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More up-to-date information is available on the official Lubuntu website at Lubuntu.me

This wiki should be considered unmaintained and deprecated, though some information may still be relevant. Please instead refer to Lubuntu.me.

Welcome

Contents

More up-to-date information is available on the official Lubuntu website at Lubuntu.me
Welcome
Get Lubuntu
1. Upgrading from last release
Lubuntu vs Ubuntu
Lubuntu vs Windows 7
Contribute to Lubuntu
Links

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Welcome to the Lubuntu flavour wiki page

The objective of the Lubuntu project is to create a variant of Ubuntu that is lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI.

Lubuntu is targeted at PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware that, in most cases, just don't have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the "full-featured" mainstream distributions. Members of the team take care of LXDE and other packages that are part of Lubuntu. Lubuntu received official recognition as a formal member of the Ubuntu family, commencing with Lubuntu 11.10. Even though Lubuntu is a lightweight distribution, it does not mean you will not be able to run all applications that other distributions are currently offering. It does mean that it is prepared and developed for low-specification computers. Nonetheless, you can run any application available in the official repositories, as long as your hardware can bear with it.

Please join us and contribute to an exciting international Free and Open Source Software project. We look forward to working together with you.

The default "Desktop" installer requires 384-800 MB of RAM (depending on selected options.) If you have problems, please use the alternative installer.

Get Lubuntu

To download Lubuntu and see the various options available head over to Get Lubuntu. This section discusses both the standard installs and those required for computers with low memory (RAM), old chipsets (i586) and low disk-space (netbooks). Make sure to read the release notes!

Upgrading from last release

When upgrading, it is recommended that you back up your own data.

The update manager GUI will offer you the next release of Lubuntu (it shows as Ubuntu, but updates Lubuntu); Alternatively, launch LXTerminal and enter

sudo do-release-upgrade

Please NOTE: Upgrade details (along with all detail on this page) apply to legacy releases of Lubuntu using LXDE. Lubuntu switched to the newer LXQt desktop with Lubuntu 18.10 meaning the instruction here ended after upgrading to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS.

If you read later release notes (eg. https://lubuntu.me/focal-1-released/) you'll read

"Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install."

Lubuntu vs Ubuntu

Both Lubuntu and Ubuntu share two major important things: same Core System and same Repositories. Lubuntu and Ubuntu belong to the same family and talking about each as totally different two systems is not correct since they have some things in common. Thus, we use the same Forum Area and share many Wiki Pages.

The differences between Lubuntu and Ubuntu are:

Different DE - Lubuntu uses LXDE while Ubuntu uses Unity as the default DE on releases up to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS. Lubuntu uses LXQt from Lubuntu 18.10.
Different Default Applications

Other than that, they are the same. The DE is what makes Lubuntu a lightweight OS, and of course the selected applications too because we make sure to use the lightest applications which are not resource hungry. However, you are still free to use any application available in Ubuntu’s repositories, as long as your computer can run it.

Lubuntu is recognized as a member the Ubuntu family by the developers of Ubuntu.

As of 14.04, long term support (LTS) versions are available.

Lubuntu vs Windows 7

For those of you who are feeling that your computer is not working anymore with Windows 7 because, say, it is getting slower, here is a chart comparing Lubuntu’s starting applications and the most used softwares in Windows 7:

Lubuntu Application	Function	Windows Software	Included in SP1
Xpad	Stickies	Microsoft OneNote
Evince	PDF Viewer	Adobe Reader
Gnumeric	Spreadsheet	Microsoft Excel	(Office suite)
Abiword	Docs	Microsoft Word	(Office suite)
Simple-scan	Scanner		(driver)
Gnome-disk-utility	Partition Editor	Disk Manager
Light-locker	Screensaver	Scrnsaver
Guvcview	Webcam Utility		(driver)
Gucharmap	Character Map	Character map
Scrot	Screenshot		(3rd party app)
Hardinfo	System info	System profiler
Mtpaint	Image Editing	Paint
Xfburn	Cd Burning		(3rd party app)
Pcmanfm	File Manager	Explorer
Gcalculator	Calculator	Calc
Audacious	Audio Player	Windows Media Player
Gnome-mplayer	Video Player	Windows Media Player
Transmission	Torrent		(3rd party app)
Pidgin	Instant Messaging	Microsoft Lync
Sylpheed	Email Client	Outlook
Mozilla Firefox	Web browser	Internet Explorer
Leafpad	Editor	Notepad / Wordpad
File-roller	(De)Compress files	Explorer	(only ZIP files)
Lxterminal	Terminal	cmd	(some features)
Gpicview	Image Viewer	Windows Media Center

Contribute to Lubuntu

Do you want to help make Lubuntu even more awesome? Learn more using the links below. We need contributions in the following areas:

Please visit out primary web site :

More detail are available on the Getting Involved page.

Links

Official links

IRC channels

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message. If you need help on using IRC please read this. Lubuntu related channels are:

Channel	Description	Contact team
#lubuntu	Lubuntu help channel	Lubuntu team
#lubuntu-offtopic	Community related non-support discussion	Lubuntu team
#lubuntu-devel	Lubuntu development and QA coordination	Lubuntu IRC team

Social media

Facebook Official page

Facebook Official group

Facebook Off Topic

Facebook QA Testing

Google Plus

Twitter Official Group

LXDE

LXQt

LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment. For more information on LXQt and the latest developments bringing it to Lubuntu, see here.

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<p>Read this guide in other languages:</p>

<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Arabic">
<img src="http://lubuntu.me/wp-content/plugins/azurecurve-flags/images/sa.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;العَرَبِية
</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/French">
<img src="http://lubuntu.me/wp-content/plugins/azurecurve-flags/images/fr.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;Français
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<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Hindi">
<img src="http://lubuntu.me/wp-content/plugins/azurecurve-flags/images/in.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;हिन्दी
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<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Japanese">
<img src="http://lubuntu.me/wp-content/plugins/azurecurve-flags/images/jp.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;日本語
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<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Spanish">
<img src="http://lubuntu.me/wp-content/plugins/azurecurve-flags/images/es.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;Español
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<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/German">
<img src="http://lubuntu.me/wp-content/plugins/azurecurve-flags/images/es.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;Deutsch
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'''Welcome to the Lubuntu flavour wiki page'''
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-= System Requirements =

We have done many tests and we've found out that Lubuntu can be installed on a Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 MB of RAM, but such a system would not perform well enough for daily use. 

With 256MB - 384MB of RAM, the performance will be better and the system will be more usable.

With 512MB of RAM, you don't need to worry much.
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-To download Lubuntu and see the various options available head over to [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu | Get Lubuntu]]. This section discusses both the standard installs and those required for computers with low memory (RAM), old chipsets (i586) and low disk-space (netbooks). Please read the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu | release notes]] before you install.
+To download Lubuntu and see the various options available head over to [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu | Get Lubuntu]]. This section discusses both the standard installs and those required for computers with low memory (RAM), old chipsets (i586) and low disk-space (netbooks). Make sure to read the release notes!
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-The update manager GUI will offer you the next release of lubuntu ([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/990091 | it shows as Ubuntu, but updates Lubuntu]]); Alternatively, launch [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp/LXTerminal | LXTerminal]] and enter
+The update manager GUI will offer you the next release of Lubuntu ([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/990091 | it shows as Ubuntu, but updates Lubuntu]]); Alternatively, launch [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationHelp/LXTerminal | LXTerminal]] and enter
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+Please NOTE:  Upgrade details (along with all detail on this page) apply to legacy releases of Lubuntu using LXDE.  Lubuntu switched to the newer LXQt desktop with Lubuntu 18.10 meaning the instruction here ended after upgrading to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS.

If you read later release notes (eg. https://lubuntu.me/focal-1-released/) you'll read 

 * "Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install."
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 * Same Core System
 * Same Repositories

Lubuntu and Ubuntu belong to the same family and talking about each as totally different two systems is not correct since they have some things in common. Thus, we use the same [[http://ubuntuforums.org/ | Forum Area]] and share many Wiki Pages.
+Both Lubuntu and Ubuntu share two major important things: same '''Core System''' and same '''Repositories'''. Lubuntu and Ubuntu belong to the same family and talking about each as totally different two systems is not correct since they have some things in common. Thus, we use the same [[http://ubuntuforums.org/ | Forum Area]] and share many Wiki Pages.
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- * Different [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment | DE]] - Lubuntu uses [[http://lxde.org/ | LXDE]] while Ubuntu uses [[http://unity.ubuntu.com/ | Unity]] as the default DE.
+ * Different [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment | DE]] - Lubuntu uses [[http://lxde.org/ | LXDE]] while Ubuntu uses [[http://unity.ubuntu.com/ | Unity]] as the default DE on releases up to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS.  Lubuntu uses [[https://lxqt.org// | LXQt]] from Lubuntu 18.10.
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-||<rowbgcolor="#0066FF" rowstyle="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;font-weight:bold">Lubuntu Application ||Function||Windows Software||Included in SP1||
||Xpad||Stickies||Microsoft !OneNote||Yes||
||Evince||PDF Viewer||Adobe Reader||Yes||
||Gnumeric||Spreadsheet||Excel||Yes||
||Abiword||Docs||Word||Yes||
||Simple-scan||Scanner|| || ||
||Gnome-disk-utility||Partition Editor||Disk Manager||Yes||
||Light-locker|| Screensaver||Scrnsave.exe||Yes||
||Guvcview||Webcam Utility||Driver-related||Yes||
||Gucharmap|| Character Map|| || ||
||Scrot||Screenshot|| ||Available, but it is not a program||
||Hardinfo|| System info|| ||Featured||
||Mtpaint|| Image Editing||Paint||Yes||
||Xfburn||Cd Burning||No||Not featured||
||Pcmanfm||File Manager||Explorer.exe|| ||
||Gcalculator||Calculator||Calc|| ||
||Audacious||Audio Player ||Windows Media Player||Yes||
||Gnome-mplayer||Video Player ||Windows Media Player||Yes||
||Transmission||Torrent||No||No||
||Pidgin||Instant Messaging||Microsoft Lync||No||
||Sylpheed||Email Client||Outlook||Yes||
||Mozilla Firefox||Browser||Internet Explorer||Yes||
||Leafpad||Editor||Notepad/WordPad||Yes||
||File-roller||Zip files manager|| ||Not featured||
||Lxterminal||Terminal||cmd.exe||Yes||
||Gpicview||Image Viewer||Windows Media Center||Yes||

These are the minimum hardware requirements in order to run Windows 7:
 * 1 GHz processor or faster, 32 or 64 bits;
 * 1 GB of RAM for the 32 bits version, or at least 2 for the 64 bits version;
 * 16 GB of hard drive (32 bits) or 20 GB (64 bits);
 * Graphics card that supports DirectX 9 with WDDM 1.0 controler or superior

For comparison, here are the minimum supported requirements of Lubuntu:
 * 266 MHz processor;
 * 128 MB;
 * 3 GB hard drive;
 * no fancy graphics

A more usable system would have:
 * 512 MHz processor or faster, 32 or 64 bits;
 * 512 MB of RAM;
 * 6 GB hard drive;
 * no fancy graphics
+||<tablestyle="width:95%;" rowbgcolor="#0066FF" rowstyle="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;font-weight:bold;">Lubuntu Application || Function || Windows Software || Included in SP1 ||
|| Xpad || Stickies || Microsoft !OneNote || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF"> Evince || PDF Viewer || Adobe Reader|| {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Gnumeric || Spreadsheet || Microsoft Excel || {{attachment:no.png}} (Office suite)||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Abiword || Docs || Microsoft Word || {{attachment:no.png}} (Office suite)||
|| Simple-scan || Scanner || || {{attachment:no.png}} (driver) ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Gnome-disk-utility || Partition Editor || Disk Manager || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Light-locker || Screensaver || Scrnsaver || {{attachment:yes.png}}||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Guvcview || Webcam Utility || || {{attachment:no.png}} (driver) ||
|| Gucharmap || Character Map|| Character map || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Scrot || Screenshot|| || {{attachment:no.png}} (3rd party app) ||
|| Hardinfo || System info || System profiler ||  {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Mtpaint || Image Editing || Paint || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Xfburn || Cd Burning || || {{attachment:no.png}} (3rd party app) ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Pcmanfm || File Manager|| Explorer || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Gcalculator || Calculator|| Calc || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Audacious || Audio Player || Windows Media Player || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Gnome-mplayer|| Video Player || Windows Media Player || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Transmission || Torrent || || {{attachment:no.png}} (3rd party app) ||
|| Pidgin || Instant Messaging || Microsoft Lync|| {{attachment:no.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Sylpheed || Email Client || Outlook || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| Mozilla Firefox || Web browser || Internet Explorer || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Leafpad || Editor || Notepad / Wordpad || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
|| File-roller || (De)Compress files || Explorer ||  {{attachment:yes.png}} (only ZIP files) ||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF">  Lxterminal || Terminal || cmd || {{attachment:yes.png}} (some features) ||
|| Gpicview || Image Viewer || Windows Media Center || {{attachment:yes.png}} ||
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- * [[http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com | The Lubuntu Blog]]
 * [[http://lubuntu.net | Lubuntu Website]]
 * [[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop | Lubuntu on Launchpad]]
 * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/WikiMap | Lubuntu Wiki map]]
 * [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LubuntuLinks | Lubuntu OneStopPage]]
 * [[Lubuntu/AdvancedMethods| Lubuntu Advanced Methods]]
+ . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[http://lubuntu.me/ | Lubuntu Website]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[http://lubuntu.me/blog/ | The Lubuntu Blog]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop | Lubuntu on Launchpad]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/WikiMap | Lubuntu Wiki map]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LubuntuLinks | Lubuntu OneStopPage]]
 . {{attachment:circle.png}} [[Lubuntu/AdvancedMethods| Lubuntu Advanced Methods]]

== IRC channels ==

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message. If you need help on using IRC please read [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat|this]]. Lubuntu related channels are:


||<tablestyle="width: 96%;" rowbgcolor="#0066FF" rowstyle="color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;font-weight:bold;">Channel||Description||Contact team||
||[[irc://irc.freenode.net/lubuntu|#lubuntu]]||Lubuntu help channel||[[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop|Lubuntu team]]||
||<rowbgcolor="#EBEBFF"> [[irc://irc.freenode.net/lubuntu-offtopic|#lubuntu-offtopic]]||Community related non-support discussion||[[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop|Lubuntu team]]||
||[[irc://irc.freenode.net/lubuntu-devel|#lubuntu-devel]]||Lubuntu development and QA coordination||[[https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-irc-ops|Lubuntu IRC team]]||
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+||<tablestyle="width: 100%;" style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://www.facebook.com/Lubuntu.Official.Page|{{attachment:icon_facebook.png}}]]<<BR>>Facebook Official page||<style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://www.facebook.com/groups/Lubuntu.Official|{{attachment:icon_facebook.png}}]]<<BR>>Facebook Official group||<style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://www.facebook.com/groups/Lubuntu.Offtopic|{{attachment:icon_facebook.png}}]]<<BR>>Facebook Off Topic||<style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://www.facebook.com/groups/Lubuntu.QA|{{attachment:icon_facebook.png}}]]<<BR>>Facebook QA Testing||
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-||<style="border: 1px solid red; text-align:center; width: 200px;">[[https://twitter.com/LubuntuOfficial|{{attachment:icon_twitter.png}}]]<<BR>>Twitter Official Group||<style="border: 1px solid red; text-align:center; width: 200px;">[[https://twitter.com/LubuntuOfficial|{{attachment:icon_reddit.png}}]]<<BR>>Reddit||<style="border: 1px solid red; text-align:center; width: 200px;">[[https://www.pinterest.com/lubuntu|{{attachment:icon_pinterest.png}}]]<<BR>>Pinterest||
+||<tablestyle="width: 100%;" style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://plus.google.com/communities/102737741860934586009|{{attachment:icon_plus.png}}]]<<BR>>Google Plus||<tablestyle="width: 100%;" style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://twitter.com/LubuntuOfficial|{{attachment:icon_twitter.png}}]]<<BR>>Twitter Official Group||<style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://www.reddit.com/r/Lubuntu|{{attachment:icon_reddit.png}}]]<<BR>>Reddit||<style="border: 1px solid white; text-align:center; width: 25%;">[[https://www.pinterest.com/lubuntu|{{attachment:icon_pinterest.png}}]]<<BR>>Pinterest||
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+== LXQt ==

LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment. For more information on LXQt and the latest developments bringing it to Lubuntu, see [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/LXQt | here ]].

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