[Hamara-devel] Can we use Something like Ubiquity for Hamara sugam

[Raju DV]

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On सोमवार 17 ऑगस्ट 2015 08:05 म.नं., shirish wrote:
> in-line :-
> 
> On Monday 17 August 2015 07:30 PM, Raju DV wrote:
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>> My opinion is that Debian Installer is much complicated for the naive
>> users compared to the Ubiquity. (Although not as complicated as
>> Anaconda of Fedora..)
>> I was taking a look if we can replace Debian Installer completely.
> 
> Hi Raju,
> Good to see you using pgp but it's good when you are sending encrypted
> mails to somebody, it's sorta useless on a public mailing list other
> than making a statement, although I have also done it in the past :)
Point noted. will be careful from now on.
> 
> I do agree that D-I is complicated but which one have you used, did you
> try the expert one only or also the one which is the GUI one which has
> come in the last couple of releases. Do you think even that one is
> complicated ?
Yes That one is still complicated for other users
> 
>> The Linux Mint project have developed the Mint-Installer for LMDE
>> (Linux Mint Debian Edition)
>>   https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-debian-install
> 
> I would caution you with this one as this one is pretty old so there is
> and would be lot of cruft to work through. I do see however that almost
> 7-8 people have forked it in the recent months but none of them have
> made any commits on the same.
> 
> https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-debian-installer/network/members
> 
> The live installer also resides at
> https://github.com/linuxmint/live-installer so you could look at that as
> well.

By stating the example of mint-debian-installer I did not mean to use
it. I meant If we can use something similar to it.

I just found this great alternative to Debian Installer
Calamares,
https://calamares.io/
 I am taking a look on how can I get it to work with our release
> 
>>
>> The mint-installer is a lot similar to Ubiquity and is even usable by
>> novice users.
>>
>> By any chance, can we replace D-I with something else.
>>
>> Raju.
> 
> 
> I do agree it would be better if we have a slicker looking installer, I
> am ok with either as the licensing of both is same/similar.
> 
> mint-debian-installer is also gpl2 so that's good :)
> 
> https://github.com/linuxmint/mint-debian-installer/blob/master/debian/copyright
> 
> 
> Rest is upto the team :)
> 
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