Cubic will not build an image from mini.iso.
Ok… the new bionic-desktop-current image is in for Jan. 11th/2018 so I will build another image.
Regards…
Building off the mini.iso is somewhat like building from scratch, while remastering the live bionic iso is just remastering, which is what cubic does. Then, there is no 18.04 mini.iso yet.
If you would use the Jan. 11th/2018 default Ubuntu (or any later ones) to build the Unity iso, then, you should first get rid of the DE, clean the it from any residual stuff and then add the unity ppa to build the iso/installation.
I am not using the ppa. I am using the meta now. ubuntu-unity-desktop.
as mac3man reported . there are currently not many issues
Did you not read @khurshid-alam 's post -?
Meta_on_Universe
Regards…
testing new image build from Jan. 11/18 … there still seems to be BIOS Intel Firmware bug . daily/current now jan. 12/18 so could try that.
edit:
Special Note: After hard install the BIOS fimware bug has gone. Only seems to happen with live session. Previous ubuntu-touch issue is also resolved. So I am assuming the alert is a possible f/p.
I will put up new build.
Regards…
Even with the meta-package, it’d be better to install without any earlier DE in the Ubuntu (derivative) iso downloaded. That is, as there is no 18.04 mini.iso available. You can do all that through Cubic in a chroot environment. Personally, I’d choose to do that manually, to see what’s happening, rather than depending on a GUI app.
The idea, (though old, but still good) can be found here. (1) MakeALiveCD/DVD/BootableFlashFromHarddiskInstall - Community Help Wiki (You have to do a bit of re-arranging.) From an already installed distro.
(2) https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=107350 - From the live iso. You can find it also somewhere in Ubuntu wiki and in Ubuntu Forums.
From an installed system, you can use (1) to create the squashfs file, and (2) create the live iso. Additionally, you have to isohybrid the iso for usb sticks.
(All this thanks to fragadelic!)
I have added nemo from @mc3man’s https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/bionic-prop to my Bionic Unity and had been using it for quite a while without a hitch. I have also uninstalled Nautilus immediately. @mc3man’s Nemo is doing pretty well!
Nemo’s side pane is not that pretty, but useful than Nautilus. Sometimes, it is better to hold on to old stuff, then developing for the sake of developing.
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Cubic provides me with several options. I want to continue to run the meta on the daily/currents without tampering or removing other components. ubuntu-desktop, gdm3 and gnome-shell are all that need to be removed for now. These are tests for stability and they are working just well. We will wait for the 18.04 mini.
Nemo is for 18.10 spin but all are welcome to install the PPA or try the ISO which is up on the server. We will stick with nautilus this cycle unless there is a show stopper.
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Well, maybe others can also try those links I gave here and try to create isos, with or without Nemo. They can do that without tampering the live boot and such stuff.
Cubic is good, but won’t let those, who want to create isos, learn how to do that.
This had already been adressed several days ago.
This is a topic not up for debate or discussion in this thread. mac3man had already posted in another thread about nemo and we have been using an active .iso which is still in the server archives. If you would like to discuss other methods of building iso for this cycle then please use this thread.
My laptop freezes when I shutdown or restart, as in the screen freezes and the keyboard caps lock doesn’t work
running sudo poweroff in ttyl1 gave me the same result, I guess it’s a upstream Ubuntu issue but I didn’t have it before the unity iso
Can you update ubuntu-unity.iso?
Do followings:
- Make sure mesa is on latest version. Our current iso contains a version which broke unity.
- Add the Ubuntu-Unity-18.04-Testing ppa (same old ppa).
- Installs patched version of vino and unity-greter from the ppa. Once Ubuntu uploaded those in universe, I will remove those from ppa.
- Gnome removed a key from vino, and u-c-c crashed. I made a patch for vino. If they don’t accept the distro patch we again need to disable sharing panel from u-c-c.
We also need to decide about unity-settings. We want it on universe. See bug: Bug #1735998 “[Needs-Packaging]Decouple unity related settings a...” : Bugs : ubuntu-settings package : Ubuntu
But regardless of the status we could still push unity-settings to universe? No?
Latest version of gdebi doesn’t work on bionic. Try to install a deb with gdebi. Does it work? Running gdebi-gtk app.deb in terminal gives me error
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Can anyone confirm ?
please give me example of example.deb package I can test further.
Uh… so is the meta still:
ubuntu-unity-desktop