1. Why UbuntuMate?

Raspberrypi’s officail support OS is Raspbian, but I find that it is not very well in supporting Chinese charset.

So I use UbuntuMate 16.04 LTS instead, it seems did more works in international.

2. Prepare

First, Download Win32DiskImager, and the UbuntuMate 16.04 image. It only works under Windows10, I tried it on Mac OSX but failed.

Prepare one USB HDD and one SD card. The SD card needs, not very large, 64M space and above, and mine is 2G.

When the Raspberrypi is booting, you need to connect the USB HDD and put the SD card in too. It seems a waste but this is the only way I found to run a raspberrypi on UbuntuMate.

Connect the USB HDD, use Win32DiskImager to copy the UbuntuMate image on the USB HDD. It will makes the disk divide into 3 partitions. And only the first partition is availible on Win10, you can’t see the others two.

Insert the SD card, copy every file from the HDD to SD card.

Edit the file “cmdline.txt” on SD card:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait

Change to:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=tty1 root=/dev/sda2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait

Change the “mmcblk0p2“ to “sda2“, and save.

3. Install

Insert the SD card in and connect the USB HDD on the raspi, and power on. It will starts the UbuntuMate install program if everything goes fine.

After the UbuntuMate installed, you will find the second partition, we mentioned above, only has 8G space and the rest has gone.

We need expand the USB HDD’s file system.

sudo fdisk /dev/sda
d,2
n,2,[Enter],[Enter]
w

sudo reboot

sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1

This will makes your HDD have the full space in the second partition.

4. Shadowsocks

Install Shadowsocks-Qt5

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hzwhuang/ss-qt5

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install shadowsocks-qt5

Start Shadowsocks-Qt5

Install GenPAC and gfwlist.txt

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential

sudo pip install --upgrade pip

sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv

sudo pip install genpac

cd ~; mkdir shadowsocks; cd shadowsocks

wget http://raw.githubusercontent.com/gfwlist/gfwlist/master/gfwlist.txt

genpac -p "SOCKS5 127.0.0.1:1080" --gfwlist-proxy="SOCKS5 127.0.0.1:1080" --output="autoproxy.pac" --gfwlist-local=gfwlist.txt

Add a proxy

System -> Preference -> Internet and Network -> Network Proxy

Select Automatic Proxy

Set Automatic configure URL as:

file:///home/{USERNAME}/shadowsocks/autoproxy.pac

5. Ohters

Googlepinyin

sudo apt-get install fcitx fcitx-googlepinyin

Mysql

sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo vi /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

Remember, comment bind-address = 127.0.0.1 using the # symbol

6. Finish