href="mailto:rodsmith@rodsbooks.com">rodsmith@rodsbooks.com</a></p>
<p>Originally written: 3/14/2012; last Web page update:
-5/16/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.1</p>
+6/8/2014, referencing rEFInd 0.8.2</p>
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<ul>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-bin-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-bin-0.8.2.zip/download">A
binary zip file</a></b>—Download this if you want to install
rEFInd and/or its filesystem drivers on an <i>x</i>86 or <i>x</i>86-64
computer and have no need to test rEFInd first by booting it on an
href="installing.html">Installing rEFInd</a> page. Some users of Arch
Linux have reported problems booting some specific Arch Linux kernels
with rEFInd and some other tools. For them, a <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.1.zip/download">variant
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.2.zip/download">variant
package</a> exists in which the <i>x</i>86-64 binary was compiled with
GNU-EFI rather than the usual TianoCore EDK2. This change helps some
users with this problem.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-0.8.1-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-0.8.2-1.x86_64.rpm/download">A
binary RPM file</a></b>—If you use an RPM-based <i>x</i>86-64
Linux system such as Fedora or openSUSE, you can install the binary RPM
package rather than use the binary zip file. (I don't provide an
rEFInd</a> page) as part of the installation process. Distribution
maintainers can examine the <tt>refind.spec</tt> file in the source
package and tweak it to their needs. The <a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-0.8.1-1.src.rpm/download">source
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-0.8.2-1.src.rpm/download">source
RPM file</a> might or might not build on your system as-is; it relies
on assumptions about the locations of the GNU-EFI development
files.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind_0.8.1-1_amd64.deb/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind_0.8.2-1_amd64.deb/download">A
binary Debian package</a></b>—If you use an <i>x</i>86-64 version
of Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian-based distribution, you can
install from this package, which was converted from the binary RPM
- package using <tt>alien</tt>.</li>
+ package using <tt>alien</tt>. Note that an <a href="#ppa">Ubuntu
+ PPA</a> is available, which may install more smoothly and will cause
+ rEFInd to automatically update with other packages.</li>
<!--
<li><b><a
<p class="sidebar"><b>Note:</b> At the moment, neither the bootable CD-R image file nor the bootable USB flash drive image file supports booting with Secure Boot active. The x86-64 version of the <a href="http://en.altlinux.org/Rescue">ALT Linux Rescue disc</a> uses a Secure Boot-enabled rEFInd, though, so you may find that useful in some situations.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-cd-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-cd-0.8.2.zip/download">A
CD-R image file</a></b>—This download contains the same files as
the binary zip file, but you can burn it to a CD-R to test rEFInd
(and its filesystem drivers) without installing it first. (It boots on
computer.</p>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-flashdrive-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-flashdrive-0.8.2.zip/download">A
USB flash drive image file</a></b>—Although you can create
your own rEFInd USB flash drive, you may find it easier to download
this version and copy it to your USB drive with <tt>dd</tt> or some
other low-level disk copying utility.</li>
<li><b><a
- href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.1/refind-src-0.8.1.zip/download">A
+ href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.8.2/refind-src-0.8.2.zip/download">A
source code zip file</a></b>—This is useful if you want to compile
the software locally. Note that I use Linux with the <a
href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/tianocore/">TianoCore EFI
<ul>
-<li><b>Ubuntu</b>—Although an official Ubuntu package isn't
- available, I've created a <a
+<li><a name="ppa"><b>Ubuntu</b></a>—Although an official Ubuntu
+
package isn't available, I've created a <a
href="https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/refind">rEFInd PPA</a>
for Ubuntu. To use it, type <tt class="userinput">sudo
apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind</tt>, then <tt