Greetings Everyone
On September 26, the package Calamares got accepted
in Debian.
It is currently available in Debian
unstable/sid [4]
As the description of the package states.
Calamares is a distribution-independent installer
framework.
It provides a graphical installer that can
be used with nearly any
distribution. This package is suitable for live media
on Debian-based
systems, and won't be of any particular use on and
already installed
system.
Calamares is the first Installer into
Debian apart from Debian
installer. It is one of the few OS installers which
is simple to use
even for newbies. While still providing enough
configuration options for
installations.
This package will simplify installation of
Debian/Derivatives to a great extent.
It is also a package under Fedora [5].
A lot of distributions based on Debian, Fedora, Arch,
Manjaro etc have
already started using calamares as there default
installer.
Calamares is a great installer, however it is lacking
translations for
Indian languages.
A few of us at Hamara are already on to translating a
few Indic
languages. But translating all Indic languages will
require people of
the particular language to step in.
Few Indian languages which have already been added on
the transifex page [3] for Calamares are Hindi,
Gujarati, Urdu & Marathi .
You can request translation of calamares in your
language on to calamares Transifex page.
If you are an open source contributor or translator,
I request you to consider translating
Calamares into Indian languages that you know.
If you are part of a team of translators then you can
request your team
to make this happen.
Understand that this contribution to calamares project will
not be a contribution for any particular operating system, but
for all the operating systems which use calamares installer.
We at the Hamara Linux Project are also evaluating
Calamares as an
installer for Hamara Linux. And so far the evaluation
is going great.
You can try a development build of Hamara here [6] to
get a feel of
calamares installer. Make sure you boot into
the live desktop before starting the installer.
It uses calamares Installer only when you boot live
into the desktop of
it. If you start the Installation directly from
outside, it will still
use Debian Installer from the outside.
We would like to see Indian languages in Calamares
Installer which can
be used by Hamara as well as other distributions, may
be Debian themself. (Hopefully )
If you are not a translator, but you know someone who
is, let them know
about this.
You can also forward this mail to other relevant
mailing lists so that
they know about this.
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[1]About calamares https://calamares.io/about
[2]Git repo of calamares https://github.com/calamares/calamares
[3]Transifex page for calamares
https://www.transifex.com/calamares/calamares
[4]Package details of Calamares in Debian
https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/calamares.html
[5]Package details of Calamares in Fedora
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/calamares
[6]Development build of Hamara Sugam 2.0 with
Calamares Installer
http://in.devel.hamaralinux.org/iso/hamara-sugam/hamara-sugam-live-2.0-beta-amd64.iso
Thanks,
Raju Devidas