Calamares 2.4.4 GUI Installer Improves Flag Management of EFI System Partitions

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The development team behind the open source Calamares universal installer framework used in various GNU/Linux distributions, including Chakra, KaOS, and Netrunner, announced the release of version 2.4.4.

Calamares 2.4.4 is the fourth maintenance update to the stable 2.4 series, adding a bunch of improvements and new features. Among these, we can mention improvements to the flag management of EFI system partitions, which deprecates the use of the sgdisk program, and better parsing of SDDM display manager configuration.

Furthermore, there’s now support for selecting visible groups in the netinstall module by default, a new option that allows updating the database of packages before running any other package management operation, and support for the “try_remove” and “try_install” parameters in the packages module configuration.

Calamares 2.4.4 requires KPMcore 2.2 or 2.2.1

Among other changes implemented in the Calamares 2.4.4 release, we can mentio… (read more)

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