Debian (Jessie/Stretch/Sid) installer

[Knowbody]

Originally Posted by fooctrl

With latest version of script, Ubuntu is also supported (>=15.04 to <=16.04).

However, there's no support for Mint right now. Due to the reason that Mint still uses Upstart, while this script support anything that's running on Systemd.

It's possible to have systemd installed on mint though, so you could just run a check to see if it's running systemd.

*edit*
Just looking through the official install script, it looks like it does detect and support both upstart and systemd (this is from version 1.1.62):

detect_init_daemon()
{
    INIT=$(readlink /proc/1/exe)
    if [ "$INIT" == "/sbin/init" ]; then
        INIT=$(/sbin/init --version)
    fi

    [ -z "${INIT##*upstart*}" ] && SYSTEMINITDAEMON="upstart"
    [ -z "${INIT##*systemd*}" ] && SYSTEMINITDAEMON="systemd"

    if [ -z "$SYSTEMINITDAEMON" ]; then
        echo "ERROR: the installer script is unable to find out how to start DisplayLinkManager service automatically on your system." >&2
        echo "Please set an environment variable SYSTEMINITDAEMON to 'upstart' or 'systemd' before running the installation script to force one of the options." >&2
        echo "Installation terminated." >&2
        exit 1
    fi
}

And the install function calls a couple of different functions depending on whether systemd or upstart is used:

  if [ "upstart" == "$SYSTEMINITDAEMON" ]; then
    echo "Starting DLM upstart job"
    add_upstart_script
    add_pm_script "upstart"
    start displaylink
  elif [ "systemd" == "$SYSTEMINITDAEMON" ]; then
    echo "Starting DLM systemd service"
    add_systemd_service
    add_pm_script "systemd"
    systemctl start displaylink.service
  fi

It just doesn't support sysvinit