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Calamares: Distribution-Independent Installer Framework


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Dependencies

Main:

  • Compiler with C++11 support: GCC >= 4.9.0 or Clang >= 3.5.1
  • CMake >= 2.8.12
  • Qt >= 5.3
  • yaml-cpp >= 0.5.1
  • Python >= 3.3
  • Boost.Python >= 1.55.0
  • dmidecode

Modules:

  • welcome:
  • NetworkManager
  • UPower
  • partition:
  • extra-cmake-modules
  • KF5: KCoreAddons, KConfig, KI18n, KIconThemes, KIO, KService
  • KPMcore >= 2.1
  • sgdisk
  • bootloader:
  • systemd-boot or GRUB
  • sgdisk
  • unpackfs:
  • squashfs-tools
  • rsync

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 ..
$ 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 in src/modules (e.g. cmake -DSKIP_MODULES="partition mount umount welcome" ..). Default is empty.

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.