Ubuntu Education (UbuntuEd)

Hi everyone,

The first stable build of UbuntuEd 20.04 Focal Fossa is now available. This is an Education Edition of Ubuntu for kids, schools and universities, and a substitute for the now discontinued Edubuntu (Ubuntu Education) flavor. It can be downloaded from:

Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m0LjZDeY-4Cj3vJX8Ymqls14b3gQVHEt?usp=sharing

Torrent: https://k-jtan.ca/torrents/distributions/ubuntu-ed/

MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/WZIGHArL#6owTrrs3Tq8JyaRaW1MCbQ

Project website would be available soon. Our Twitter handle is at https://twitter.com/ed_ubuntu, Telegram Channel and Group at t.me/ubuntuunityannouncements and t.me/ubuntuunitydiscuss respectively. Please log any issues/bugs that you find during testing at https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/ubuntu-unity-issues/-/issues/.

Release Notes:

  1. Both GNOME and Unity7 (default) DEs are available, and you can choose between them while logging in.

  2. Apart from the default applications already present in UbuntuEd, metapackages are available to install additional educational applications. Metapackages for more subjects would be made available soon. These can be installed on existing Ubuntu systems as well:

For different age groups -

a. Pre-school (ages < 6) - tuxpaint, gamine, parley, tuxtype, tuxmath

b. Primary (ages 6-12) - gnome-calculator, gamine, laby, tuxpaint, tuxmath, tuxtype

c. Secondary (ages 13-18) - gnome-calculator, laby, calibre, marble, einstein, lybniz, chemtool, inkscape, fritzing, tuxtype

d. Tertiary (university level) - gnome-calculator, calibre, chemtool, laby, openscad, inkscape, step, fritzing

For different subjects -

1. os-devel.deb (Operating System Development) --> zsh, qemu-system-x86, nasm, build-essential, kate, g++, clang, emacs

2. code-devel.deb (Development) --> zsh, default-jdk, default-jre, build-essential, python3, ruby, kate, netbeans

3. astronomy.deb (Astronomy) --> kstars, gimp, redshift, astromatic, stellarium, xplanet, gpredict, previsat, gcx

4. chemistry.deb (Chemistry) --> gdis, openbabel, chemtool, xdrawchem, gromacs, psi4, nwchem, avogadro, pymol, cp2k, gabedit

5. physics.deb (Physics) --> cernlib, lightspeed, openfoam, cp2k, step, gerris, geant321

6. maths.deb (Mathematics) --> cantor, geogebra, geomview, gnuplot, grace, graphmonkey, python3-matplotlib, jfractionlab, jupyter-nbformat, jupyter-notebook, kalgebra, kbruch, kig, kmplot, rocs, xmabacus

7. neuroscience.deb (Neuroscience) --> afni, bioimagesuite, brainvisa, caret, connectomeviewer, debruijn, eeglab, fieldtrip, freesurfer, fsl, fslview, hid, iqr, lipsia, mni-autoreg, mni-n3, openmeeg-tools, openwalnut-qt4, pysurfer, science-psychophysics, science-typesetting, slicer, spm8, voxbo, xnat, amide, dicom3tools, dicomnifti, itksnap, medcon, minc-tools, mriconvert, mricron, nifti-bin, nifti2dicom, praat, psignifit, python3-nibabel, python3-pydicom, python3-statsmodels, qnifti2dicom, xmedcon

These can be downloaded from the same source (Google Drive, in the folder ‘Extras’). All additional/requested apps that are packaged for UbuntuEd would be uploaded to ‘Apps’ folder in Google Drive. To install the UbuntuEd educational metapackages (on any Debian-based distribution, including UbuntuEd and Ubuntu), type the following command:

sudo apt install <PATH-TO-FILE>

where <PATH-TO-FILE> is the path to the downloaded metapackage.

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Thank you, website will be available soon. The project Twitter handle is at https://twitter.com/ed_ubuntu, Telegram Channel and Group at t.me/ubuntuunityannouncements and t.me/ubuntuunitydiscuss respectively.

New metapackages are now available for more subjects:

os-devel.deb (Operating System Development) --> zsh, qemu-system-x86, nasm, build-essential, kate, g++, clang, emacs

code-devel.deb (Development) --> zsh, default-jdk, default-jre, build-essential, python3, ruby, kate, netbeans

astronomy.deb (Astronomy) --> kstars, gimp, redshift, astromatic, stellarium, xplanet, gpredict, previsat, gcx

chemistry.deb (Chemistry) --> gdis, openbabel, chemtool, xdrawchem, gromacs, psi4, nwchem, avogadro, pymol, cp2k, gabedit

physics.deb (Physics) --> cernlib, lightspeed, openfoam, cp2k, step, gerris, geant321

maths.deb (Mathematics) --> cantor, geogebra, geomview, gnuplot, grace, graphmonkey, python3-matplotlib, jfractionlab, jupyter-nbformat, jupyter-notebook, kalgebra, kbruch, kig, kmplot, rocs, xmabacus

neuroscience.deb (Neuroscience) --> afni, bioimagesuite, brainvisa, caret, connectomeviewer, debruijn, eeglab, fieldtrip, freesurfer, fsl, fslview, hid, iqr, lipsia, mni-autoreg, mni-n3, openmeeg-tools, openwalnut-qt4, pysurfer, science-psychophysics, science-typesetting, slicer, spm8, voxbo, xnat, amide, dicom3tools, dicomnifti, itksnap, medcon, minc-tools, mriconvert, mricron, nifti-bin, nifti2dicom, praat, psignifit, python3-nibabel, python3-pydicom, python3-statsmodels, qnifti2dicom, xmedcon

More subject metapackages would be available soon.

How to install UbuntuEd educational metapackages (on any Debian-based distribution, including UbuntuEd and Ubuntu)

Type the following command:

sudo apt install <PATH-TO-FILE>

Where <PATH-TO-FILE> is the path to the downloaded metapackage from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nmbPB_LCS6J459LHmYjVGW830zn_P7Eg?usp=sharing

We now have a platform where you can contribute projects and artwork for UbuntuEd - The Open Source Hub at http://foss.ubuntuunity.org

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A proper discussion forum (much like Ubuntu Discourse) at http://foss.ubuntuunity.org/forums

There are direct links to these on our website (ubuntuunity.org).

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Truly amazing! I really do appreciate you effort.

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Hello @rs2009. Thank you very much for making the extra packages available in the Google Drive.

I have installed UbuntuEd, and I would like to install the “neuroscience” package. However, Ubuntu says that there are unmet dependencies:

**The following packages have unmet dependencies:**
** ubuntued-meta-neuroscience : Depends: afni but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: bioimagesuite but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: brainvisa but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: caret but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: connectomeviewer but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: debruijn but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: eeglab but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: fieldtrip but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: freesurfer but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: fslview but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: hid but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: iqr but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: lipsia but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: mni-autoreg but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: mni-n3 but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: openmeeg-tools but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: openwalnut-qt4 but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: pysurfer but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: slicer but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: spm8 but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: voxbo but it is not installable**
**                              Depends: xnat but it is not installable**
**E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.**

Would you tell me what I should do in order to solve this problem, please?
Thank you very much for your help.

Bubba

I can handle neurology software based on GTK and Qt

Buenos días:
will PXE boot?
Como el antiguo Edubuntu que si podía arrancar maquinas tontas

you can always install the LTSP package from the archive for this (like edubuntu did back then)