Calamares - the Linux System Installer
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A distro-agnostic, brandable installer that actually ships and is used by Debian, Fedora and Arch derivatives, Calamares combines a Qt/QML UI with KPMCore + sfdisk backend for partitioning, a Python module API for extensibility, and unpackers that handle squashfs, tarballs or block images. It supports 52 languages, adds XDG config overlays, openRC and AppImage support for OEM flows, and upstreams downstream modules; distros run it in production and use it to build custom installers.
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