I am trying to install incus on Devuan Excalibur (based on Trixie Debian 13) however the apt install incus installation fails as neither incus-base or incus-client packages can be found to download, although 318 other dependencies were downloaded.
Any suggestions (other than building from source!) how to workaround?
Hmm, a quick glance indicates Devuan excalibur has merged the latest Incus packaging from Debian unstable. I don’t run any Devuan systems, but the output of apt install would be useful to see how/why it’s failing.
Use the packages from the Zabbly repo?
Ah yes, I found them here GitHub - zabbly/incus: Incus package repository
I will try the Zabbly Debian 13 package to see if that solves the problem.
Many thanks for the tip.
I doubt they will work, since Devuan doesn’t support systemd; the Zabbly packages only have systemd services, IIRC.
Hmm … yes that might be a problem unless there is an easy way to convert Systemd configs into configs for SysVinit that I am running.
Will see how it goes.
I wondered about that; I don’t know if Devuan has anything in the way of shims to make things to work with systemd configs.
If not, I guess you could take the Zabbly packages, and copy in the init scripts from the Devuan packages; you might be able to cobble something together. I don’t think building from source would help - you’ll still have the same problem with init scripts.
Otherwise, your problems are probably best dealt with upstream with Devuan - or use a more conventional base distro (in a VM if necessary).
An update.
After editing the Zabbly stable repository to ‘Suites: trixie’ I was able to install incus on Devuan Excalibur, however it threw the warning during installation that “systemd wasn’t found on this system” and “As a result, the incus units have not been enabled”
In checking on another system that is running Ubuntu it became clear that Incus uses a potpourri of systemd services that cannot all easily be identified and re-created in SysVinit format.
So I will follow up with the Devuan team to see what can be done to fix the problem from the Devuan side.
Hello - Is there any update on this? IS Incus going to be in the devuan excalibur repost at some point in the near future? We have it 6.0.5-lts working on excalibur, but the web UI (incus-ui-canonical) just gives json output no matter what I do. We created an init script for stopping and starting it - what are init scripts are needed to get the nice Admin GUI working? Would a later version, for example 6.1.8 help? We find no incus or incus-ui-canonical in excalibur - so we are taking it from trixie repos. Is there a special link for incus and the incus-ui-canonical native to excalibur somewhere? Please provide link if so. Thanks for any help. Ed