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Platform and hardware support

As with all niche software, their popularity doesn’t always result in the latest version being made available in the software repositories of most popular desktop distros.

With the exception of, all the other applications are available in the software repositories of distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, Arch and others. The project provides 32- and 64-bit packages for Windows and Linux, providing both RPM and DEB packages. You’ll also find the DEB package for RPi ARM as well as FreeBSD. Similar packages are available for different catalogues. The documentation provides up-to-date instructions on how to install the project on different platforms, and even distros such as Mageia, Debian, Ubuntu and more. You’ll also find instructions on creating a portable instance of which can be run from a pen drive.

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