How To Install calamares on Fedora 34

calamares is Installer from a live CD/DVD/USB to disk

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install calamares on Fedora 34.

What is `calamares`

Calamares is a distribution-independent installer framework, designed to install from a live CD/DVD/USB environment to a hard disk. It includes a graphical installation program based on Qt 5. This package includes the Calamares framework and the required configuration files to produce a working replacement for Anaconda’s liveinst.

We can use yum or dnf to install calamares on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install calamares.

Install calamares on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install calamares using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install calamares

Install calamares on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install calamares using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install calamares

How To Uninstall calamares on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the calamares package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove calamares

calamares Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/calamares
/etc/calamares/branding
/etc/calamares/modules
/usr/bin/calamares
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/5a9d8da36d64bd4aaecb75209bc24c12efa4df
/usr/share/applications/calamares.desktop
/usr/share/calamares
/usr/share/calamares/branding
/usr/share/calamares/branding/auto
/usr/share/calamares/branding/auto/branding.desc
/usr/share/calamares/branding/auto/lang
/usr/share/calamares/branding/auto/lang/calamares-auto_de.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/auto/lang/calamares-auto_fr.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/auto/lang/calamares-auto_it.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/auto/show.qml
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/banner.png
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/banner.png.license
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/branding.desc
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/branding.desc.default-settings
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/lang
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/lang/calamares-default_ar.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/lang/calamares-default_en.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/lang/calamares-default_eo.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/lang/calamares-default_fr.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/lang/calamares-default_nl.qm
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/languages.png
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/languages.png.license
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/show.qml
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/squid.png
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/squid.png.license
/usr/share/calamares/branding/default/stylesheet.qss
/usr/share/calamares/modules
/usr/share/calamares/modules/bootloader.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/contextualprocess.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/displaymanager.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/dummycpp.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/dummypython.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/finished.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/finishedq.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/fsresizer.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/fstab.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/grubcfg.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/initcpio.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/initramfs.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/keyboard.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/keyboardq.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/license.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/locale.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/localeq.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/luksopenswaphookcfg.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/machineid.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/mount.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/netinstall.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/notesqml.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/oemid.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/openrcdmcryptcfg.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/owncloud.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/packagechooser.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/packages.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/partition.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/plymouthcfg.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/preservefiles.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/rawfs.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/removeuser.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/services-openrc.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/services-systemd.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/shellprocess.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/tracking.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/umount.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/unpackfs.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/users.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/usersq.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/welcome.conf
/usr/share/calamares/modules/welcomeq.conf
/usr/share/calamares/qml
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/BackButton.qml
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/ForwardButton.qml
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/NavButton.qml
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/Presentation.qml
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/Slide.qml
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/SlideCounter.qml
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/qmldir
/usr/share/calamares/qml/calamares/slideshow/qmldir.license
/usr/share/calamares/settings.conf
/usr/share/doc/calamares
/usr/share/doc/calamares/AUTHORS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/calamares.svg
/usr/share/licenses/calamares
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/BSD-2-Clause.txt
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/CC-BY-4.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/CC0-1.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/LGPL-2.0-only.txt
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/LGPL-2.1-only.txt
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/LGPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/calamares/MIT.txt
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/az_AZ/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_PR/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi_FI/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr_TR/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/calamares-python.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/calamares.8.gz

References

calamares website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install calamares on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.