DEBIAN-...LAUNCHER(8)

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💅 DEBIAN-...LAUNCHER — section 8 of the manual, bestie

okay so. You know how there's a whole Debian Installer situation, and sometimes you're on a live system and you want a cute little desktop button that just launches the whole thing? That's this. The manual page is called DEBIAN-...LAUNCHER(8) and it lives in section 8 of the manual, and it is literally called "Debian Installer desktop launcher". Sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

debian-installer-launcher — Debian Installer desktop launcher

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

debian-installer-launcher [PLUGIN] [PLUGIN_OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this is a desktop launcher for Debian Installer images. It is intended to be used on Debian Live systems. That's its whole thing, that's its moment, that's its era. 👑

And listen — you probably do not want to install this package onto a non-live system, like... it's not built for that. Although, and this is the tea, it will do no harm. So it's not dangerous, it's just not the vibe. It's giving "wrong place, no consequences." 😭

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • PLUGIN — this one specifies which plugin should be used. And right now? Currently only the 'live' plugin is available. That's it. That's the roster. One icon on the team. 🌟

🎀 LIVE PLUGIN OPTIONS 🎀

These are the options for the live plugin specifically, so keep that in mind bestie, they're not universal. ✨

  • -e, --expert — so the live plugin defaults to using standard priority. With this option though, the installer priority can be set to low, which is commonly known as the 'expert mode' of the installer. It's giving main character, it's giving "I know what I'm doing." 💅
  • -t, --text — the live plugin defaults to using the GTK+ installer frontend, if it's available/possible. With this option, the text frontend can be enforced. And heads up: if you use this while you're in a GUI, a terminal-emulator will be opened to show the text installer. Not me getting a whole extra window opened just to do text mode. iconic behavior honestly. 🖥️✨

🗂️ FILES 🗂️

/run/live/installer

That's the one and only file mentioned, bestie. Memorize it or don't, but it's there. 🌈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

🏠 HOMEPAGE 🏠

More information about Debian Installer and the Debian project can be found on the homepage at <http://www.debian.org/>, and more about the Debian Live project at <http://live.debian.net/>. Go read, it's good for you, it's like brain food but free. 📚💖

💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Okay so here's how you report it, listen carefully:

  • Submit a bugreport for the debian-installer-launcher package in the Debian Bug Tracking System at <http://bugs.debian.org/> — that's the prefered way (keeping their spelling, no cap, that's literally how it's written 💀).
  • Or, alternatively, write a mail to the Debian Boot mailing list at <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
  • or the Debian Live mailing list at <debian-live@lists.debian.org>.

Pick your fave, they're all valid. Go off. 🐛🔫

👑 AUTHORS 👑

debian-installer-launcher was written by Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> and Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>. Two legends, one launcher. Respect the architects. 🫶

okay that's the whole page, bestie, we made it to the end and I'm so proud of us 🥹 This little manual page is version 7 from 2011-10-29, and it's section 8 of the Debian Installer desktop launcher docs — so if you ever forget any of this, you know exactly where to find it. Now go launch something. slay 💅✨🌈

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