Distribution-independent installer framework
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instead of having to hope users save an installation log before leaving live mode, this commit gives distributions the option to have a full calamares -d log available on the newly installed system see the readme.md for details this is fully tested and working properly, using the example launcher script & .desktop line as noted in the readme |
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Calamares: Distribution-Independent Installer Framework
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Dependencies
Compiler with C++11 support: GCC >= 4.9.0 or Clang >= 3.5.1
| Main | Welcome module | Partitioning module | Bootloader module | Unpackfs module |
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| CMake >= 2.8.12 | NetworkManager | extra-cmake-modules | systemd-boot or GRUB2 | squashfs-tools |
| Qt >= 5.3 | UPower | kconfig (part of KF5) | sgdisk | rsync |
| yaml-cpp >= 0.5.1 | solid (part of KF5) | |||
| Python >= 3.3 | kcoreaddons (part of KF5) | |||
| Boost.Python >= 1.55.0 | ki18n (part of KF5) | |||
| dmidecode | sgdisk |
Deployment
Building
Clone Calamares from GitHub and cd into the calamares directory, then:
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
$ make
Supported variables for CMake
WITH_PYTHON- if this is set to false, the Python module interface will not be built. Default is true.SKIP_MODULES- takes a space-separated list of module names that should not be built even if present insrc/modules(e.g.cmake -DSKIP_MODULES="partition mount umount welcome" ..). Default is empty.
Design Notes
Calamares is currently split as follows:
- libcalamares - The back-end library.
- Only depends on QtCore, yaml-cpp, Python and Boost.Python.
- Provides a job queue and generic jobs.
- Comes with 3 job interfaces: C++, Python and process (the latter is very limited).
- libcalamaresui - The front-end library.
- Same dependencies as libcalamares, plus QtWidgets and other Qt modules.
- Comes with a module loading system, for different kinds of plugins.
- Supports branding components.
- Presents a bunch of pages in a scripted order, enqueues jobs in the back-end library.
- calamares - The main executable.
- A thin wrapper around libcalamaresui; starts up and plugs together all the parts.