Debian-Installer
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Debian-Installer is a system installer designed for the Debian Linux distribution. It originally appeared in the Debian release 3.1 (Sarge),[2] released on June 6, 2005,[3] although the first release of a Linux distribution that used it was Skolelinux (Debian-Edu) 1.0, released in June 2004.[4]
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Original author(s) | Debian Project |
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Developer(s) | Debian Install System Team |
Initial release | June 6, 2005; 18 years ago (2005-06-06) |
Stable release | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Microcosm of Debian, made of udebs (loading from Windows is supported via win32-loader) |
Available in | 87 languages |
Type | System installer |
License | GPL |
Website | www |
It is also one of two official installers available for Ubuntu, the other being called Ubiquity (itself based on parts of debian-installer) which was introduced in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).
It makes use of cdebconf (a re-implementation of debconf in C) to perform configuration at install time.
Originally, it was only supported under text-mode and ncurses. A graphical front-end (using GTK-DirectFB) was first introduced in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), it is used over Xorg instead of DirectFB.