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Calamares: Distribution-Independent Installer Framework


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Dependencies

Compiler with C++11 support: GCC >= 4.8.4 or Clang >= 3.5.1

Main Welcome module Partitioning module Bootloader module Unpackfs module
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

Setting up branding

Working with modules

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 -DWITH_PARTITIONMANAGER=1 ..
$ make

Design Notes

Calamares is currently split as follows:

  1. 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).
  1. 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.
  1. calamares - The main executable.
  • A thin wrapper around libcalamaresui; starts up and plugs together all the parts.