Ubuntu 12.04 LTS reached its regular End of Life on April 28, 2017. No more package updates, including security updates, will be accepted to the 12.04 primary archive.
For customers who can't upgrade immediately, Canonical is offering Extended Security Support for Ubuntu Advantage customers, more info about which can be found here.
Select an image
Ubuntu is distributed on three types of images described below.
Desktop CD
The desktop cd allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of cd is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this cd.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead.
- 32-bit PC (i386) desktop CD
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
Server install CD
The server install cd allows you to install Ubuntu permanently on a computer for use as a server. It will not install a graphical user interface.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) server install CD
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead.
- 32-bit PC (i386) server install CD
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
Alternate install CD
The alternate install cd allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations:
- setting up automated deployments;
- upgrading from older installations without network access;
- LVM and/or RAID partitioning;
- installs on systems with less than about 384MiB of RAM (although note that low-memory systems may not be able to run a full desktop environment reasonably).
In the event that you encounter a bug using the alternate installer, please file a bug on the debian-installer package.
There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:
- 64-bit PC (AMD64) alternate install CD
- Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead.
- 32-bit PC (i386) alternate install CD
- For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
A full list of available files, including BitTorrent files, can be found below.
If you need help burning these images to disk, see the Image Burning Guide.
Name Last modified Size Description
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MD5SUMS 27-Mar-2015 00:18 444
SHA1SUMS 27-Mar-2015 00:18 500
SHA256SUMS 27-Mar-2015 00:18 668
MD5SUMS-metalink 08-Aug-2014 03:49 862
MD5SUMS-metalink.gpg 12-Nov-2015 05:49 933
MD5SUMS.gpg 12-Nov-2015 05:49 933
SHA1SUMS.gpg 12-Nov-2015 05:49 933
SHA256SUMS.gpg 12-Nov-2015 05:49 933
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.list 08-Aug-2014 02:12 3.8K Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.list 08-Aug-2014 02:08 4.5K Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.iso.torrent 08-Aug-2014 03:49 27K Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso.torrent 08-Aug-2014 03:48 27K Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.iso.torrent 08-Aug-2014 03:45 30K Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 08-Aug-2014 03:44 30K Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent 08-Aug-2014 03:43 30K Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent 08-Aug-2014 03:45 30K Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.manifest 07-Aug-2014 21:16 43K Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (contents of live filesystem)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.manifest 07-Aug-2014 21:25 43K Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (contents of live filesystem)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.metalink 08-Aug-2014 03:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.metalink 08-Aug-2014 03:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.metalink 08-Aug-2014 03:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.metalink 08-Aug-2014 03:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.metalink 08-Aug-2014 03:49 47K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.metalink 08-Aug-2014 03:49 47K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.list 07-Aug-2014 01:07 87K Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.list 07-Aug-2014 01:05 89K Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.list 07-Aug-2014 20:31 110K Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.list 07-Aug-2014 20:27 112K Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.jigdo 08-Aug-2014 03:49 121K Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.jigdo 08-Aug-2014 03:48 123K Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.jigdo 08-Aug-2014 03:45 153K Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.jigdo 08-Aug-2014 03:44 155K Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.iso.zsync 08-Aug-2014 03:49 1.3M Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso.zsync 08-Aug-2014 03:48 1.3M Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.iso.zsync 08-Aug-2014 03:45 1.5M Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.iso.zsync 08-Aug-2014 03:44 1.5M Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync 08-Aug-2014 03:43 1.5M Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.iso.zsync 08-Aug-2014 03:45 1.5M Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (zsync metafile)
wubi.exe 08-Aug-2014 01:55 2.4M
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.template 07-Aug-2014 01:07 4.3M Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo template)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.template 07-Aug-2014 20:31 4.5M Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo template)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.template 07-Aug-2014 01:05 5.9M Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo template)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.template 07-Aug-2014 20:27 6.0M Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo template)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.iso 07-Aug-2014 01:07 670M Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso 07-Aug-2014 01:05 689M Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.iso 07-Aug-2014 20:31 747M Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.iso 08-Aug-2014 02:12 756M Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso 08-Aug-2014 02:07 758M Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.iso 07-Aug-2014 20:27 761M Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)