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==={{Anchor|SYSTEM-INSTALLER}}System installer===
A ''system installer'' is the software that is used to set up and install an operating system onto a device.

[[Windows Setup]] is the system installer of Microsoft Windows.

Examples of Linux system installers:

* [[Anaconda (installer)|Anaconda]]: used by [[CentOS]], [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]]
* [[Calamares (software)|Calamares]]: used by multiple Linux distributions (incl. some Ubuntu flavors, Debian, and derivates)
* [[Debian-Installer]] ("D-I"): classic [[Debian]] installer (textual and graphical<ref>[https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI Debian Wiki: Debian Installer GUI]</ref> interfaces)
* [https://github.com/canonical/subiquity Subiquity] Ubuntu Server installer
* [[Ubiquity (software)|Ubiquity]]: [[Ubuntu]] Desktop installer (until 22.10)
* [https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer Ubuntu Desktop Installer]: current [[Ubuntu]] Desktop installer (starting 23.04)
* [[YaST]] for [[SUSE S.A.|SUSE]]-based projects

Another example is found in the [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]] operating system, which uses a utility called [[Haiku Applications#Installer|Haiku Installer]] to install itself onto a device after booting from a [[live CD]] or [[live USB]].