This article describes how to install XDM on any linux distribution.
If you have any outdated version installed already, please remove them completely.
Also remove any directory named xdman under /opt ( open terminal and type rm -rf /opt/xdman and restart your computer )
Installation steps:
- Download the installation archive from: http://xdman.sourceforge.net/#downloads
2. Lets asume you have downloaded the file in your download folder. (~/Downloads) ( make sure the file name after download is xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz or xdm-2018-x86.tar.xz, not xdm-2018-x86.tar(1).xz etc )
- Open terminal and switch to the directory using cd ~/Downloads
- Now type tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz or tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz
- Threre should a file named install.sh created inside the folder now
- Now you will need to be root user to start installation ( use sudo if you are using ubuntu/debian/mint/solus/elementary etc, and su -C for SUSE, manjaro, fedora etc )
- Type sudo ./install.sh or su -C ./install.sh
- After installation is done then start XDM from start menu.