[Hamara-devel] Progress with the Calamares Installer

[Raju DV]

On 08/24/2015 05:57 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 24/08/15 10:49, Raju DV wrote:
>> I finally managed to successfully build Calamares at last.
>>
>> I followed the build instructions as given on calamares repo on github
>>
>> https://github.com/calamares/calamares
>>
>> but my distribution (Debian Jessie) was not having a lot of dependencies
>> available. So I built some dependency packages from source but still the
>> dependencies were not being met, specially some KDE components.
>>
>> I found that some of the dependent packages are already available in
>> Debian Stretch. I did an upgrade with my distro to stretch and built it
>> again.
>> and managed to build calamares successfully.
> I guess you didn't find them in backports?

Using backports didn't come to my mind. Anyways I have updated and I am
on Stretch now.

> 
> 
>>
>> So as stated in the line no.19 in the above paste,
>> I have to work on setting up these files within the sugam build.
>>
>> /etc/calamares/settings.conf
>> /usr/local/share/calamares/settings.conf
> Interested to know what these configs do - as compared to d-i. I suspect
> their purpose is similar.
> 
> Also does calamares use preseed?

As far as I know. It doesn't. I will update on this on what exactly does
Calamares uses to configure the installer?

> 
> Vik
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