System Preparation

The following section will explain how to setup a Cubietruck. It will not cover every detail but will give a good overview on the important steps.

Hint
Display, mouse and keyboard are not needed.

Download

For the Cubietruck we use Cubian SD Image (actually version Cubian-desktop-r1-a20-ct). You can download it from here:

System Installation

•	Unpack the 7z file to get the img file

•	Use Win32DiskImager (http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/) to bring the image to the SD card. You need at least a 4GB SD card.

•	Put the SD card in the Cubietruck und power it on

System Preparation

•	Connect to 'cubian' vie SSH (Port 36000, User cubie, Password cubie)

•	Bring Cubian to the NAND-Flash ...

•	sudo bash (Password cubie)

•	Get a PGP Key for debian: wget -O - http://packages.cubian.org/cubian.gpg.key \| apt-key add -

•	Update the software package lists apt-get update

•	Update the installed software packages (this may take a while) apt-get dist-upgrade

•	Get the Script for NAND Install apt-get install cubian-nandinstall

•	Run the Script for NAND Install (takes about 10 minutes) cubian-nandinstall If the script finished it will shut down your Cubietruck (after you enter Y).

•	Remove the SD card and power on the Cubietruck again. It should boot from NAND now.

•	Set Timezone sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

•	Locales in English (en_US.UTF-8) sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

•	Kernel update sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cubian-update

If you get messages like this:

locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory

locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

try to reinstall the locales:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall locales

Software Install / Update

•	Install some additional useful packages (maybe some are preinstalled) sudo apt-get install sudoku htop git build-essential autoconf automake screen curl binutils (It's always a good idea to have Sudoku installed :-)

Hints

General Information about Debian software installation / updates
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto