This method is now outdated, if not a little excessive. Your best bet is to just install regular ol’ Ubuntu and then add Studio on top of it, as described in this guide.
Although the official install disk requires a DVD burner, it is still possible to install Ubuntu Studio using a CD. To do this you need to download Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu Server is a barebones, command line only version of Ubuntu. For Windows users, it will be kind of like booting into DOS. Download Ubuntu Server, restart your computer, and boot from the CD.
The install process for Ubuntu Server is pretty much the same as Ubuntu Studio. If you haven’t already, watch our video walkthrough of the Ubuntu Studio install. The one exception is a menu that asks you if you would like to pre-install a DNS or LAMP server. Do not install either :
Once the installation is complete and you have rebooted into your new Ubuntu Server install, you’ll be asked to login at the command line prompt. After you’ve logged in enter these two commands to add the Ubuntu Studio repository, enable it, and update your repository list :
sudo su -c ’echo deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main >> /etc/apt/sources.list’
wget -q http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
Be sure to double check each line before hitting enter. Since you’ll probably need to write these two lines down, below are the two commands with line breaks where the spaces should be :
sudo
su
-c
‘echo
deb
http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio
feisty
main
>>
/etc/apt/sources.list’
wget
-q
http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg
-O- (This is the capital letter, O)
|
sudo
apt-key
add
-
&&
sudo
apt-get
update
After you have added the repoistory, download the Ubuntu Studo desktop package by typing :
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-desktop ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-graphics ubuntustudio-video
Ubuntu Studio will now be downloaded onto your system. For obvious reasons, this step could take quite some time depending on your internet connection. Read a book or watch TV but check back every 20 minutes or so. Alternatively, you could also install just the ubuntustudio-desktop package, boot into the desktop, and then download the other Ubuntu Studio packages from Synaptic Package Manager.
If you already have Ubuntu installed, or if you’d rather install Ubuntu and then incorporate Ubuntu Studio on top of it, be sure to read our guide on adding Ubuntu Studio to an existing Ubuntu install.
One last instruction and then we are done! If you want to get the most speed and performance out of your audio setup, be sure to issue this final command :
sudo su -c ‘echo @audio - rtprio 99 >> /etc/security/limits.conf’
Here we have simply added the line @audio - rtprio 99 to the end of the file limits.conf. This configuration is added by default when installing from the Ubuntu Studio DVD.
As i have been told in the below thread; when installing from anything else than the offical DVD, you should add this command from terminal:
sudo su -c ‘echo @audio - rtprio 99 >> /etc/security/limits.conf’
Does that also apply for the ubuntu server way?
/Carsten
My ubuntuforums thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=447496
Carsten, good call. This is a very useful command for gaining greater audio performance and speed. It is listed in the limits.conf of a clean Ubuntu Studio install! Thanks for the reminder. We’ll add it to the guide.
Nice.
But why, oh why, not install it via Ubuntu *Desktop* CD? Nice graphics on a true usable live cd, you can install the system with your mouse, and in the way you just have to add ubuntustudio repository and “sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-*”. This way ubuntustudio-desktop will replace ubuntu-desktop and voilà!
btw, imho ubuntu studio should come with graphical live cd, just like ubuntu, /even if it’s not possible to capture ou edit something in kino or ardour/. It’d be much better, again imho.
Anyway, *great* work btw.
Hoping that ubuntustudio-gutsy come with Cinelerra (cause it is related to Kino just like Ardour is to Audacity),
Nighto
@Carsten,
probably. i didn’t checked, but if it wasn’t needed, it wouldn’t hurt to type it again.
Nighto, you absolutely can install Ubuntu first and then add Ubuntu Studio afterwards. That’s actually the next (and final, phew) install guide we’re gonna do… How to add Ubuntu Studio to an existing Ubuntu install (ittl be up tonight acually)
The reason we chose Ubuntu Server (other than the fact that its what the developers tell people to use in the chatroom when this paritcular questions arises) is because its the only way to install JUST Ubuntu Studio without a DVD burner…
In order to fit more multimedia programs into the Ubuntu Studio DVD, they trimmed back some of the default base install of regular Ubuntu…. we like to think of Ubuntu Studio as Ubuntu with more multimedia and less grandma
But yes, youre right, you could use the Ubuntu Feisty as well as the command line method!
Thanks for reading and helping out! Ubuntu is 100% community!
What if I want an other desktop manger like xfce or openbox,
do I need the ubuntustudio-desktop for the low latency kernel , or can I pass that step?
I like the ubuntu desktop very mutch and I have it installed on my desktop computer but I want it on my laptop also an I want a very small installation on it.
I don’t want all the audio programs either but only the recording programs with their plugins . Ardour 2 rocks!!
Moos
Hi! Thanks for the excellent guide! I’ve installed Ubuntu Server now, and the first commandline went fine. When I try this line: wget -q http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
I get an error, it says something like http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 is not a bzip file…
What’s the problem? I’m kinda newbie to linux, but with some experience…
Thanks!
Another point that might be worth mentioning, is if you plan to “easily” install the nvidia drivers using automatix or some other automated program, change /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot the number 2 options
default 2
This will then load the low latency kernel instead of server to stop ubuntu not loading the nvidia driver once installed… at least thats what i had to do.
For Gutsy users that want Studio without a DVD, no need to do the first few steps. Instead just install the packages, and perform the performance update.
I have an old Dell laptop without a DVD drive, and updating to Gutsy required a fresh install. Then I found out the sources list for Gutsy on ubuntustudio.org were non-existant. After comparing the sources file for ubuntustudio on my other pc, I found there were no additional sources required compared to regular Gutsy, so naturally running the packages was all that was needed.
Good Luck
Took me a bit to realize this, but the 2nd command: “wget -q http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-ke…” is no longer needed (and will not work). Hopefully this saves some wasted time for the next newbie…
I just used the plextools gigarecord feature to overburn a cd with the iso image. If you use a plextor drive this may be an option.
After installing ubuntu server 7.10, it doesn’t recognize my d-link wda-2330 wireless card, so I can’t update to studio. Do you know how to configure my wireless card from ubuntu server 7.10? Thanks, sorry I’m a new linux user.
Thanks in advance
I got the madwifi drivers working but the commands aren’t working… First command doesn’t seem to give a response and the second command says: “no valid openPGP data found” and the third can’t find the packages.