Calamares aims to be easy, usable, beautiful, pragmatic, inclusive and distribution-agnostic. It is developed on Codeberg.

ProTip: This section is about using Calamares to install your system. If you are reading this, it is probably because your distribution doesn’t have a more detailed set of instructions.

Calamares aims to be easy, usable, beautiful, pragmatic, inclusive and distribution-agnostic. Calamares includes an advanced partitioning feature, with support for both manual and …

Install When you reach this step, Calamares does the actual work of doing the installation. Since this can take a long time, you can watch a slideshow here. Some distributions even let you …

The idea of Calamares arose from a desire of several independent Linux distributions to come together and work on a shared system installer. Instead of everyone working on their own …

Calamares checks if there is internet connectivity (this is used by many distributions for package functions) by loading a well-known page. This is configured by the distribution.

If you cannot select the disk you have in mind – if the disk is not in the drop-down list of devices – then Calamares has some reason not to want to install on it.

Dec 31, 2024 · If you experience an issue with Calamares, please tell us all about it on the Calamares issue tracker. For a full change list, see the full list of issues closed within the …

Nov 5, 2021 · But you don’t have to wait for new ISO images to test Calamares. This post explains how to build and run the latest Calamares from a not-latest KDE neon image.

May 5, 2022 · At some point, a 3.2.x-stable will be created, and any future releases will come from that, while calamares then moves into the 3.3 era. There is no fixed timeline for this.