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Gnome |
Unity |
KDE |
LXDE |
XFCE |
Enligtenment/terminology |
Moshka |
Cinnamon |
Budgie |
Mate |
Deepin |
LXQt |
Xterm *** |
| Ubuntu |
Y |
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O |
| OpenSUSE |
Y |
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O |
| PCLinuxOS |
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O |
| CentOS |
Y |
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O |
| Fedora |
Y |
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Y |
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O |
| Manjaro |
Y |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
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O |
| Mint |
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O |
| Zorin |
Y |
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O |
| Debian |
Y |
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O |
| Bodhi |
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Y |
Y |
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O |
| MintDE |
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Y |
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O |
| Debian |
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Y |
Y* |
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Y |
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O |
| Mythbuntu |
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Y |
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O |
| Deepin |
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| This chart indicates whether the HDS installer for that
Desktop has been tested on that OS and is known to work. Installation may be
straight forward, |
| or that specific combination of Desktop and OS may need
special installation procedures. If so, they are included in the Installation
Guide. If your |
| specific combination of OS and desktop has not been tested,
it doesn't mean it won't work. If
there is no Y under your combo of OS and Desktop, that |
| means it has not been tested. Read read at least one of the Installation
Guides for your OS, then try the installer for your Desktop (be sure you use
the |
| correct x32 or x64 version) and see what happens. If it
doesn't work, let me know and I will troubleshoot it here on a VM with your
combination and |
| create an Installation Guide for it. I can tell you right now any OS that
doesn't support sudo, such as Debian or PCLinuxOS, will probably need an su |
| version of the HDS installer. Before you attempt to install to these OS,
check for the sudoers file (generally in the /etc/ directory). If you have
one, |
| you will not need the su version of the installer. If not,
plan on using the su version. Some versions of Debian do support sudo, but
they make adding |
| someone to the sudoers file difficult. Telling you how to
do that is beyond the scope of my Installation Guides, so you are on your own
with that. But |
| if I could figure it out, anyone can. Look for a tutorial
on the Distro's website or elsewhere online, like in support forums. It
involves editing a system |
| file, so they
intentionally make it hard for you to do, for security and safety's sake. |
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and one for 64 OS. Plus 4 for use with the Xterm emulator, one su version for
32 bit and one |
| for 64 bit, plus one regular (sudo) version for 32 bit and
one for 64 bit. That makes a total of
32 installers. Aside from the 32 vs 64 bit and su vs sudo |
| aspects, differences in OS will affect how you handle the
installation, but not which installer you use, You use the installer for your
Desktop (or |
| terminal
emulator). The Desktop determines which emulator to call and how, and that is
the main difference in the installers. |
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Xterm-su installers. The Xterm-su installer uses the Xterm emulator and is
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| *** Xterm installer is an optional installer for most OS.
It will usually work with any sudo enabled OS/Desktop, though you may have to
install the |
| Xterm emulator first. It's preferred that you use the
installer for your Desktop. As a fallback, the Xterm installer should work if
needed or if your |
| Desktop isn't listed. There are no Installation Guides for
Xterm per se, but some of the desktop installers actually use Xterm. While
they use the same |
| installer, the
installation process may differ. It is impossible to know what your specific
installation process will be. If you run into problems, first |
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read over the various Installation Guides to
see if your problem is addressed in one of them.
If that doesn't help, contact me. |
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| I've tried hard
to ensure the HDS installers work with all possible combinations. But this
list, which is far from a full listing of all OS and all |
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| Desktops, consists of 169 possible combinations. So it is
nearly impossible, and certainly time prohibitive, to test all the possible
combinations. If you |
| run into trouble, I will be happy to help sort things out.
If you elect to use an Xterm installer rather than the one listed for your
Desktop, be sure to |
| read the Installation Guide for your OS/Desktop installer
if there is one. It may outline special steps needed for your OS, that may
apply no matter |
| what Desktop or terminal emulator you are using.
If there is no Guide for your Desktop/OS
look at the other Guides for your OS, they may help outline |
| special steps
you can try if things don't seem to be working. If you have any questions at
all, feel free to contact me. |
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