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Hi all,
I'm new here thought I would make my first post of potential interest to some!
Bunsenlabs is brilliant and breathed some new life into my old Macbook Air but I usually use Devuan for, um, personal preference reasons.
Anyway I had a go at putting Bunsen on top of Devuan and it appears to have worked nicely, so I suppose you could add it to an existing Devuan install if you want. I've not run into any show stoppers yet but thought to post my notes here and if anyone else feels inclined to try it I'm happy to assist with any weirdness.
This is using Devuan Daedalus and Bunsenlabs Boron. Let's go.
This isn't a howto for installation, it's the same as Debian so I'll skip that other than these points:
(Optional but easier) At the tasksel screen, drop to another console with ctrl-alt-f2, then type
chroot /target /bin/bash
apt install --no-install-recommends network-manager
exit
It might look a mess as the system hasn't configured itself yet but it will resolve later and should just bring your wifi up on rebooting if you use it.
Return to installer console with ctrl-alt-f1
At tasksel choose 'standard system utilities' only
Choose your preferred init system
Reboot as normal into Devuan
Get a network connection going- if you were using wifi previously and added network manager it should be up anyway so happy days
Add non-free and non-free-firmware to the devuan sources file (/etc/apt/sources.list), e.g.
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main non-free non-free-firmware
wget https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian/pool/main/b/bunsen-keyring/bunsen-keyring_2023.01.14-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i bunsen-keyring_2023.01.14-1_all.deb
echo "deb https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian boron main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list
sudo apt update
wget -O boron_list https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0jq26o8f904bzkkdkmvue/boron_dpkg_list?rlkey=jds11wy1i8aeeqej1l90d2jr6&st=9fg7zxn3&dl=0
sudo apt install $(cat boron_list)
Mine had a complaint but just resume with
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reboot, should be done. Any themes in Bunsenlabs which are missing components should prompt and download necessary bits anyway.
I took these packages out of the list from a Bunsenlabs install, they looked like they were going to cause bother and I don't need them personally so they are posted just in case you need to put any back somehow
b43-fwcutter
dbus-user-session
firmware-b43-installer
firmware-b43legacy-installer
glx-alternative-mesa
glx-alternative-nvidia
glx-diversions
live-config-systemd
nvidia-installer-cleanup
nvidia-kernel-common
nvidia-modprobe
update-glx
LMK if I missed anything vital, all the best, good luck!
Last edited by wroob (2025-06-13 09:33:42)
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^ @wroob thanks for sharing this.
Can you please provide a download link for the devuan daedalus [net?]install iso ; would like to check out this devuan/bunsenlabs combo ...
Last edited by ceeslans (2025-06-12 20:00:22)
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Sure thing, here's the main page so you can choose a location nearest to you--
https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan
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I'm interested in trying this for Carbon, and switching to Devuan now due to a very recent change in, potentially, the same personal preferences
Just to clarify, what source did you use for the boron_list?
Is it the control file from the bunsen-meta-all repo, one of the pkgs-norecs files from the Bunsen net-install repo, or something else?
Have you also tried this with xlibre instead of x11?
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^^ I also am interested, I love me some BL, but I also have some personal preferences. Would love to run Boron this way, thanks for the write-up OP!
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