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How to install XDM on any Linux distribution

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If you have any outdated version installed already, please remove them completely.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:

  1. 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 )
  2. Open terminal and switch to the directory using cd ~/Downloads
  3. Now type tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz or tar xvf xdm-2018-x64.tar.xz
  4. Threre should a file named install.sh created inside the folder now
  5. 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 )
  6. Type sudo ./install.sh or su -C ./install.sh
  7. After installation is done then start XDM from start menu.
Posted by Subhra Das Gupta 2018-03-14

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