Lubuntu with Calamares

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nadebula.1984
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I learned that Lubuntu (despite being an official Ubuntu spin) switched to Calamares in late 2018 so I did a quick testing.

Finally, I could successfully install it on certain UEFI systems. I could never install Ubuntu/Mint on said UEFI systems for many years (and therefore have been complaining about it for that many years).

If you want to learn more about Calamares, I could test them (e.g. full disk encryption and logical volume management). But I'm strongly against using Lubuntu or any other Ubuntu spin. I didn't even get a chance to reject proprietary firmware/codecs during installation, so I have to manually uninstall them.

lanun
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You should test Calamares with Parabola. It is FSDG compliant and uses linux-libre. It also comes in OpenRC and systemd flavors.

https://calamares.io/about/#who-ships-calamares
https://wiki.parabola.nu/Get_Parabola#Parabola_OpenRC_LXDE_ISO

PublicLewdness
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"You should test Calamares with Parabola. It is FSDG compliant and uses linux-libre. It also comes in OpenRC and systemd flavors."

My experience with the Calamares installer with Parabola was it would crash if I tried to use full disk encryption during install. I reported this nine months ago and nothing seems to have been done about it. I will retest it and maybe file a report with Calamares themselves to see if they can fix it.

https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/2923

Vanecek
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Hello lanun,

have you made an successful installation of Parabola OpenRC with the Calamares Installer?

I have tried it many times without success, the Parabols SystemD Version i could install, but afterwards i wasn't able to update the system, because of key signing erros, a very frustrating experience.

nadebula.1984
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It is true that certain public keys couldn't be retrieved. Maybe you need to temporarily disable signature verification.