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# Looking to try out a new operating system?
try
# **DistroHopper**
Quickly download, create and run VM of any#TODO operating system.
Linux required...
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Click on Hop for latest download
[](https://sourceforge.net/projects/distrohopper/files/latest/download)
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Licensed under AGPL3
# Still Beta version!
Click for screenshot
As a base excellent [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) (Link to project page)
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTYWEgw0hI)
You can download new distro with **few clicks** of a mouse
# Features
- GUI using yad (on youtube)
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrFQECcwLRA)
- TUI using fzf (on youtube)
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5hqYEskOw)
- Desktop(shortcuts) entries generator
- 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)
Developed in English and translated into Czech language.
## Welcome translations!
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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...
## Requirements (For running VMs)
- [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/) (*6.0.0 or newer*) **with GTK, SDL, SPICE & VirtFS support**
- [bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) (*4.0 or newer*)
- [Coreutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/)
- [EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2)
- [grep](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/)
- [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
- [LSB](https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/start)
- [procps](https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps)
- [python3](https://www.python.org/)
- [macrecovery](https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Utilities/macrecovery)
- [mkisofs](http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/cdrecord.html)
- [usbutils](https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils)
- [util-linux](https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux)
- [sed](https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/)
- [socat](http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/)
- [spicy](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk)
- [swtpm](https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm)
- [Wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/)
- [xdg-user-dirs](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/)
- [xrandr](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xrandr)
- [zsync](http://zsync.moria.org.uk/)
- [unzip](http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html)
### Installing Requirements
For Ubuntu, Arch and nixos systems the
[ppa](https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/ubuntu/quickemu),
[AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quickemu) or
[nix](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/quickemu)
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
For adding new distros, or adding/improving translations you will need also meld.
# How to install DistroHopper?
You need get copy of distrohopper
If you want more stable experience, download latest release from
#### [GitHub](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper/releases) or SourceForge [](https://sourceforge.net/projects/distrohopper/files/latest/download)
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If you want latest developer version... (could have bugs and break anytime)
Or you want translate DistroHopper
`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...
I am usually run DistroHopper as:
`./dh m r s l && ./dh i && dh g`
(But...)
## Desktop files
All desktop files will be storred in your .config/distrohopper
in directories *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 discusion](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper/discussions/9)
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#### [discuss](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper/discussions) on github
# Join DistroHopper chat group:
[](https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-2&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FzmtsZwfTjwyynibt0bF6bb_xLWS9ce5A%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAkMtz66wGfWb6VDn-_t_mVm3RFiFfOC3Hxye8Hm5tmVo%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22o8KR0TOM0f2j33nO9goMRQ%3D%3D%22%7D) (click SimpleX logo)
(check the software! even if you don't want chat about DistroHopper)
[Simplex website](https://simplex.chat)
# Without these amazing projects it wouldn't be posible:
#### [bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/)
#### [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/)
#### [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu)
GUI depends on
#### [yad](https://github.com/v1cont/yad)
TUI depends on
#### [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)
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For
- easy of use
#### [fish](https://fishshell.com)
- commiting and working with github
#### [lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit)
#### [opencommit](https://github.com/di-sukharev/opencommit)
- Editing
#### [geany](https://geany.org/)
#### [Kate](https://apps.kde.org/kate)
- diff
#### [Meld](https://meld.app/)
- Logo and icons
#### [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org)
and
#### [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org)
#### [logo by](https://freesvg.org/by/OpenClipart) bit repaired by me..
- Updating translation
#### [Poedit](https://poeditor.com/)
Everything done on
#### [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org)
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# Mirrored on
#### [GitHub](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper)
#### [SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/distrohopper)
#### [Disroot](https://git.disroot.org/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper)
#### [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper)
#### [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/osowoso/distrohopper)
#### [SourceHut](https://git.sr.ht/~osowoso/DistroHopper)
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For Homepage click on Hop
[](https://dh.osowoso.xyz/)
# donate
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@zen0bit at github
mailto:
#### parent site [oSoWoSo](https://osowoso.xyz)