Setup Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Server

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Ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB last year when they were still available ... (right now they are sold-out everywhere ...)
But didn't set it up as way too many things to do. ⏳
Now I have a good excuse to set it up to run Gogs on it. #79

• Backup and wipe the fastest Micro SD card in the house so we can use it for the Pi.
• Download latest Ubuntu
• https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-install-ubuntu-desktop-on-raspberry-pi-4#1-overview
• ssh into the Pi from Mac

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Out of stock everywhere ...
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4?variant=31856486416467

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https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

Waiting ... (going to do some house work while this runs in the background ...)

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2am ... gonna leave this and get some sleep. really need to dwyl/sleep#53 ... 🛌

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99%. ... 🙌

psych! now verifying ...

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inserted the MicroSD in the Pi and it's booting.
Definitely heading to bed now tho. 02:30 ... 😫

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$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server

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https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/service-openssh

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ssh into the Rasperry Pi from Mac:

Working. Now back to the fun part! #79

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I mistakenly installed Ubuntu Desktop. And it keeps freezing!

Going to wipe it and install Ubuntu Server instead:

BRB ⏳

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This again ... 🙄

Good thing I've got a lot of other work I can be doing while this is running. 👨‍💻

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https://jonamiki.com/2020/08/29/default-password-not-working-for-ubuntu-server-20-04-on-raspberry-pi/

Be patient ... the default is ubuntu ubuntu ... but it takes time to init ... ⌛

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Connect the Ubuntu Server to Wifi:
https://itsfoss.com/connect-wifi-terminal-ubuntu/

$ ls /sys/class/net
eth0 lo wlan0

Make a note of the interfaces.

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Step 2: Edit the Netplan configuration file with the wifi interface detail

sudo vi /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml

Add the network details to the file including the password in plaintext ... 🙄
then run the commands:

$ sudo netplan generate
$ sudo netplan apply

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Appears to have worked.

and SSH works out-of-the-box on Server edition:

ssh ubuntu@192.168.1.197
$ whoami
ubuntu

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Running "desktopify" so I have a basic UI to view Gogs ... https://github.com/wimpysworld/desktopify

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OK. it was definitely a mistake to "desktopify" the server to full Ubuntu ...
it's taking forever and downloading a ton of stuff like LibreOffice, games and redundant drivers!

Lesson learned. Just run it as a server and do the GUI stuff from my main (Mac) computer.

Or perhaps consider using Lubuntu next time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu

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Scratch that "Lubuntu" doesn't appear to support Raspberry Pi (ARM) ... 🙄

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31191817