---
title: "Ubuntu LTS version into your QNAP NAS (chroot/native)"
url: "https://forum.qnap.net.pl/threads/ubuntu-lts-version-into-your-qnap-nas-chroot-native.6059/"
thread_id: 6059
date: "2014-10-25"
category: "Instruktaż/Tutorial"
section: "Oh'Linux? Software hacking i QNAP modding"
source: "Forum QNAP Polska"
site: "https://forum.qnap.net.pl"
language: "pl"
ai_policy: "https://forum.qnap.net.pl/ai-policy.md"
license: "https://forum.qnap.net.pl/ai-policy.md"
---

# Ubuntu LTS version into your QNAP NAS (chroot/native)

> Source: <https://forum.qnap.net.pl/threads/ubuntu-lts-version-into-your-qnap-nas-chroot-native.6059/> · Instruktaż/Tutorial · Forum QNAP Polska · 2014-10-25

Prepare in QNAP NAS QTS GUI:
**I**. Create user and share name: `Backup`

**II**. Install Optware (Development) from QTS App Center

**II-1**. Once Optware is enabled, use PuTTY or any SSH client and login as `admin`
**II-2**. Execute following commands in SSH session:

```bash
ipkg install binutils
ipkg install coreutils
ipkg install perl
ipkg install nano mc
```

**III**. Prepare and download Ubuntu debootstrap

**III-1**. Download debootstrap

```bash
cd /share/Backup
mkdir -p chroot; cd chroot
wget -c http://mirror.esc7.net/pub/Ubuntu/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.40~precise2_all.deb
ar -x debootstrap_1.0.40~precise2_all.deb
tar xvf data.tar.gz
```

**III-2**. Set debootstrap directory path:

```bash
export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=`pwd`/usr/share/debootstrap
```

To make sure path is correctly set, execute:

```bash
ls $DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR
```

You should see:

```
devices.tar.gz   functions   scripts/
```

**III-3**. Set env. settings

```bash
export ARCH=i386
export RELEASE=precise
export MIRROR=http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
```

If you have 64-bit processor, change `i386` to `amd64`.
You can also change the mirror server by replacing `pl` to another country code.

**IV**. Initiate debootstrap

```bash
./usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch $ARCH --foreign $RELEASE ./$RELEASE\_$ARCH $MIRROR
```

**V**. Download QEMU

```bash
wget -c http://launchpadlibrarian.net/118258808/qemu-user-static_1.0.50-2012.03-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
ar -x qemu-user-static_1.0.50-2012.03-0ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
tar xvf data.tar.gz
```

**VI**. Run debootstrap second stage using QEMU arch

```bash
cp ./usr/bin/qemu-x86_64-static ./$RELEASE\_$ARCH/usr/bin
export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=""
LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C chroot $RELEASE\_$ARCH /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
```

**VII**. Configurue Ubuntu packages

```bash
LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C chroot $RELEASE\_$ARCH dpkg --configure -a
```

**VIII-1**. Download Ubuntu apt repository sources list

```bash
wget --no-check-certificate https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/sample/sources.list
```

All servers in `sources.list` are located in US, so you can change them:

```bash
sed -i "s/us\.archive/pl.archive/g" sources.list
```

**VIII-2**. Make backup of the original sources list and use the downloaded one instead:

```bash
mv $RELEASE\_$ARCH/etc/apt/sources.list $RELEASE\_$ARCH/etc/apt/sources.list.orig
cp sources.list $RELEASE\_$ARCH/etc/apt/sources.list
```

**IX**. Mount essential directories using `mountall.sh` script (see the end of the post):

```bash
./mountall.sh $RELEASE\_$ARCH
```

**
X**. Install common packages

```bash
LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C chroot $RELEASE\_$ARCH /bin/bash -c "apt-get update; apt-get install vim mc sudo gnupg -y; apt-get update; locale-gen en_US.UTF-8; echo \"Europe/Warsaw\" > /etc/timezone; dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata"
```

**XI**. Download and set GPG repository keys

```bash
LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C chroot $RELEASE\_$ARCH apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 3E5C1192
```

**XII**. Update apt repository

```bash
LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C chroot $RELEASE\_$ARCH apt-get update
```

**XIII**. Enjoy debootstrap

```bash
chroot $RELEASE\_$ARCH /bin/bash
```

**XIV**. Optional - upgrade packages

```bash
dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl
ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
```

**XV**. Optional - install xfce and xrdp
First - set password for root user:

```bash
passwd
touch ~/.Xauthority
```

Second - install xfce:

```bash
apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
```

Third - install xrdp:

```bash
apt-get install xrdp
```

Now you can connect to Ubuntu desktop via Windows Remote Desktop :-)

**HAPPY HACKING …**

APPEND - Useful scripts:

```bash
# ====mountall.sh====
cat > mountall.sh << EOF
#!/bin/bash

if [ -z \$1 ]; then
  CHROOT_PATH=ubuntu
else
  CHROOT_PATH=\$1
fi

DROOT=\`pwd\`/\$CHROOT_PATH

mount -t proc proc \$DROOT/proc
mount --bind /dev \$DROOT/dev
mount -t sysfs sysfs \$DROOT/sys
mount --bind /dev/pts \$DROOT/dev/pts
EOF
chmod +x mountall.sh
# =================
```

```bash
# ====first.sh====
chroot ubutu /bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get install vim sudo gnupg -y
apt-get updatelocale-gen en_US.UTF-8
echo "Europe/Warsaw" > /etc/timezone
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
exit
# =============
```

## Odpowiedzi społeczności

**III-1**. 3. - wrong url:  <http://mirror.esc7.net/pub/Ubuntu/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.40~precise2_all.deb>

Silas, sprawdzisz?
Dzięki.

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To się niczym nie różni od natywnego Debiana.
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