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[francois]

There is a lot of questions in there. And I hail to your intelligence in terms of where porteus should be. You should condider one module at a time.

Have a look at these porteus experienced users giving advice to a linux novice about the save changes folder:
Corrupted save changes folder

Most of us look for existing modules, googling is the way to go. Python id already installed:

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guest@porteus:/root$ python -V
Python 3.6.4

Googling youtube-dl
Youtube-dl-gui
And it was for mate.

It happens that the introduction of a new module could cause problem. If your package is in the form of a module, you can remove it temporarily and ask for troubleshooting on the forum for that peculiar module with the output error.

For module construction:
http://www.porteus.org/tutorials/9-modu ... dules.html
http://www.porteus.org/tutorials/9-modu ... udies.html

[francois]

Easier methods, googling:
Appimage:
Howto: Popular AppImages one click away
Flatpak:
snap or flatpak for Porteus?

We have to resolve the package manager issue.

We had a great one on the porteus 4.0 and previous version which is called USM. Most of my modules were created with that tool. They seem to work on porteus 5.0.