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How to install Flameshot in Modicia Linux [with screenshot]

Flameshot is very powerful screenshot manager for Linux. Installation in Modicia Linux is very fast and simple:

$ sudo apt-get install flameshot

output:

$ sudo apt-get install flameshot

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  flameshot
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 101 not upgraded.
Need to get 217 kB of archives.
After this operation, 823 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 flameshot amd64 0.5.1-2 [217 kB]
Fetched 217 kB in 2s (125 kB/s)    
Selecting previously unselected package flameshot.
(Reading database ... 257035 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../flameshot_0.5.1-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking flameshot (0.5.1-2) ...
Setting up flameshot (0.5.1-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3+18.04.20180207.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

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Written by Administrator on Thursday April 23, 2020

How to install Flameshot in Devuan Linux [with screenshots]

Flameshot screenshot manager is not included in standard Devuan repositories, so we need to add Stretch-Backports repository (from Debian) in order to install it on your Devuan Linux system.

Adding Stretch-Backports repository

Open file /etc/apt/sources.list .

$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

In my case:

sources.list file in Devuan

and add this line:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

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Written by Administrator on Thursday April 23, 2020

Devuan apt-get installer asking to insert installation disc - Solution [with screenshots]

You've fresh installation of Devuan and trying to install package, but system is asking for installation media?

Media change: please insert the disc labeled
 'Devuan GNU/Linux 2.1 (ascii) amd64 DVD1 - 2019-12-21 07:24:54 UTC'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press [Enter]

If you continue to click buttons in terminal, system will start downloading packages from repositories, because in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, where all installation media (and their priorities) internet repositories are present as well.

But in case you want Devuan to not ask you for installation media every time, you can edit sources file this way:

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 22, 2020