Ubuntu Ningi is a single-DVD Ubuntu installer for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu server flavors, and with many additional packages from main, universe and multiverse. Ningi is intended for people with poor or no network connectivity, who can't just go off downloading their favorite package off the web after installing the system.

As of yet, Ubuntu Ningi project focuses on the x86 (32bit Intel/AMD) architecture, as this is the most popular platform for the Ubuntu users.

Currently we are working on the DVD installation for the Edgy Eft release. We have prepared the first version of the installation DVD, with 4.2GB worth of packages that are used by many of the Ubuntu users, updated to the newest versions (as of 24.12.2006.). This isn't LiveCD, all installers are based on debian-installer (-alternate versions of distributions).

There are some issues in installer, but they aren't dramatic, so we are releasing it now. This bugs will get resolved for next version. If you find a bug, ATM, you can report it at ningi@ubuntu-hr.org. Soon, we will create product on LP, where bugtracking would be much easier.

P.S. Ningi is an african word meaning "many", so Ubuntu Ningi should mean "much humanity to others" ;-)

You can grab first release of Ningi here. This is Ubuntu Ningi 6.10 version.

MD5: c7ae576c4b07d4cf241ac11956de4e6d

For upgrading or adding CD as a repository, you will need Ningi's GPG key. You can add it to your apt-get whit this command:

wget http://www.ubuntu-hr.org/ningi/ningi.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

If you think this is a worthwile goal, and if you're using the Edgy Eft release, please help us create package usage statistics for Ubuntu Edgy Eft.

To help, you only need to create a list of packages installed on your system, and upload the list to our server. It only takes a second, and the steps are:

1. Create a package list for your system

   Open a terminal and run the following command line, which will save the list to a file:

   COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk ' { if ($1 == "ii") print $2; }' > /tmp/pkglist.txt
   

   It is a one-liner shell script that lists all the packages (dpkg -l), selects only the package name (print $2;) and saves it to a file (> /tmp/pkglist.txt).

   Note: if you have any doubts about what these commands do, don't run them! The Internet can be a dangerous place for the unexpecting, so don't blindly trust anything you find in a web page. (Yeah, that means don't trust us, too :-)

2. Upload the list

   Press the "Browse" button and find pkglist.txt on your file system in the /tmp/ folder, then press "Upload":

   Upload file:

3. Thank you!

   We really appriciate your time and effort. Thanks for helping this project, and contributing to make Ubuntu even better and more available to anyone! If you have any questions or comments about this project, please contact us at ningi@ubuntu-hr.org.