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[Chan Ju Ping <email@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, 6 June 2017 03:06:34 +08 advocatux wrote:
> El 05/06/17 a las 18:58, NeoTheThird escribió:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > there are various methods of flashing the devices. A failsafe but not
> > very noob-friendly guide is on the UBports wiki:
> > https://wiki.ubports.com/wiki/How-to-flash-existing-ubuntu-touch-devices-w
> > ith-Ubports-images
> > 
> > Then there's Magic Device Tool, but that's not created by UBports, so
> > we can't make sure it always works (even though it does most of the
> > time): https://github.com/MariusQuabeck/magic-device-tool
> > 
> > We're also testing our own graphical installer, but it's still in
> > Beta, so there might be hiccups:
> > https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer/
> > [---snip---]
> 
> Hi NeoTheThird, first of all thank you for your work.
> 
> Once said that I want to know, is it mandatory to have an Ubuntu machine
> to install an Ubport image in a device?
> 
> Cheers

I tried with my primary machine running openSUSE Tumbleweed first. It won't 
work because there are several programs that are needed that are not in the 
openSUSE repositories. 

So the most convenient way using the methods on the wiki for me was to use a 
dedicated Ubuntu machine.

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