Hi all,

Please give Leroy Tennison lots of help. Formerly on Ubuntu, he
decided he didn't like Ubuntu anymore. On another mailing list, he went
through a big distro shootoff and decided to give Devuan a try. For
unknown reasons, Leroy's Ethernet is very slow, like 2002 slow, like
20 hours to download 4G, so he had to make a huge effort just to
download Devuan, and still he marches on. I can't be of much direct
help because I've never used Brave in my life, though if Leroy succeeds
I'll follow in his footsteps with my wife's computer and Brave.

It looks to me like Devuan is the perfect fit for Leroy and vice versa.
He doesn't want the cumbersome training wheels of Ubuntu, but he
doesn't want that "you're on your own" feeling of Void, Gentoo or
Slackware. He doesn't want to have to learn a whole lot more about
computers, software, and operating systems. I get the feeling that
he's knowledgeable about these things, but is tired of the software
progress treadmill. Leroy prefers package manager type installation and
updating to LXC/LXD, Flatpak, Appimage, Docker etc. I think Leroy has
enough past experience to deal with sysvinit. Also, Leroy dislikes
systemd, although his dislike of it falls well short of mine.

I also was enthusiastic about his decision to try Devuan because Devuan
has a great, cooperative and smart community and mailing list.

Besides telling you this about Leroy, I have a question. As a TEMPORARY
measure just to give Leroy time to solve the apt Brave difficulties
he's having, is there a Brave Flatpak or Appimage that he can start
with today while he's getting the apt/Brave thing straightened out?

Leroy, I have a feeling somebody will suggest you boot from a thumb
drive instead of an optical drive. If you decide to try booting from a
thumb drive, there's a guy named fsmithred on the Devuan mailing list
who knows everything you could ever want to know about making bootable
thumb drives, and he also knows enough about Devuan that he created and
maintains a Devuan offshoot distro.

Thanks,

SteveT




Leroy Tennison via Dng said on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:30:12 +0000 (UTC)

>This started out trying to install the Brave web browser (which has a
>shell script for installation) but ended up being an apt-get update
>issue.  When run it I get:
>
>Ign:1 cdrom://[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.1.1 excalibur amd64 - desktop
>20260425] excalibur InRelease Err:2 cdrom://[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.1.1
>excalibur amd64 - desktop 20260425] excalibur Release Please use
>apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot
>be used to add new CD-ROMsHit:3
>https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease Get:4
>https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie
>InRelease [29.1 kB] Get:5
>https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie/main
>amd64 Packages [5,230 B] Hit:6 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur
>InRelease Get:7 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security
>InRelease [37.9 kB] Hit:8 http://deb.devuan.org/merged
>excalibur-updates InRelease Reading package lists... DoneE: The
>repository 'cdrom://[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.1.1 excalibur amd64 - desktop
>20260425] excalibur Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating
>from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore
>disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository
>creation and user configuration details.
>
>
>I have run:
>
>apt-cdrom add
>
>and
>
> apt-cdrom -a -d /media/cdrom0 add    (the /etc/fstab entry for
> /media/cdrom0 is: /dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660
> user,noauto     0       0)
>
>as requested above and the "cdrom" was added to sources.list (shown
>below) but apt-get update still returns the same messages
>
>deb cdrom:[Devuan GNU/Linux 6.1.1 excalibur amd64 - desktop 20260425]/
>excalibur contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
>
>deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main contrib non-free
>non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur main
>contrib non-free non-free-firmware
>
>deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-security main contrib
>non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged
>excalibur-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
>
># excalibur-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
># see
>https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
>deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-updates main contrib
>non-free non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged
>excalibur-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
>
>
>Mounting and looking at the mounted DVD (/dev/sr0) and comparing it to
>a Debian 12 and Kali (which uses Debian) iso, all three have a Release
>file under /dists/<distribution name> so I don't know what is wrong.
>The only unique thing about this install is that it is a VM under KVM.
> I hope that's not the issue. What do I do now?  I don't want to
> disable the check because I see that the ability to do so will be
> removed in the future. Thanks for any and all help, I appreciate it.