Template:UbuntuJammyDesktop-Common

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1 Account & Password

Regular Account:
    User Name: pi
    Password: pi

Root:
    User Name: root
    Password: fa

2 View IP address

Since the hostname is FriendlyElec.lan by default, you can use the ping command to get the IP address:

ping FriendlyElec.lan

3 Connect to Ubuntu via SSH

ssh pi@FriendlyElec.lan

The default password is: pi

4 Update Software Packages

$ sudo apt-get update

5 Install Ubuntu software center

$ sudo apt-get install snapd
$ sudo snap install snap-store

6 Install the kernel-header package

sudo dpkg -i /opt/linux-headers-*.deb

try to compile a kernel module:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install git gcc make bc
git clone https://github.com/RinCat/RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver.git
cd RTL88x2BU-Linux-Driver
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 88x2bu

7 Change time zone

7.1 Check the current time zone

timedatectl

7.2 List all available time zones

timedatectl list-timezones

7.3 Set the time zone (e.g. Shanghai)

sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/Shanghai

8 Change startup LOGO and Wallpaper

Replace the following two files in the kernel source code directory and recompile the kernel:
kernel/logo.bmp
kernel/logo_kernel.bmp
Or use the script to operate, as shown below:

  • Download scripts:
git clone https://github.com/friendlyarm/sd-fuse_rk3399.git -b kernel-4.19
cd sd-fuse_rk3399
  • Compile kernel and repackage firmware
convert files/logo.jpg -type truecolor /tmp/logo.bmp
convert files/logo.jpg -type truecolor /tmp/logo_kernel.bmp
LOGO=/tmp/logo.bmp KERNEL_LOGO=/tmp/logo_kernel.bmp ./build-kernel.sh ubuntu-jammy-desktop-arm64
./mk-emmc-image.sh ubuntu-jammy-desktop-arm64

9 Soft Factory Reset

Execute the following command in a terminal:

sudo firstboot && sudo reboot

10 Start the program automatically at startup(For example Firefox)

Put the desktop file in the ~/.config/autostart/ directory, for example:

mkdir ~/.config/autostart/
cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

11 Disable auto-mounting

sudo systemctl mask udisks2
sudo reboot

12 Setup Chinese language and Input method

12.1 Setup Chinese language

Enter the following command and select 'zh_CN.UTF-8':

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Add environment variables to .bashrc:

echo "export LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export LANGUAGE=zh_CN.UTF-8" >> ~/.bashrc

Reboot device:

sudo reboot

13 Video playback with hardware decoding

13.1 GUI

  • Locate the video file in the file browser, right click and select "Play with mpv media player"
  • Using Kodi player
  • Using Chromium web browser, you can play videos on the web with hardware decoding (limited to the video formats supported by the CPU)

13.2 Command line

  • Play local video file
export DISPLAY=:0.0
mpv --fs /home/pi/Videos/demo.mp4
  • Play web-video
export DISPLAY=:0.0
mpv --fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-nYDmC1Dk

14 How to Install Plex Media Server

Run the following command to install:

echo deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list
curl https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install plexmediaserver

After successful installation, enable Plex (starts automatically at system startup):

sudo systemctl enable plexmediaserver
sudo systemctl start plexmediaserver
sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver

After installation, login to Plex server by entering the following address in your computer browser: http://IPAddress:32400/web/

15 Install Docker Engine

15.1 Install Docker Engine

sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg lsb-release
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

Let’s verify:

sudo docker info

15.2 Run Docker as a non-root user

sudo groupadd docker
sudo gpasswd -a ${USER} docker
sudo systemctl restart docker
sudo chmod a+rw /var/run/docker.sock

Let’s verify:

docker images

15.3 Testing Docker: Installing Nextcloud with docker

mkdir ~/nextcloud -p
docker run -d -p 8888:80  --name nextcloud  -v ~/nextcloud/:/var/www/html/ --restart=always --privileged=true  arm64v8/nextcloud

After installation, visit: http://Device-IP-Address:8888 on your computer browser to view the nextcloud web page.