Disclaimer

  • Caelestia Live is an alpha!
    While it has been demonstrated to work well, and bug reports at this point are rare, Caelestia Live is still in early development.
  • Caelestia Live is not an official project!
    At least not at the moment. Caelestia Live was created by Evertiro in response to an off-hand comment by another user on Discord. As such, if you have any questions, issues, or feedback, they should be directed to Evertiro!
  • Caelestia Live is not an installer!
    Despite being a fully functional live image, Caelestia Live does not currently contain an installer. It is an Arch-based live image, preconfigured with Hyprland, Caelestia, and enough apps to demonstrate what a fully-built environment based on Caelestia looks like. The "goal" of Caelestia Live was to provide an easy-to-use demo of Caelestia, not simplify the install process - at least not at this point. It makes no changes to your hard drive unless you start playing with GParted or similar.
If you do something dumb with Caelestia Live, neither Evertiro nor anyone working on Caelestia itself is responsible if it wipes your computer, eats your firstborn, or whatever.
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stable/-2026-02-20 06:45

Image Integrity

We provide both b2sum and sha256sum checksums for every image. You can verify the integrity of your downloaded ISO by downloading the b2sums.txt or sha256sums.txt and running the following:

$ b2sum -c b2sums.txt
$ sha256sum -c sha256sums.txt

Signature Verification

Our images are signed with the packager@caelestiashell.com signing key. You can verify the authenticity of our images by following these steps:

# Fetch the key
$ sudo gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 062F3AC2216BA00F

# If the above throws an error, you can explicitly tell it what port to use:
$ sudo gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org:443 --recv-keys 062F3AC2216BA00F

# Display and verify the details of the key:
$ gpg --finger 062F3AC2216BA00F

# Trust the key:
$ sudo gpg --lsign-key 062F3AC2216BA00F

# Verify the image signature:
$ gpg --verify caelestia-live--x86_64.iso.sig caelestia-live--x86_64.iso