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Error in Devuan: "... is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported" - Solution [with screenshots]

A problem of broken sudo (error: "... is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported") which you can meet in Devuan. For example:

user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

has very simple solution: you have to add user in sudo group. For now user (in my case dima) is not a member of sudo group, that's why I cannot use sudo mode to run commands:

$ su
$ root@computer:/home/dima# usermod -a -G sudo dima


Explanation:

  1. Log as a root
  2. Add user to sudo group.

Parameter -a (append) is very important! In case you forget to use this swich, user will be removed from any groups.

Parameter -G takes a list of additional groups and assign user to them.

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 22, 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

How to find your linux version in Devuan Linux? [with screenshots]

Trident linux is based on Void linux, let's check, how system identifies itself by running different commands (lsb_release, uname etc):

$ uname -a
Linux computer 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux ascii"
NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux"
ID=devuan
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.9.0-11-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u2 (2019-11-11)

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Written by Administrator on Wednesday April 22, 2020