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 …

Calamares does some basic checking here to see if the system is usable for installation, and will warn you if something seems to be wrong. Having less than the shown disc space or available …

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 …

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.