How to Install Ubuntu on Transformer Prime!

zedomax · Jan 20, 2012

For those of you who want to install Ubuntu on your rooted Transformer Prime, here's a video tutorial:

Download ubuntu.zip

Also, step by step instructions at my blog with pics at AndroLinux.com:
How to Install Ubuntu on Rooted Transformer Prime! | Android+Linux=AndroLinux

David522d · Jan 20, 2012

We need windows8
Or any versions of windows

adampdx · Jan 20, 2012

David522d said:
We need windows8
Or any versions of windows

Haha, really?

Thanks for the Ubuntu!

SteveG12543 · Jan 20, 2012

zedomax said:
For those of you who want to install Android on your rooted Transformer Prime

We already have Android on it

needs to say Ubuntu lol.

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akstyle450 · Jan 20, 2012

Ahh damn I was gonna ask if someone was gonna do this too. Until I updated without thinking and lost root :| guess ill have to wait for a new root thing then get this!

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zedomax · Jan 20, 2012

SteveG12543 said:
We already have Android on it needs to say Ubuntu lol.

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Oops, thanks, fixed!

SteveG12543 · Jan 20, 2012

zedomax said:
Oops, thanks, fixed!

No prob. I'd like to give this a try, I'll look into it once I get home from the movies.

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Striatum_bdr · Jan 20, 2012

Works fine except for installing packages, ubuntu version is old and no more mantained, and tried an upgrade procedure with update-manager -d and didn't work.

duclet · Jan 20, 2012

Yay, exactly what I have been waiting for. But for the life of me, I can't seem to download the file. Can you upload it to multiupload.com or something?

geinome · Jan 20, 2012

Will be testing this when i get home! What version of ubuntu is it running? Might even be able to use it for completely replacing my laptop. Need something i can program on, and this might be the ticket!

hairdewx · Jan 20, 2012

David522d said:
We need windows8
Or any versions of windows

It's gonna be very tough to get the ARM version of Windows 8 as MS is going the secure UEFI route...

Striatum_bdr · Jan 20, 2012

Chroot with a Windows system?....

hairdewx · Jan 20, 2012

geinome said:
Will be testing this when i get home! What version of ubuntu is it running? Might even be able to use it for completely replacing my laptop. Need something i can program on, and this might be the ticket!

I hope Google will make an Android SDK that can run on Android now that hardware is getting better.

gflare · Jan 20, 2012

hairdewx said:
I hope Google will make an Android SDK that can run on Android now that hardware is getting better.

That may be the best idea for a Nexus tablet announcement I've ever heard. Announcing the first official Google Nexus Tablet, typically great specs, with a great dock/keyboard, and the announcement of an android app Android SDK.

This, plus some really nice plug & play style USB port usage would make for a killer announcement.

-viperboy- · Jan 20, 2012

I would recommend VNC Viewer, it is $10 but it works much much better than android-vnc-viewer. About 2-3 times smoother than in the videos.

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zedomax · Jan 21, 2012

-viperboy- said:
I would recommend VNC Viewer, it is $10 but it works much much better than android-vnc-viewer. About 2-3 times smoother than in the videos.

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will definitely try that tomorrow thx viperboy!

-viperboy- · Jan 21, 2012

zedomax said:
will definitely try that tomorrow thx viperboy!

No problem

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yolkah · Jan 21, 2012

Thanks for the awesome guide. Got ubuntu nstalled and running without any issues but how do I access my files that is residing on my Android partition/SD card from within ubuntu ? Thanks

Smasher816 · Jan 21, 2012

What does it take to get a version of eclipse compiled for arm?
Right now it errors saying "bash: ./eclipse: cannot execute binary file" (Google says that means you have the wrong version. ex 64 on 32 machine).

YoMarK · Jan 21, 2012

yolkah said:
Thanks for the awesome guide. Got ubuntu nstalled and running without any issues but how do I access my files that is residing on my Android partition/SD card from within ubuntu ? Thanks

An ftp server running on android should work fine. There are several in the Market.

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