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[[Anaconda]] is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and [[Anaconda/Distros| some other distributions]].

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During installation, a target computer's hardware is identified and configured and the appropriate file systems for the system's architecture are created. Finally, anaconda allows the user to install the operating system software on the target computer. anaconda can also upgrade existing installations of earlier versions of the same distribution. After the installation is complete, you can reboot into your installed system and continue doing customization using [~~[FirstBoot| firstboot]~~] .

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During installation, a target computer's hardware is identified and configured and the appropriate file systems for the system's architecture are created. Finally, anaconda allows the user to install the operating system software on the target computer. anaconda can also upgrade existing installations of earlier versions of the same distribution. After the installation is complete, you can reboot into your installed system and continue doing customization using [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewFirstboot the initial setup program].

anaconda is a fairly sophisticated installer. It supports installation from local and remote sources such as CDs and DVDs, images stored on a hard drive, NFS, HTTP, and FTP. Installation can be scripted with [[Anaconda/Kickstart| kickstart]] to provide a fully unattended installation that can be duplicated on scores of machines. It can also be run over VNC on headless machines. A variety of advanced storage devices including LVM, RAID, iSCSI, and multipath are supported from the partitioning program. anaconda provides advanced debugging features such as remote logging, access to the python interactive debugger, and remote saving of exception dumps.

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For information on how to customize anaconda and trees created with it, please see [[Anaconda/BuildDocProject| BuildDocProject]] and [[Anaconda/Customization| Customization]] .

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~~== Developers ==~~

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anaconda is now almost entirely written in Python 2. The graphical front end uses GTK+ 3 via gobject-introspection, and as much of the interface as possible is written using the glade interface builder. The earliest parts of anaconda are in shell for integration with dracut, and there's still a little bit of C thrown in for interfacing with certain libraries.

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~~Here are some documents if you are planning on working on anaconda. More is in the works:~~

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* [[Anaconda/Devel/Translation]]

== Mailing Lists ==

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== Developers' Guide ==

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If you want to work on Anaconda, you should start with the [[Anaconda/SourceOverview| Source Overview]] , which contains a high level discussion of the source files and what they do. Then look at ~~the [[Anaconda/Stage1DevelopmentGuide| stage1 development guide]] and~~ the [[Anaconda/Stage2DevelopmentGuide| stage2 development guide]] for information on how to test, debug, and develop ~~for these two parts of~~ anaconda.

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anaconda is now almost entirely written in Python 2. The graphical front end uses GTK+ 3 via gobject-introspection, and as much of the interface as possible is written using the glade interface builder. The earliest parts of anaconda are in shell for integration with dracut, and there's still a little bit of C thrown in for interfacing with certain libraries.

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Here are some documents if you are planning on working on anaconda. More is in the works:

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* [[Anaconda/Devel/Translation]]

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If you want to work on Anaconda, you should start with the [[Anaconda/SourceOverview|Source Overview]], which contains a high level discussion of the source files and what they do. Then look at the [[Anaconda/Stage2DevelopmentGuide|stage2 development guide]] for information on how to test, debug, and develop anaconda.

Familiarize yourself with the tools that anaconda uses. Check out the following external reference documents:

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* [~~http~~://~~www~~.~~pygtk~~.org/~~docs~~/~~pygtk~~/~~index.html PyGTK module~~ reference]

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* [https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ GTK+ reference]

* [http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html Python tutorial]

* [http://docs.python.org/modindex.html Python module reference]

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Once you're up and running, you should check out [[Anaconda/Features| future work items for anaconda]] to see what we'd like to have done.

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Once you're up and running, you should check out [[Anaconda/Features|future work items for anaconda]] to see what we'd like to have done.

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~~There's also some tips on the [[Anaconda/Building| building anaconda]] page describing how to compile and create a new version of the anaconda package~~.

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~~The~~ [~~http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org~~/anaconda~~/API/ anaconda API reference~~] ~~is an ongoing effort~~ to ~~document~~ the anaconda ~~source code by branch. This is far from complete, but getting better all the time~~.

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There's also some tips on the [[Anaconda/Building|building anaconda]] page describing how to compile and create a new version of the anaconda package.

== Getting the Source ==

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 [[Anaconda]] is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and [[Anaconda/Distros| some other distributions]].
-During installation, a target computer's hardware is identified and configured and the appropriate file systems for the system's architecture are created.  Finally, anaconda allows the user to install the operating system software on the target computer.  anaconda can also upgrade existing installations of earlier versions of the same distribution.  After the installation is complete, you can reboot into your installed system and continue doing customization using [[FirstBoot|  firstboot]] .
+During installation, a target computer's hardware is identified and configured and the appropriate file systems for the system's architecture are created.  Finally, anaconda allows the user to install the operating system software on the target computer.  anaconda can also upgrade existing installations of earlier versions of the same distribution.  After the installation is complete, you can reboot into your installed system and continue doing customization using [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewFirstboot the initial setup program].
 anaconda is a fairly sophisticated installer.  It supports installation from local and remote sources such as CDs and DVDs, images stored on a hard drive, NFS, HTTP, and FTP.  Installation can be scripted with [[Anaconda/Kickstart|  kickstart]]  to provide a fully unattended installation that can be duplicated on scores of machines.  It can also be run over VNC on headless machines.  A variety of advanced storage devices including LVM, RAID, iSCSI, and multipath are supported from the partitioning program.  anaconda provides advanced debugging features such as remote logging, access to the python interactive debugger, and remote saving of exception dumps.
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 For information on how to customize anaconda and trees created with it, please see [[Anaconda/BuildDocProject| BuildDocProject]]  and [[Anaconda/Customization| Customization]] .
 == Mailing Lists ==
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 == Developers' Guide ==
-If you want to work on Anaconda, you should start with the [[Anaconda/SourceOverview| Source Overview]] , which contains a high level discussion of the source files and what they do.  Then look at the [[Anaconda/Stage1DevelopmentGuide|  stage1 development guide]]  and the [[Anaconda/Stage2DevelopmentGuide|  stage2 development guide]]  for information on how to test, debug, and develop for these two parts of anaconda.
+anaconda is now almost entirely written in Python 2.  The graphical front end uses GTK+ 3 via gobject-introspection, and as much of the interface as possible is written using the glade interface builder.  The earliest parts of anaconda are in shell for integration with dracut, and there's still a little bit of C thrown in for interfacing with certain libraries.
 Familiarize yourself with the tools that anaconda uses.  Check out the following external reference documents:
-* [http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/index.html PyGTK module reference]
+* [https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ GTK+ reference]
 * [http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html Python tutorial]
 * [http://docs.python.org/modindex.html Python module reference]
-Once you're up and running, you should check out [[Anaconda/Features|  future work items for anaconda]]  to see what we'd like to have done.
+Once you're up and running, you should check out [[Anaconda/Features|future work items for anaconda]] to see what we'd like to have done.
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-There's also some tips on the [[Anaconda/Building|  building anaconda]]  page describing how to compile and create a new version of the anaconda package.
-The [http://dcantrel.fedorapeople.org/anaconda/API/ anaconda API reference] is an ongoing effort to document the anaconda source code by branch.  This is far from complete, but getting better all the time.
+There's also some tips on the [[Anaconda/Building|building anaconda]] page describing how to compile and create a new version of the anaconda package.
 == Getting the Source ==

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