Using sdm plugins on a system created without sdm
August 10, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
So you have a system that you configured up without using sdm, and now you want to use one of the sdm Plugins because they're so cool?
It's pretty simple. Here's how:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gitbls/sdm/master/install-sdm | bash
install-sdm will:
- Download and install sdm into
/usr/local/sdm - Create and populate the directory tree
/etc/sdm - Create a link from
/usr/local/bin/sdmto/usr/local/sdm/sdm
That's it! Then, to run a plugin (in this case, the hotspot plugin) on your running system:
sudo sdm --runonly plugins --oklive --plugin hotspot
This should work for all plugins except for explore, extractfs, and parted.
Of course you can also use sdm to customize IMGs and burn them to SSDs/SD Cards.