Calamares: Distribution-Independent Installer Framework

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Dependencies

Main	Partitioning Module
CMake >= 2.8.12	extra-cmake-modules
Qt >= 5.3	kconfig (part of KF5)
yaml-cpp >= 0.5.1	solid (part of KF5)
Python >= 3.3	kcoreaddons (part of KF5)
Boost.Python >= 1.55.0	ki18n (part of KF5)

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 -DWITH_PARTITIONMANAGER=1 ..
$ make

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).

2. 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.
• Themeable, so branding can be done easily (plugin-based, TBD).
• Presents a bunch of pages in a scripted order, enqueues jobs in the back-end library.

3. calamares - The main executable.

• A thin wrapper around libcalamaresui; starts up and plugs together all the parts.