Install the Ubuntu desktop

The sensor comes without a desktop enviroment installed. The reason is to save disk space and clutter from the sensor as it technically does not need a desktop environment. But, beeing an open platform, chances are that you as a developer would like to work on the sensor directly. For this a normal desktop environment is beneficial and can be easily installed via command line. Please follow these commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

This will take a while as approx. 1 GB of data needs to be downloaded, unpacked and configured. The installation contains two packages, which require your interaction during install, please select the correct keyboard layout and your current geo-location when asked.

When these commands finish without error, the desktop environment is installed successfully. To make it available upon reboot, please set the default system boot target to “graphical.target”:

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target

If there are no errors, the easiest way of switching to the desktop environment is a reboot:

sudo reboot

If you experience any issues during installation, please consider to contact our support.

Finally, after the reboot the system should boot to the greeter screen:

Figure: Log-in screen, please provide your username/password credentials.

Figure: First access, please do not run the distribution upgrade. The nvidia drivers are not yet available for Ubuntu 20.04. We will issue own updates as soon as the upstream dependencies are available.