There is some good news for all Ubuntu fans owning a Samsung Galaxy Tab. You can now install Ubuntu on your Samsung Galaxy Tab using the same method utilized to plant Ubuntu image on Samsung Galaxy S. Although the Ubuntu interface is still not optimized to run on the Tab, but user reviews and ratings show that it’s not that bad of a deal at all.

Please note that this guide is only intended for users who already have attained root on their Samsung Galaxy Tab. In addition to this, you also need to have busybox, Superuser, Android VNC and terminal emulator pre-installed.

Before embarking on this guide, you need to have ADB installed on your PC. You can follow our comprehensive ADB tutorial posted here for this purpose.

1. The firsts step is to download Ubuntu package from here and save it on your desktop. The package contains bootlinux, fsrw, mountonly, ubuntu.img, ubuntu.sh and unionfs. Please note that the file size is 762 MB.

2. Now extract the files from the package you just downloaded.

3. Now connect your tab to the computer, mount SD card and make a new folder “Ubuntu” on SD card root.

4. Once done, copy all the extracted files to Ubuntu folder in SD card root.

5. Now unmount the card, but leave the Samsung Galaxy Tab plugged in.

6. Now launch Command Prompt on your computer and change directory to /SDK/tools. Use C:/Sdk/tools or wherever your SDK tools for Android are located.

7. Now type

adb shell su

8. Once the # sign appears, type

sh ./ubuntu.sh

9. Now wait for the procedure to finish and enter

bootlinux

10. once you get the prompt root@localhost, it means that you have successfully flashed Ubuntu image on your Samsung Galaxy Tab.

11. Now assuming that you already have Android VNC setup, type the following commands:

rm -rf /tmp/.X* export USER=root vncserver -geometry 1280x800

It is extremely important to register that fact that this guide is intended for advanced users only and you can head on to the official XDA thread located here for results, help and support. You can also do all the steps in terminal emulator on your phone after pushing the files to SD card.

Here is a video of Ubuntu on Samsung Galaxy Tab:

Disclaimer: Please use this guide at your own risk. AddictiveTips won’t be responsible for any permanent / non-permanent damage caused to your device due to this method.

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