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Add Studio to an Existing Ubuntu Install

Published by ubustu on May 23, 2007 in Install. 38 Comments

Ubuntu Studio 7.10 (Gutsy)

As of the Gutsy release, Ubuntu Studio no longer requires its own repository. This means that all the programs and files you need to install Ubuntu Studio are already available in the official Ubuntu repos! Adding Studio to your existing Ubuntu install is very simple:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-desktop ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-graphics ubuntustudio-video linux-rt

The previous command will install the complete Ubuntu Studio. If you’re aren’t interested in a certain medium, such as video editing, simply remove ubuntustudio-video from the list.

You’ll have to set the Ubuntu Studio theme and login window artwork manually. This can be easily done with the System > Preferences > Appearance and System > Administration > Login Window dialogs :

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Ubuntu Studio 7.04 (Feisty)

The following information is now outdated. Ubuntu Studio no longer requires its own repository. Please use the updated methods above.

If you already have Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed you may not be interested in creating a whole new partition to install Ubuntu Studio. The first thing you’ll want to do is add the Ubuntu Studio repository to your sources list with these two commands :

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

Now that the Ubuntu Studio repository has been added, use Synaptic Package Manager to search for ubuntu studio and download the following packages :

ubuntustudio-audio

ubuntustudio-audio-plugins

ubuntustudio-desktop

ubuntustudio-graphics

ubuntustudio-video

You could also quickly install the Ubuntu Studio packages with a simple apt-get command :

sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins ubuntustudio-desktop ubuntustudio-graphics ubuntustudio-video

Don’t worry about the other ubuntustudio packages. All required packages will be installed automatically thanks to the meta-packages above. Once the install is complete you will need to reboot. Ubuntu Studio has now been integrated into your Feisty system.

If you want to use the Ubuntu Studio theme you will need to select it manually from System > Preferences > Themes. If you just want the Ubuntu Studio theme for your Ubuntu desktop, simply download the ubuntustudio-theme package.

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.

Install Ubuntu Studio without a DVD Burner

Published by ubustu on May 19, 2007 in Install. 13 Comments

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 :

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Install Ubuntu Studio with Official DVD

Published by ubustu on May 16, 2007 in Install. 12 Comments

After you’ve prepared a partition with GParted, you are ready to install Ubuntu Studio. We’ve created a video walkthrough so you can visualize this process before you actually do it yourself. Overall, the install is extremely painless :


If you prefer to see the install process broken up into a multitude of screenshots and text, check out this install guide.

Prepare Partitions with GParted LiveCD

Published by ubustu on May 16, 2007 in Install. 20 Comments

The GParted LiveCD is a bootable user interface which allows you to visually manage and edit your partitions. Partitions allow you to instruct your computer that a 100GB drive is actually two 50GB hard drives, or several smaller drives. With Gparted you can resize, create/format, and delete partitions with a only a few clicks. After booting the LiveCD you’ll be presented with the main Gparted interface :

  1. Select which hard drive you want with this scrollable list
  2. Visually select which partition to edit with this graph
  3. Select a partition from this detailed list
  4. Perform various actions on the selected partition

How to resize an existing partition

If you only have one operating system installed it is likely that your hard drive contains one large partition. In order to install Ubuntu Studio, you’ll need to resize your single partition into two unique partitions.

If you are resizing a Windows partition you will need to defrag your drive several times before booting into GParted. Defragging reorganizes files that are scattered all over the place and neatly places them together at the beginning of the drive. This will allow you to create a partition from any free space which now resides at the tail end of the hard drive.

BACKUP YOUR FILES BEFORE YOU RUN GPARTED. DON’T WORRY. JUST IN CASE.

Linux partitions/filesystems do not need defragging. They do not vomit files all over the place like Windows. Once again for effect : Linux filesystems do not need to be defragmented, ever!

  1. Select the partition you want to modify
  2. Click the Resize/Move button

You can resize by dragging the black arrow on the right :


You can also manually type the size of the new partition into the Free Space Following box. We chose 20 GB, or 20000 MB :

Click Resize to return to the main interface. Take a minute to make sure everything looks right. There should be an ‘unallocated’ partition in the list.

  1. Your resize request has now been added to the queue
  2. Click the Apply button to create your new partition

Once your changes have been applied, you can shutdown the GParted LiveCD and boot into the Ubuntu Studio DVD.

Formatting an unallocated partition during the Ubuntu Studio install

Technically we haven’t created a partition yet. What we have done is free up a chunk of unallocated space. This space isn’t just empty, it doesn’t even exist! This is exaclty what we want. During the Ubuntu Studio install we can either manually select the FREE SPACE, or automatically format the largest continous chunk of free (unallocated) space

With your partitions properly configured you are now ready to install Ubuntu Studio from the official DVD.