Will there be a new Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi 5?

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Hi all, When have a version of ubuntu mate for raspberry pi 5? thanks you!

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Hi, @djblind and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community!

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You should be able to use the Raspberry Pi 4 version on the Pi 5.

I just built the latest Armbian for Raspberry Pi 4 and it works fine on the Pi 5.

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Hi, @Kriston and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community!

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My bad, I just tested Ubuntu-Mate Raspberry Pi 4 image on my Pi 5 and it doesn't work. The bootloader says it has no support for Raspberry Pi 5.

Armbian might be your best bet at this point until Ubuntu-Mate.org releases a Pi 5 image.

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I'm unaware of any work towards a Raspberry Pi 5 release of Ubuntu MATE at this time. Another user was able to get Ubuntu MATE's image working with a Pi 5, if you have Pi 4 hardware:

Alternately, you could use the regular Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Raspberry Pi image, and then install ubuntu-mate-desktop on top:

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Being 22.04 is EOL in April 2025. Looks like we have to find another distro/desktop. I like Ubuntu Mate defaults but have not found a good way of getting to the same desktop using the RPi Image Ubuntu server image. But I am currently running 24.04.2 & the only real problem is the display flickering.

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This does work but Firefox has issues. The screen outline comes up but it does not populate. Have not tried anything else yet.

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A long shot might be to look at Martin Wimpress' script for building a Pi image and adapt it to 24.04 and Pi 5 - that could be a lot of work, however.

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Maybe it is better for them to make it clear that they are no longer interested in supporting Raspberry Pi version of the Ubuntu Mate.

Ofcourse deep down i still hoping for them to continue supporting Raspberry Pi as for me Ubuntu Mate in the best and most familiar desktop variant of Ubuntu Linux

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I recently asked the project leader directly and got confirmation that it's unlikely we'll see a new Ubuntu MATE image. They do take a lot of work. The good news is that Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi is a first class release target while he was working for Canonical.

The main website has been updated to reflect this.

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