Debian installer
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 Debian installer with the graphical GTK + interface |
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| developer | Debian Installer Team |
| Current version | 8.2 "Jessie" (September 5, 2015) |
| operating system | Debian |
| programming language | C. |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
| debian.org/devel/debian-installer | |
Debian Installer is the installation program of the Linux distribution Debian . It guides you through the installation of the system step by step. Debian Installer can also be adapted to install other distributions, so it is one of Ubuntu's two official installers .
technology
The installer is modular and expandable. For the interaction with the user he has both an ncurses -based character-oriented user interface (TUI) and a graphical user interface based on GTK + - DirectFB . He uses cdebconf , a re-implementation of debconf in C , to configure the new system during installation.
Under the name win32-loader there is a migration assistant from Microsoft Windows , which takes over various settings from Windows for the Debian installation and loads the actual installer either from the Internet or the network or from an installation CD.
win32-loader was initially an independent project for which only the network variant was available. After a long recording process, it became part of the official Debian distribution.
Dependency
win32-loader is heavily dependent on projects like NSIS , GRUB 2, loadlin and Debian-Installer. The inspiration came from related projects like Wubi and Instlux .
features
- Transparent , automatic detection of 32 or 64 bit architectures , which means that the corresponding software packages are installed later.
- Evaluation of any existing Windows configurations ( time zone , proxy etc.) that are transferred during the installation.
- Translated into 87 languages so far. The language selected at the beginning is used as the default for the entire installation process.
history
It was originally developed for Debian version 3.1 (code name "sarge"), the first official release of a Linux distribution with which it was shipped was Skolelinux Venus (1.0). At first only the character-based surface was offered, with Debian 4.0 (code name "etch") the graphical surface was introduced.