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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:16:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: Calamares installer
From: "Achill Gilgenast" <achill@achill.org>
To: "Liam Proven" <lproven@gmail.com>, <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>
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On Tue Aug 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM CEST, Liam Proven wrote:
> I have finally managed to make email contact with Ben Young, "computermou=
th":
> https://github.com/computermouth
>
> He's the maintainer of Crunchbang++ which is one of 2 continuations of
> the Crunchbang Linux distro.
>
> https://crunchbangplusplus.org/
>
> This is a lighter-weight Debian-based remix. He just put out a version
> based on Debian 13 and was dismayed that he could no longer offer a
> 32-bit edition, as Debian "Trixie" no longer offers an x86-32 flavour.
>
> He is interested in doing a "Crunchpine" based on Alpine, which he
> said he uses and loves. However, 6 months or a year ago, he told me on
> Reddit that he had problems with getting Calamares working. I offered
> to put him in touch with Adriaan de Groot (developer of Calamares) who
> I met at a conference.
>
> Now CB++ 13 is out Young has had time to start looking at Alpine again
> but he tells me he found the Calamares package has been dropped.
>
> Is that something which could be considered for reversion?

Looking at:

commit 54b8d7aa76e3bc2668b442b57f43b4ea81ccb5b1
Author: Oliver Smith <ollieparanoid@postmarketos.org>
Date:   Wed Feb 7 09:01:38 2024 +0000

    community/calamares: remove
   =20
    postmarketOS doesn't have any use for it anymore, and there are no
    Alpine calamares installer images.
   =20
    Related: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2023/12/18/v23.12-release/#notab=
le-changes
             "Installation images have been removed."

Reviving it shouldn't be a problem per se.

It would be nice if someone could test if
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/89247
works.

>
> CB++ offers a very light environment with Openbox and tint2 and a lot
> of customisation scripts. It's my single favourite non-desktop Linux
> GUI. I think a version based on Alpine would be wonderful to have and
> might attract many more users to Alpine.