Developed in English and translated into Czech language. Translations welcomed!

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 Beta version!

quickly create and run VMs

As a base excellent quickemu

you can download new distro with few clicks of a mouse

Features

• GUI using yad (old video)

See it in action on youtube...

or command line?...

• TUI using fzf (old video)

• Desktop(shortcuts) file generator It will simple generate .desktop files for every supported and downloaded VM in quickemu. So you can copy it anywhere...

• Set dir where VMs will be stored

• Install DistroHopper systemwide

• Portable mode (dependecies still must be installed)

• Add new operating system to quickget (bit easier)

• Copy all downloaded ISOs to destination directory

• Translate DistroHopper (Currently supported English and Czech language)

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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.

If you install DistroHopper, it should take care of dependencies on Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, openSuse and Fedora

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 and break anytime)

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

Enter created/unpacked distrohopper directory

Now you should be good to go...

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How to run DistroHopper

Just run from terminal

dh

And you will see what next...

Desktop files

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

Fell free to copy them anywhere you want...

Currently supported Operating Systems and tools:

`agarimos

alma

alpine

android

archlinux

archcraft

arcolinux

batocera

blendos

cachyos

centos-stream

cereus

debian

deepin

devuan

dietpi

dragonflybsd

elementary

endeavouros

endless

fedora

freebsd

freedos

fvoid

gabeeos

garuda

gentoo

ghostbsd

haiku

kali

kdeneon

kolibrios

kubuntu

linuxmint

lmde

mageia

manjaro

miyo

mxlinux

netboot

netbsd

nixos

lubuntu

macos

openbsd

opensuse

oraclelinux

popos

reactos

rebornos

rockylinux

siduction

slackware

slitaz

solus

steamos

tails

truenas-core

truenas-scale

ubuntu

ubuntu-budgie

ubuntukylin

ubuntu-mate

ubuntustudio

ubuntu-unity

ventoy

void

voidpup

vxlinux

windows

xerolinux

xubuntu

zorin`

Also with posible planned: in duscusion

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Github discussion:

discuss

Project chat group:

If anyone wanna join, here is one way (click SimpleX logo)

(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