elementary/installer

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Installer front-end for Linux-based OSes

Stars: 182
Forks: 53
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 88
Avg merge: 2d 16h
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Vala
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 10, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 15, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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88 open issues indexed

Allow installer to use different backends Open

Priority: Wishlist

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#941 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Invert VM warning for M series Macs Open

Needs Design Priority: Wishlist

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

elementary/installer#920 · Opened Jan 2, 2026
Stuck while installing on an older iMac Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

elementary/installer#905 · Opened Aug 5, 2025
Installation doesn't start Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

elementary/installer#900 · Opened Aug 2, 2025
After screen reader shortcut is read, begin cycling audio devices Open

Needs Design Priority: Wishlist

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#888 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Device recommendation grid is not screen reader accessible Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#886 · Opened Jul 6, 2025
Disable dim, blanking, & sleep during install Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#882 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Failure to install on VM - Installer loops Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#878 · 1 comment · Opened May 18, 2025
Add support for netinstall Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

elementary/installer#871 · Opened Mar 15, 2025
Installer stuck in a loop while trying to add CD-ROM partition to apt sources Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#870 · Opened Mar 15, 2025
elementary OS 8 install error: error installing packages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#868 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2025
setup sideloading with existing OS versions fails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#869 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 28, 2024
Expected keyboard layout not set when test box becomes available Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#855 · Opened Nov 30, 2024
Typing accented characters in the keyboard layout test box produces unexpected input Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#853 · Opened Nov 30, 2024
Installer fails when creating manual partitions with gparted Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#852 · Opened Nov 26, 2024
Proposal: Display Greek Language/Locale Option as 'Greek' Instead of ISO 639-1 Name Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

elementary/installer#851 · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Laptop unable to boot installed OS after trying out OS 8.0 (in try/demo mode) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

elementary/installer#849 · Opened Oct 31, 2024
remove message to keep swap partition on advanced/custom installation Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

elementary/installer#838 · Opened Oct 16, 2024
Canadian French keyboard is offered after selecting Canadian English Open

i18n Priority: Low Status: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

elementary/installer#828 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 6, 2024
Warn if installing to a small root partition Open

Needs Design

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

elementary/installer#817 · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Installer fails if no /boot/efi set, of a minimum size and above, with custom install Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

elementary/installer#807 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Thinkpad X series: Apply fix for i915 graphics driver Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#805 · Opened Sep 16, 2024
Incorrect order of language selection during ElementaryOS installation. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

elementary/installer#797 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
Unable to boot elementary OS on Intel Meteor Lake systems after install Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#788 · Opened Jul 14, 2024
Elementary goes to tty1 after installation via USB Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#784 · Opened Jun 6, 2024
`Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#757 · Opened Mar 26, 2024
Elementary 7 installer fails always in customized install Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

elementary/installer#756 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2024
Install org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia when installing proprietary drivers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#729 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 29, 2023
Cannot select "English (Australian)" keyboard layout during install Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#710 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2023
installation fails due to missing fat32 support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#705 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2023
Custom partitionioning "Decrypt" does not work Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

elementary/installer#703 · 6 comments · Opened May 3, 2023
Installer doesn't show partitions on MacBook Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

elementary/installer#702 · 28 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 12, 2023
Show partitioning warnings more obviously Open

Needs Design Status: Confirmed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

elementary/installer#687 · Opened Feb 8, 2023
OS7 (stable) custom partitioning: Several partitions had the same color. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

elementary/installer#685 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 7, 2023
Custom Partitioning: Erase and install button label is ambiguous Open

Needs Design

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

elementary/installer#684 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 7, 2023
Make partition names more descriptive. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

elementary/installer#682 · Opened Feb 6, 2023
Unable to install elementaryOS on Lenovo ThinkPad T430u - Blank screen on boot Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

elementary/installer#672 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 5, 2022
missing bootia32 after install Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#650 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2022
Can't choose the partitions i want to install OS into Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

elementary/installer#730 · Opened May 18, 2022
Installation fails hci0 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#647 · Opened Apr 10, 2022
Partitions not showing up or i cant see partitions list on installer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

elementary/installer#641 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2022
Unable to complete the installation with non Latin keyboard layout Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#636 · Opened Dec 29, 2021
Support encryption with custom partitioning Open

Needs Design Priority: Wishlist

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#619 · 7 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Sep 21, 2021
Custom install option cannot procceed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#618 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 5, 2021
No partitions shown after getting current configuration Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#746 · Opened Aug 29, 2021
Please to add search box to language list page Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

elementary/installer#616 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2021
ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#602 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2021
Support RAID devices Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#598 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2021
elementaryOS 6.0 installer log jittering Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

elementary/installer#596 · Opened Aug 13, 2021
no option to specify where to install boot record Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

elementary/installer#597 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 13, 2021

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