[SOLVED] Is this the file I want for an ISO for a clean install of Xubuntu 18.04LTS?

Gregg Bell · 02-21-2019, 12:58 PM

(see screenshot) And if not, which file do I want? Thanks.

273 · 02-21-2019, 01:07 PM

That looks like a Bittorrent file for what you want. If you want the .iso dirrectly, likely there's a mirror?

Gregg Bell · 02-21-2019, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273

That looks like a Bittorrent file for what you want. If you want the .iso dirrectly, likely there's a mirror?

Thanks 273. Yeah, I need a mirror. Now the question is which one of these is going to work for a 64 bit computer? Here's a list of the mirrors for the United States. https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubunt...18.04/release/ I'm assuming I'd get one of the three highlighted. Would the 18.04.2 be the stablest, most bug-free choice?

frankbell · 02-21-2019, 08:02 PM

Any one of them, but, if were me, I'd select the newest one.

ondoho · 02-22-2019, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Would the 18.04.2 be the stablest, most bug-free choice?

in this situation, yes.
take this one: https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubunt...ktop-amd64.iso

rokytnji · 02-22-2019, 10:48 AM

Code:

wget -c https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releases/18.04/release/MD5SUMS

Code:

wget-c https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releases/18.04/release/xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso

md5sum check the downloaded iso in your current Ubuntu install.
Check it against the text file you downloaded.
Then turn and burn and off to the races.

Everything the above command downloaded will sitting in /home/your user name.
No special command for md5sum since terminal opens in that directory anyways.

1st 2 letters on iso typed in terminal then hit tab key when doing the md5sum check to make everything auto complete. Hit enter to get the md5sum after that.

rokytnji · 02-22-2019, 10:52 AM

If not trusting that site md5sum text file or isos
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/re...18.04/release/

then go to the source luke.

wget works on their download urls also.

rokytnji · 02-22-2019, 11:51 AM

Personal example from me today showing antiX linux being downloaded. I have to apply a xdelta patch latter and do some team testing.

Code:

harry@shop1:/media/_data/Downloads
$ wget -c http://iso.linuxquestions.org/download/737/10553/http/downloads.sourceforge.net/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso
--2019-02-22 11:43:31--  http://iso.linuxquestions.org/download/737/10553/http/downloads.sourceforge.net/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso
Resolving iso.linuxquestions.org (iso.linuxquestions.org)... 107.154.155.211
Connecting to iso.linuxquestions.org (iso.linuxquestions.org)|107.154.155.211|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/antix-linux/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso [following]
--2019-02-22 11:43:31--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/antix-linux/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.105.38.13
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.105.38.13|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/antix-linux/Final/antiX-17.3/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso [following]
--2019-02-22 11:43:33--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/antix-linux/Final/antiX-17.3/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso
Reusing existing connection to downloads.sourceforge.net:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/antix-linux/Final/antiX-17.3/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso [following]
--2019-02-22 11:43:33--  https://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/antix-linux/Final/antiX-17.3/antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso
Resolving superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net (superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net)... 209.61.193.20
Connecting to superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net (superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net)|209.61.193.20|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 998244352 (952M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso’

antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso                            15%[=================>                                                                                                  ] 148.77M   417KB/s   eta 39m 16s^C

Gregg Bell · 02-22-2019, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

Any one of them, but, if were me, I'd select the newest one.

Thanks Frank. That makes sense to me too.

Gregg Bell · 02-22-2019, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

in this situation, yes.
take this one: https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubunt...ktop-amd64.iso

Thanks ondoho. And thanks for the file.

Gregg Bell · 02-22-2019, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Code:

wget -c https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releases/18.04/release/MD5SUMS

Code:

wget-c https://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/xubuntu/releases/18.04/release/xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso

md5sum check the downloaded iso in your current Ubuntu install.
Check it against the text file you downloaded.
Then turn and burn and off to the races.

Everything the above command downloaded will sitting in /home/your user name.
No special command for md5sum since terminal opens in that directory anyways.

1st 2 letters on iso typed in terminal then hit tab key when doing the md5sum check to make everything auto complete. Hit enter to get the md5sum after that.

Thanks rokytnji. Yeah, I'm going to have to get familiar with this md5sum stuff again. I did it before but that was years ago.

Gregg Bell · 02-22-2019, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

If not trusting that site md5sum text file or isos
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/re...18.04/release/

then go to the source luke.

wget works on their download urls also.

Thanks rokytnji. Why do they have all those mirrors if you can just go to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/re...18.04/release/ and get the file there? Anyway, that's what I'll do. Makes it simple, Obi-Wan.

rokytnji · 02-22-2019, 12:51 PM

Quote:

familiar with this md5sum stuff again.

Code:

harry@shop1:/media/_data/Downloads
$ md5sum antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso 
a080893b0526c41197fe5323b00864d6  antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso

Me checking against md5sum text file supplied for the check.

Gregg Bell · 02-22-2019, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Code:

harry@shop1:/media/_data/Downloads
$ md5sum antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso 
a080893b0526c41197fe5323b00864d6  antiX-17.3.1_x64-full.iso

Me checking against md5sum text file supplied for the check.

Okay, thanks, rokytnji. That made it super easy. I got the file and it checked out.