placeholder image 1What is Calamares

Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases. Calamares aims to be easy, usable & beautiful while remaining independent of any particular Linux distribution.

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placeholder image 2Knowledge Base

The Guide linked above has documentation for end-users, the wiki is mostly for distro developers. The developer’s guide contains information on building Calamares, on its design, and localization.

Wiki

Calamares look

Since Calamares is designed to be customized, themed and branded by individual distributions, it can look very different when used by specific distributions. A separate extensions package contains examples and custom modules.

Extensions

Latest News:

Calamares 3.2.56 released

This is a regular short-cycle release. There are a handful of bugfixes. Note that Calamares 3.2 development is winding down, and work is moving to the 3.3 series. This means that Calamares 3.2 branch will soon change to “bugfix-only” mode with infrequent release, and 3.3 will get the regular updates. Stay tuned for a more detailed roadmap.

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Calamares 3.2.55 released

This is a regular short-cycle release. There are a handful of bugfixes, new translations and one new feature.

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Calamares 3.2.54 released

This is a regular short-cycle release. There are a handful of bugfixes and one new feature.

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