Looking to try out a new operating system?

try

DistroHopper

Quickly download, create and run VM of any#TODO operating system.

Licensed under AGPL3

Still Testing version!

quickly create and run VMs

As a base excellent quickemu

you can download new distro with few clicks of a mouse

GUI using yad

See it in action on youtube...

or command line?...

TUI using fzf

.Desktop file generator

It will simple generate .desktop files for every supported and downloaded VM in quickemu. So you can link it anywhere...

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Why am I doing it?

Because I wanna learn

• Linux

• Bash

• yad

• project management

And contribute to open source

play with Quickemu

And easily add new distros to it

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How to run DistroHopper?

You need fullfill the requirement first...

Quickemu.

Requirements (For running VMs)

• QEMU (6.0.0 or newer) with GTK, SDL, SPICE & VirtFS support
• bash (4.0 or newer)
• Coreutils
• EDK II
• grep
• jq
• LSB
• procps
• python3
• macrecovery
• mkisofs
• usbutils
• util-linux
• sed
• socat
• spicy
• swtpm
• Wget
• xdg-user-dirs
• xrandr
• zsync
• unzip

Installing Requirements

For Ubuntu, Arch and nixos systems the ppa, AUR or nix packaging will take care of the dependencies. For other host distributions or operating systems it will be necessary to install the above requirements or their equivalents.

These examples may save a little typing

Debian:

sudo apt install qemu bash coreutils ovmf grep jq lsb procps python3 genisoimage usbutils util-linux sed spice-client-gtk swtpm wget xdg-user-dirs zsync unzip

Fedora:

sudo dnf install qemu bash coreutils edk2-tools grep jq lsb procps python3 genisoimage usbutils util-linux sed spice-gtk-tools swtpm wget xdg-user-dirs xrandr unzip

Void Linux:

sudo xbps-install qemu bash coreutils grep jq procps-ng python3 util-linux sed spice-gtk swtpm usbutils wget xdg-user-dirs xrandr unzip zsync socat

For DistroHopper to work you need

wget yad fzf quickemu is included

How to install DistroHopper?

You need get copy of distrohopper

If you want more stable experience, download latest release from

GitHub

or

From SourceForge

If you want latest developer version... (could have bugs)

git clone https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper

Enter created/unpacked distrohopper directory

Then enter config directory

cd distrohopper/config

And run

./1stRun.sh

Now should be good to go...

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How to run DistroHopper

Just run from terminal

dh

or for TUI version (Download and run from/into same directory)

dh -t

Desktop files

All desktop files will be storred in your .config in directories /distrohopper/ready and supported

Fell free to link them anywhere you want...

Currently supported Distribution:

In screenshot above...

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Github discussion:

discuss

Project chat group:

If anyone wanna join, here is one way

(check the software! even if you don't want chat about DistroHopper) Simplex website

Without these amazing projects it wouldn't be posible:

bash

QEMU

quickemu

GUI depends on

yad

TUI depends on

fzf

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For

• easy of use

fish

• commiting and working with github

lazygit

• Editing

geany

Kate

• diff

Meld

• Logo and icons

GIMP

and

Inkscape

logo by bit repaired by me..

Everything done on

Void Linux

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Mirrored on

GitHub

SourceForge

Disroot

Codeberg

GitLab

SourceHut

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DistroHopper website (click mascot):

donate

@zen0bit at github

mailto: zenobit@osowoso.xyz

parent site oSoWoSo