You in this lesson you'll
learn how to install Ubuntu.
So the requirements? Well, you need to first download the latest version of ubuntu
LTS from ubuntu.com or one of the in between versions if you prefer.
I'll show you in a bit.
Then you install in a virtual machine or on hardware if you prefer.
The minimal requirements for RAM for Ubuntu are a little bit lower.
That's one gig of RAM and 10 gigs of disk space.
And a second disk will be needed later in class.
So if you want to install Ubuntu, you need to download it.
To do so you go to the products and then you select the Ubuntu Desktop product.
And in the Ubuntu Desktop product there is the option to click Download Ubuntu Desktop.
Now, when you download Ubuntu Desktop, you really need to know what you want to download.
The default version is the long term support version.
Long term support versions are added every two years and they are supported for at least
five years and based on the support contacts that you take, might even be longer.
If that's okay for you.
Just click Download the LTS version and you will be alright.
Now it happens to be that I'm on macOS using apple silicon and that
means that the default 2404 long term support version doesn't work for me.
That's because this default version is offering support for intel and on macOS Apple silicon.
I have an ARM processor and that means that I
need the 2410 version that is supported for ARM.
The easiest way to get there is by googling for
download Ubuntu 24.10 ARM 64 and that will bring you
to cdimage.ubuntu.com where you can find the ARM architecture.
And that's what I'm going to need. So this is what I'm clicking and that
will start downloading. And once it is downloaded I can install in a virtual machine.
So now that I've downloaded Ubuntu, I can start installing it.
To do so in VMware Fusion, I need install from Discord Image and I click Continue and
then either using the use another disk or disk image link or by using the list of
files that I can see here, I can select the image that I want to use.
So here we go. This is the image. So I'm selecting it. Click Continue and then we have the properties of the virtual machine.
So this is using a capacity of 20 gigs for the hard disk and 4 gigs for the memory and 2 CPU
cores. And you know what works perfectly for me? So let's just click Finish and give it a name before we continue.
So the installer has now started, and in the installer I need to click Try or Install Ubuntu.
And this is going to boot up the Ubuntu Live system.
That will take one or two minutes to complete and then we can start installing it.
Ubuntu Desktop by default comes with a live system, and it means that you don't have to install it. You can also
just give it a try. And if you don't like it, you have not changed anything on your computer hard disk.
That's not the mission here. The mission here is to actually install it.
We need to go through a couple of options, including the selection of the language.
Then I don't need specific accessibility options.
You need to select your keyboard layout and what you want to do to connect
to the Internet in my virtual machine. And that's typical for virtual machines. I'm selecting
Use Wired Connection, even if the laptop that I'm using is using a wireless connection.
And then we have the option to either try or install Ubuntu.
If you don't want to install and just give it a try, you select Try Ubuntu. But if
you want to be able to do everything in this course, you rather go for Install Ubuntu.
So let's select that and then go for the interactive installation.
Automated installation is nice, but that's for advanced users, so we don't need that.
Next we have the default selection. And the default selection is okay.
You can see the extended selection is using additional utilities, but you can always install these additional utilities later.
Then I do recommend that you click these two options.
That is install third party software for graphics and WI fi hardware.
That is giving the better drivers for your graphical and network hardware.
And also you might want to download and install support for additional media formats.
If you ever want to play videos or other media content, it's
best to have the largest amount of codecs that is available.
Then you click Next and it's recommended to select Erase Disk and install Ubuntu.
This is a virtual machine, and on the virtual machine you created a file that is going
to be used as disk. So there is nothing wrong with Erase Disk and Install Ubuntu.
If, however, you booted your Windows computer from the installation disk and you see this, well,
there's a risk that you wipe everything on your system, but that doesn't apply here.
Then I need to create an account.
I'm going to use the name Student. It automatically generates a name, and
that is okay. I need to set a password for my user.
It's a weak password, but that's not really important.
Yes, we do want the password to be entered in order to log in.
There's also an option to use Active directory. Let's not use this option, because then you
depend for your login on an external active directory that needs to be present somewhere.
I don't have an active directory, so I'm clicking next and that will continue.
You select your time zone, and after selecting your time zone, you get an overview of all your choices and
then you can click Install and and that will start the installation procedure. This will take a few minutes.
Okay, so now, at least 15 minutes later, the installation is
done, and in order to start using it, click Restart now
and that will reboot into your freshly installed Ubuntu system.
Do notice that you need to press Enter to remove the installation medium.
That's a remainder from the old days when people were still installing Linux from optical disks.
And here we can see that it is actually booting into the freshly installed system.
If ever you want to see what's going on, if you're fast enough, press Escape so that you can
see boot options. And if you're not fast enough, you can see the user account that you just created.
And if you think, hey, that looks like what we've seen in CentOS, that is right.
The CentOS as well as Ubuntu are both using the GNOME graphical desktop interface.
The appearance of the GNOME interface on Ubuntu is a little bit different, and you will learn more about that in the next lesson.