Ubuntu 24.04 6.12.y for the uConsole and DevTerm

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You do understand that Rex has a real job and dose this in his spare time. We are very lucky to have him contributing in this community and should be considerate of his time by not being to demanding. Just my opinion.

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Hi, I have tried your Ubuntu distro on uConsolole with CM5. Itā€™s working, but every application, even terminal, took like a minute to open. I have tried two different SD cards, and both behave the same. It is a stock image, as I havenā€™t updated it since I didnā€™t let it connect to Wi-Fi. It is not happening on Bookworm distro, where everything is fast. Can someone help me resolve this issue? Thanks.

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Gnome is the culprit, itā€™s slow. You could switch to kde or xfce and get a better experience with Ubuntu.

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HEY REX PLEASE DO BUILDS FOR DISTRIBUTIVES ā€œZorin OSā€ AND ā€œPOP! OS " AND " Elementary OSā€ AND ā€œUbuntu Budgieā€ THEY ARE UBUNTU BASED IT SHOULD BE SIMPLE FOR YOU IF YOU WILL HAVE ISSUES YOU CAN CHECK THEIR INSTALLATION DOCUMENTATION WHEN IT WILL BE READY?

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Hey there @Rex can you also make builds Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu, Mate, and Kubuntu and also arch and Linux mint and gentoo and later on trixie for uconsole and devterm but take your time I an not asking you to rush and do it whenever you want.

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gentoo with build is arch

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a prebuilt arch image already kinda goes against the distro principles, but a gentoo one is even funnier, personally Iā€™m waiting for hannah montana linux

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You know you can use Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, and Kubuntu .

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Should there also be night mode.

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UPDATE IN OP!

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Will Ubuntu 25.10 be ported?

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I didnā€™t plan on it, I was going to do 26.04 when it comes out.

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Hello,

thank you Rex for your port.

Is there any way to upgrade the kernel?

I tried it many times but flash-kernel fails, even when I manually install the latest 3.109 version.

Is there a ā€œmanualā€ way which does not break packages?

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You can download the kernel package from my repo and then unpackage it and manually install the kernel.

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Will there be an automated method?

When I unmark the clockworkpi-kernel and the flash-kernel package, the kernel gets installed successfully, but flash-kernel fails.

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what do you mean exactly?

to download debian/pool/main/c/clockworkpi-kernel/clockworkpi-kernel_6.12.51-v8-16k+_arm64.deb and then just dpkg -i clockworkpi-kernel_6.12.51-v8-16k+_arm64.deb or is there more to it?

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The kernel package is designed for vanilla Debian, Ubuntu requires some changes for a package install to work.

You just need to unpackage the deb, like a zip then manually install the kernel files by putting the files where the need to be from the folders file structure. Then just update your initramfa.

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I got it to work with ā€œnormalā€ install. The problem seems to be that flash kernel does not find the dtb file to complete installation.

What I did was:

  • download debian/pool/main/c/clockworkpi-kernel/clockworkpi-kernel_6.12.51-v8-16k+_arm64.deb
  • install the package:
    • sudo dpkg -i clockworkpi-kernel_6.12.51-v8-16k+_arm64.deb
      • get errors from flash kernel regarding dtbs missing
  • copy dtb file manually:
    • sudo cp /boot/dtbs/6.12.51-v8-16k+/bcm2712-rpi-cm5l-cm5io.dtb /etc/flash-kernel/dtbs/
  • invoke flash-kernel manually:
    • sudo flash-kernel
      • getting no errors
  • update initramfs:
    • sudo update-initramfs -u
  • update initramfs in /boot/firmware for LUKS
    • sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/firmware/initramfs8 6.12.51-v8-16k+
      • should be not necessary, if you are not using full disk (SD card) encryption
  • reboot
    • sudo reboot

It is now running the newest kernel fine and dpkg/apt is aware of the installed package, which is nice.

I think the automated install can succeed, if the dtb files where reachable for flash kernel, which it currently is not.

Edit: I also could unmark flash-kernel (sudo apt-mark unhold flash-kernel) and update it to the latest version, without getting errors. I assume, now that the dtb is reachable and I know what to do when it is not, that automatic kernel updates are now possible. I will check/experience that with your next kernel release :smiley: The kernel itself is also ā€œunholdedā€ due to the dpkg install.

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just sent you a dm for some testing if youā€™re willing.

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Iā€™ve repackaged the kernel and it will now install successfully on Ubuntu. Iā€™ve uploaded a fixed image. To start receiving kernel updates on your existing Ubuntu install simply sudo apt-mark unhold clockworkpi-kernel flash-kernel then update and upgrade normally.

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