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# Cutefish Calamares
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> Calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an advanced partitioning
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> feature for both manual and automated partitioning operations. Calamares is designed to
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> be customizable by distribution maintainers without need for cumbersome patching,
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> thanks to third party branding and external modules support.
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## Target Audience
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Calamares is a Linux installer; users who install Linux on a computer will hopefully
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use it just **once**, to install their Linux distribution. Calamares is not
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a "ready to use" application: distributions apply a huge amount of customisation
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and configuration to Calamares, and the target audience for this repository
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is those distributions, and the people who make those Linux distro's.
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Calamares has some [generic user documentation](https://calamares.io/docs/users-guide/)
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for end-users, but most of what we have is for distro developers.
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## Getting Calamares
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Clone Calamares from GitHub. The default branch is called *calamares*.
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```
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git clone https://github.com/calamares/calamares.git
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```
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Calamares is a KDE-Frameworks and Qt-based, C++17, CMake-built application.
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The dependencies are explained in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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## Contributing to Calamares
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Calamares welcomes PRs. New issues are welcome, too.
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There are both the Calamares **core** repository (this one),
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and an **extensions** repository ([Calamares extensions](https://github.com/calamares/calamares-extensions)).
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Contributions to code, modules, documentation, the wiki and the website are all welcome.
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There is more information in the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
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## Join the Conversation
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GitHub Issues are **one** place for discussing Calamares if there are concrete
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problems or a new feature to discuss.
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Regular Calamares development chit-chat happens in a [Matrix](https://matrix.org/)
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room, `#calamares:kde.org`. The conversation is bridged with IRC
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on [Libera.Chat](https://libera.chat/).
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Responsiveness is best during the day
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in Europe, but feel free to idle. If you use IRC, **DO NOT** ask-and-leave. Keep
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that chat window open because it can easily take a few hours for
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someone to notice a message.
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Matrix is persistent, and we'll see your message eventually.
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* [](https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/%23calamares:kde.org)
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* [](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.libera.chat/#calamares)
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