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6 calamares - distribution-independent system installer
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9 calamares [options]
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12 calamares is a distribution-independent system installer, with an ad‐
13 vanced partitioning feature for both manual and automated partitioning
14 operations. It is the first installer with an automated “Replace Parti‐
15 tion” option, which makes it easy to reuse a partition over and over
16 for distribution testing. Calamares is designed to be customizable by
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29 Debugging mode for testing purposes. Implies -D8 and -c..
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35 Configuration directory to use, for testing purposes.
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45 calamares reads its configuration from many files. The first configu‐
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47 tion locations. When started with -d calamares looks in the current
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58 The calamares website: https://calamares.io .
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60 The command-line arguments for calamares are primarily for developers
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62 calamares is deployed. Most live CD environments and OEM installations
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72 calamares is written by Teo Mrnjavac <teo@kde.org>, Adriaan de Groot
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