Tiki Head Linux 0.1
Download
One ISO file runs live from a USB stick and installs to a disk.
Tiki Head Linux 0.1
Download tiki-head-linux.isoThe download comes from linuxlive.com, which hosts the build.
- File
tiki-head-linux.iso- Size
- 4.7 GiB (5,043,247,104 bytes)
- SHA-256
44cbea26f2d3e83cef3af1209ce07b187f410441d5f07997ac9e5929b59ff484- Package list
- Every package in the ISO (text)
- Build log
- The GitHub Actions run that built and tested it
Before you start
What you need
- A 64-bit Intel or AMD computer. UEFI or older BIOS firmware both work. Macs with Apple silicon (M1 and later) cannot start it.
- A USB stick of 8 GB or more. Writing the ISO erases everything on it.
- To install: a disk you are happy to erase. The installer uses one whole disk, and tells you if the disk is too small.
Four steps
From download to desktop
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Check the file
When the download finishes, work out its SHA-256 checksum. It must match the one above character for character; if it doesn’t, download it again.
Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash .\tiki-head-linux.iso -Algorithm SHA256macOS (Terminal)
shasum -a 256 tiki-head-linux.isoLinux (terminal)
sha256sum tiki-head-linux.iso -
Write it to a USB stick
Pick the ISO, pick the stick, and write. Copy anything you need off the stick first.
- Windows: Rufus, or Ventoy to keep several ISOs on one stick.
- macOS: balenaEtcher or Fedora Media Writer.
- Linux: Fedora Media Writer, GNOME Disks (Restore Disk Image), or Ventoy.
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Start the computer from it
Plug the stick in, restart, and tap the boot menu key as soon as the screen lights up, then pick the stick from the list. Leave Secure Boot on; Tiki Head uses Ubuntu’s signed boot chain.
- F12 Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Gigabyte
- Esc then F9 HP
- Esc ASUS laptops (F8 on desktop boards)
- F11 MSI
More computers, and what to do if nothing happens, on linuxlive.com.
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Try it, then install it
The live session starts straight to the desktop with every app ready. When you want to keep it, open the installer from the desktop. It puts Tiki Head on one whole disk, erasing what was there, and needs no internet connection.
After installing, the first start sets up PostgreSQL with a PostGIS database for each person.
Before you dive in
Known issues in 0.1
Found by booting the 0.1 ISO in a virtual machine. Each has a quick way round it.
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Firefox, Chromium and Visual Studio Code don’t open in the live session
The live session skips loading AppArmor’s profiles, so Flatpak’s sandbox can’t start and the three Flathub apps quit straight away. That also stops Jupyter from opening its browser. Load the one profile they need, once per session:
Terminal
sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/bwrap-userns-restrict -
The sample map in ~/GIS/Projects can’t find its data
The copy of the QGIS project in your GIS folder, which
tiki-head-gis sampleopens, lists all five layers as unavailable. The original, next to the data, works:Terminal
qgis /usr/share/tiki-head/data/world.qgz -
tiki-head-gis reports “tippecanoe: not found”
tippecanoe isn’t on the ISO, and the tool list still asks for it. The rest of the list is right; build tippecanoe yourself if you need it.
No USB stick?
Try it in a virtual machine
VirtualBox works on Windows, Linux and Intel Macs; on Linux, GNOME Boxes is simpler still. Give the machine at least 4 GB of memory and 2 processors, turn on EFI, and attach the ISO as the optical drive.
To try the installer too, add a virtual disk of 32 GB before you start.
Tested on every build
| How it started | Result | Seconds |
|---|---|---|
| UEFI, from a USB stick | to the desktop | 26.5 |
| UEFI with Secure Boot, as a disc image | started | 20.5 |
| UEFI, as a disc image | started | 20.5 |
| BIOS, as a disc image | started | 18.5 |
| BIOS, from a USB stick | started | 20.5 |
Timed in QEMU by the build that made this ISO. Each build is also installed to a disk and started from it.
Make it yours
Newer builds and remixes
Every change to the source is built in GitHub Actions, where signed-in GitHub users can download the ISO from the run’s Artifacts. The Workshop on linuxlive.com copies Tiki Head’s spec into a distro of your own to change and rebuild.