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#1

Installation / Calamares Manual Partitioning ...

Last post by guigirl - May 16, 2026, 11:50:08 AM

Hello. Does installation with Calamares using **Manual** Partitioning, actually work, pls?

Encrypted *Auto*-installation [in a different, single-boot single-SSD, pc] works fine, but so far i have a 100% failure rate [12+ attempts] when i do manual partitioning in Calamares on my main pc. This error always results [once the installer is ~ >70% complete, ie, what i mean is that this failure does not happen immediately, but instead several minutes elapse during which all seems to be proceeding well]:
```
The package manager could not make changes to the installed system. The command <pre>apt-get --purge -q -y remove sparky-backup-* live-* calamares</pre> returned error code 100.
```

Manual partitioning is essential for this installation, as it is an existing triple-boot [one older distro now removed to make room for this new installation] with ArchLinux controlling the bootloader, & with three SSDs in it... some of whose partitions i need Sparky to mount.

I have tried various combos of partition arrangements, & varied the destination also for the new system to go, but all attempts lead to the same failure message. I have tried no boot partition, my existing Arch boot partition, a new 300MiB boot-efi partition specially for this installation... i have tried assigning a bootloader & not assigning one [using instead Arch's one]... all attempts fail with the identical error. I have not tried not encrypting the putative Sparky partition, because even if that were to work, it would be useless... i require it encrypted.

The ISO is `sparkylinux-2026.03-x86_64-kde.iso`. It passes its hashsum check. I have tried it on two different USB sticks.

Does anyone have any advice pls?

#2

Hardware / No wi-fi on SparkyLinux 8.3

Last post by paul74 - May 14, 2026, 05:52:45 PM

Hello,

Just installed Sparky 8.3 on a HP Pavilion dv7 machine.
Installation ran fine.

But wifi is not working.
Wi-fi equipment is RT5390

message is "wifi not working, no driver found"

Il try to download firmware from internet but I got "page not found" as, I guess, driver is old and not available anymore.

Thanks in advance for your help.

#3

General discussion / Question about Sparky KDE ...

Last post by Omnimaxus - April 26, 2026, 08:45:09 PM

Hi to everyone. I tried out the live ISO of SparkyLinux 9 KDE (rolling). There were no desktop animations whatsoever. Is this because I was in the live ISO, or because it wasn't installed yet? Do the animations come back as expected following installation? 0r is this the actual default? Thanks.

[inxi -Na]

#4

Hardware / Re: No WiFi on SparkyLinux 8.2

Last post by AxL - April 24, 2026, 10:28:44 PM

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Any advise on how to fix this?

  You can use inxi -Na, to find out the driver used by the wifi, you intend to use.

As you can see in the attached image:

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Thank you.

You're welcome !!







Cheers !!

#5

Newbie questions / Re: updates

Last post by AxL - April 24, 2026, 10:08:41 PM

I haven't received any updates for two weeks, has anything changed is there something I should do?

I don't know what your problem is. And what version of SparkyLinux are you using, since you don't say.
I can't tell you anything about the stable version, because I don't use it.


But in the 'rolling' (aka 'testing') version, the updates work correctly. 
 As you can see in this image:












Cheers !! 

#6

Newbie questions / updates

Last post by dougtheslug - April 23, 2026, 11:51:22 AM

I haven't received any updates for two weeks, has anything changed is there something I should do?

#7

Deutsch / Re: KDE Plasma - Theme install...

Last post by pavroo - April 09, 2026, 01:08:02 PM

There is still a problem with KDE themes on testing, sorry.

#8

Deutsch / KDE Plasma - Theme installiere...

Last post by HerrRossi - April 09, 2026, 07:54:37 AM

Hallöchen,
Sparky Linux mit KDE Plasma ist wirklich eine tolle Distribution, aber ich bekomme es nicht hin, auch  nur ein anderes globales Theme zu installieren - es kommt ständig die Meldung, dass Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllt sind...?
Wie installiert ihr hier ein Theme ?

#9

Applications / Re: Gdebi installer not workin...

Last post by pavroo - March 27, 2026, 12:34:49 AM

yes, it happens sometimes.
why didn't try to install chrome via APTus?

#10

Sparky applications / Re: Some AppCenter icons run o...

Last post by pavroo - March 26, 2026, 06:08:58 PM

fixed, thanks