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I bought a new HDD today, and I'd like to make a fresh install of Kubuntu. Unfortunately, the largest storage device I have is 2gb, which is not enough to hold the graphical live installer. But wait! I have a fully functional, running ubuntu installation. Surely I can re-run the live installer, install to my new HDD, and be on my way?

Except... I can't figure out how to. I've grabbed the ubiquity-frontend-kde package, which I think provides the installer I want. I tried launching it with ubiquity, ubiquity ubiquity-frontend-kde, and ubiquity --desktop kde_ui, guessing from this stack exchange answer. However, all my guesses either exit with code 1, or print some combination of the following lines:

/usr/bin/ubiquity:74: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
  import imp
The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file

This incident has been reported.

The wiki page is remarkably unhelpful on this front.

Does anyone know how I can run the live installer?

DDR
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    I believe your question is similar to this one: https://askubuntu.com/questions/64504/if-i-can-how-do-i-install-ubuntu-from-ubuntu and also this one: https://askubuntu.com/questions/207871/can-you-install-ubuntu-directly-to-a-hdd – GreenGrasshopper Nov 18 '19 at 08:15

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Get an iso file that is small enough to fit in your USB pendrive, and that can do what you want.

  • I would recommend using the Ubuntu Minimal CD alias mini.iso alias Netboot iso file, if it is OK to boot in BIOS mode.

  • Otherwise, in UEFI mode, you can use an Ubuntu Server iso file which is also smaller than 2 GB, and install a minimal system.

When running the installed minimal system, run

sudo apt update
sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

and reboot to get Kubuntu.

sudodus
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