So is mine ^^
Tomorrow I’ll made some digging in the odroid magazines. If I found something, I’ll report here.
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Hi,
Last night, i found this:
http://odroid.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:c1_ubuntu_minimal
It explains how to build a minimal image of ubuntu for the Odroid C1.
It can be useful I guess.
And I guess this answer this morning, from Memeka, who built an Ubuntu MATE from a minimal image:
http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=8716&p=77113#p76957
More information about the root file system on Odroid C1:
http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=111&t=9800
I guess it can be a very good way to start, especially if we can take away the parts provided by HardKernel.
Altought i think it is a good compagny with great products, their decision to not support Lubuntu futher 14.04 version means we have to get free of them on the software part.
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Hi, Do you have some news about the enabling to armhf package building on your ppa ?
EDIT:
It is seems to be on, the first package was build the 23/02:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mate-dev/+archive/ubuntu/trusty-mate/+builds?build_state=built
But there is only one package, Was it just a test ?
@Bakaniko It just stopped working. No idea why. I’m focusing arm work around 15.04 and the 15.10 since everything is in the official archive 
@Wimpy April is not so far.
Althought it is a good news that the building of arm package is activated. We will be able to work on it when the heat of the 15.04 release went down.
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Just got my Raspberry Pi 2
I have to admit that it is much faster than the previous model (and my expectations of it) and I feel that MATE will run as smoothly on it as a knife through hot butter!
@Wimpy I guess using a Vivid armhf debootstrap with relevant patches should get Ubuntu MATE 15.04 running on it, now that it is based on ARMv7. I will try to implement the same and share my experiences.
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I don’t really know debootstrap, can you explain what is is used for, please ?
It is like pacstrap of archlinux ? I used 2 or 3 times, not knowing what it does (i was following a tutorial)
@Bakaniko Yes, it is somewhat like pacstrap as both are used to bootstrap a base system. debootstrap can also be used to create a rootfs for a machine of a different architecture (armhf for the Raspberry Pi in this case). I have seen pacman being used to do the same on Arch (and Arch based) systems by installing the base to a different directory using the -r argument. I guess pacstrap can also be used to achieve the same(?).
In fact, your post which had a link containing information on building a minimal image of Ubuntu for the Odroid C1 was what gave me the idea to modify it to create an Ubuntu MATE 15.04 image for the Raspberry Pi 2
@Wimpy Will definitely post the image and a how-to once I manage to get it running. I have some digging around to do because the tutorial for Odroid C1 has the relevant boot firmware provided by Hardkernel, which needs to be substituted with a Raspberry Pi compatible one to make it boot. Also, I didn’t like the idea of using root as the default user, which is something I plan to change…
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Hi,
I wake up this morning with that matter in mind. So this morning i will study how things are done on archlinuxarm and ubuntu minimal for the Odroid C1 and maybe make some tries later.
@rohithmadhavan thanks.
@Wimpy shall we made an armf subsection in the development section, with a topic for each product ? What do you think ?
I can make the first topic with the ressources for the Odroid C1, @rohithmadhavan can maybe the same for the raspberry pi 2 and is how to.
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Some ressources (old however):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch/QemuDebootstrap?highlight=(debootstrap)
I managed to get Ubuntu MATE 15.04 running on the Raspberry Pi 2 using a Vivid armhf debootstrap. There are some issues like the sound not working and the reported bugs which affect 15.04 in general but the performance is good and editing documents on libreoffice is a pleasant experience. I have made a new topic for the same and will be updating it with the SD card image soon.
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@Wimpy No need to thank me…
It’s thanks to developers like you who made Ubuntu MATE and this amazing community possible. Looking forward to making more such contributions. We still have a long way to go
I’ll be shortly posting both the how-to and the image as an update to this new topic. Hope to get the minor issues sorted by the end of the day. Regardless, I’ll still post the image today, with subsequent updates which address the issues. Community feedback, after all, is the best way to find and solve problems.
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@Wimpy I created a new topic for the how-to. Link - Bootstrapping Ubuntu MATE for an armhf base
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