, and I take it very personally.
>
> ;-)
>
> Thanks for your patience. This is strange new adventure in system upgrade.
>
> Bill
>
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