This document lists the tested distributions, shows the last UPDD version tested and any caveats.
It is not our intention to test further distributions in the belief that UPDD will work for the majority of Linux distributions. We will, however, test if informed otherwise.
| Distribution |
Version |
Name |
Arch |
V6 release |
Caveat |
| CentOS |
6.x |
|
X64 |
6.0.168 |
|
| CentOS |
7.x |
|
X64 |
6.0.168 |
|
| Fedora Core |
18 |
|
X64 |
6.0.168 |
System tray icon is not visible.
Device hot plug not supported.
Perl must be installed before installing using the command
'sudo yum install perl' |
| Redhat |
6.x |
|
X64 |
6.0.168 |
|
| Redhat |
7.x |
|
x64 |
6.0.168 |
|
| SLED |
12 |
|
x64 |
6.0.168 |
System tray icon is not visible until after a restart |
| Ubuntu |
16.04 |
|
x64 |
6.0.168 |
System tray icon is not visible until after a restart |
| Slacko Puppy |
6.3.2 |
|
x64 |
6.0.557 |
Bash shell is not working as expected so commands need to be preceded with ./upddenv. e.g. ./upddenv ./upddutils devices
Enable setting usb.abort_on_nodevice to rediscover disconnected and reconnected devices.
UPDD Daemon process runs during install and performs the required initial start up functions, but not after reboot, hence no menu bar icon in the Notification Area. To run UPDD Daemon after reboot:
|
| Alpine |
|
|
X64 |
6.0.586 |
This distribution is supported as described here. |
This lists distributions that are known to be OK as informed by our end users:
| Distribution |
Version |
Name |
Arch |
V6 release |
Caveat |
| ArchLinux |
|
|
X64 |
6.0.173 |
|
| Linux Mint |
18 & 19 |
|
X64 |
6.0.418 |
|
| OpenSuSE |
Leap15 |
|
X64 |
6.0.444 |
|
| Q4OS |
Buster |
|
X86 |
6.0.636 |
Installed libpng12-0 from an older distribution “Wheezy” as was not available in distro “Buster”.
libudev.so.0 dependency was resolved by creating symbolic link to libdev.so.1 |