NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
is a graphical installer for Ubuntu, written largely in Python, using
c debian-installer
as a backend for many of its functions.
It is normally invoked from a desktop icon, and presents a "wizard"-style
graphical user interface.
must be run as root, and will escalate privileges for itself using
c gksudo ,
c kdesu ,
or
c sudo
as appropriate.
has multiple frontends, including one written using GTK+
and one written for KDE
The first non-option argument, if any, is interpreted as the name of the
frontend to use.
The following options are available:
- file
This option is passed through to
c gksudo
to provide a better description for its privilege-escalation message.
It is only relevant when using the
or
frontend.
- debug
Run in debugging mode, sending verbose information to
that may be useful to developers.
(The
file is usually required in any case, along with
in the case of problems related to partitioning.)
pdb
Drop into the Python debugger in the event of a crash.
Only effective if
is being run from a terminal.
cdebconf
Use
c cdebconf
instead of the traditional Perl
c debconf
implementation.
In future this may provide enough memory efficiency benefits to be made the
default, but for now it is not really worthwhile and is therefore for
experimental use only.
no-migration-assistant
Disable
c migration-assistant ,
which attempts to migrate documents and settings from other installed
operating systems.
If the migration process causes problems, please file a bug and use this
option.
automatic
Skip over questions that have been pre-answered by use of a preseed file.
This is useful for unattended installations.
AUTHORS
Ubiquity was formerly known as "Espresso", and originally as "Ubuntu
Express", which is written and maintained by
and
This version draws on the work done on Ubuntu Express, but was renamed to
avoid confusion, to reduce awkward branding considerations, and because
Ubiquity concentrates on reusing
c debian-installer
code and reducing duplicated translation and branding work as much as
possible.
Ubiquity has now substantially diverged from Ubuntu Express and is an
independent project.
was mainly developed by
and
with contributions from many others.
The
frontend was developed by