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[email protected] June 2016 This text is based on the manuals for Armbian (http://www.armbian.com/cubietruck/), Cubian (https://github/cubieplayer/Cubian/wiki/Get-started-with-Cubian), the tuto- rials on https://stefanius.de/category/minicomputer/tutorials-minicomputer/cubieboards- tutorials-minicomputer, https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/admin_manual/instal, ! lation/source_installation.html and two papers in c’t (2016:8 106–111 and 2014:21 74–77). 1 Install operating system • Get Armbian_5.10_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_trusty_4.5.2.7z from http://www.arm, ! bian.com/cubietruck/, unpack and install the image on an SD-card. Under Win- dows this is done with Win32DiskImager after changing the ending of the image file to .img. Under Linux use dd). • Insert SD-card in Cubietruck, connect 2:5 00 HD, monitor, ethernet-connection to the network and switch on power. Wait for the boot process, login as root with password “1234”. The system will force you to change the root password and suggest that you define a user for every day work (in the following “Hugo”). This user has sudo-rights, Ubuntu automatically creates a group with the user name, too. • Further users may be created with: – root@cubietruck:~$ adduser <UserName> – root@cubietruck:~$ usermod -aG sudo <UserName> • Use dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration to change the keyboard (de- fault is US). Similarly, use options locales, console-setup, or tzdata for lan- guage, font and timezone). 1 • The Cubie per default is connected to the net by DHCP, we leave it like that for the time being.