Concerning Debian and ArchLinux

[Joel Roth]

Peter Billam wrote:
> Greetings again, 
>  
> About http://devuan.kalos.mine.nu I'd suggest it needs also: 
>   edbrowse, lynx, cclive, slrn, lprng 
> and for my own purposes also some musical things: 
>   fluidsynth, libfluidsynth-dev, ecasound, libasound-dev 
> I couldn't find them on the package list. 

After installing the OS, you can add those packages with apt-get. 
  
> Is it possible to install generic debian packages, 
> or will they all fail because there's no gnome or pulse ? 

Devuan has virtually all of Debian packages ported, and
you are better off installing from the Devuan repository.

Cheers,

Joel
  
> Peter Billam 

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Joel Roth