Can I run Ubuntu Studio on a Raspberry pi?

My question is pretty straight forward Can a Raspberry pi 400 run on Ubuntu Studio? If possible then How?

1 Answer

I don't believe Ubuntu Studio is by default available for Raspberry Pi.

Here's why:

1. The official System Requirements lists Intel processors (or equivalent) as a requirement (reference).

   Required:	Recommended:
   CPU:	Intel Core 2 Duo equivalent	Intel Core i5 equivalent or better
   RAM:	2GB	8GB
   Drive Space:	16GB	64GB, more for audio/video work

2. Ubuntu Studio might rely on the "low-latency" kernel variant (included in the installation image), which is by default not released for Raspberry Pi.

I'm not saying it's impossible to build Ubuntu Studio for Raspberry Pi, but I don't see it being available out of the box.

However, after digging through the packages, it actually looks like the packages for Ubuntu Studio are available on all platforms, including Arm64 (with reference to N0rbert's comment above).

This poses an interesting idea - is it in fact possible to install the Ubuntu Studio desktop and additional packages so they run on a Raspberry Pi?

First you need to enable Universe repositories. Make sure these lines are uncommented in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb focal universe
deb focal-updates universe
deb focal-security universe

You could then try the following:

sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-desktop^

And then install additional packages, according to your needs.

sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-desktop^
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-fonts^
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-graphics^
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-photography^
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-publishing^
sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-video^

However, referring to the official website this would be unsupported, and entirely on your own risk.

Refer to this existing question, as pointed out by N0rbert, for details.