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 26-Mar-2015 19:18 444
MD5SUMS-metalink 07-Aug-2014 22:49 862
MD5SUMS-metalink.gpg 12-Nov-2015 00:49 933
MD5SUMS.gpg 12-Nov-2015 00:49 933
SHA1SUMS 26-Mar-2015 19:18 500
SHA1SUMS.gpg 12-Nov-2015 00:49 933
SHA256SUMS 26-Mar-2015 19:18 668
SHA256SUMS.gpg 12-Nov-2015 00:49 933
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.iso 07-Aug-2014 15:27 761M Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent 07-Aug-2014 22:45 30K Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.iso.zsync 07-Aug-2014 22:45 1.5M Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.jigdo 07-Aug-2014 22:44 155K Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.list 07-Aug-2014 15:27 112K Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.metalink 07-Aug-2014 22:49 47K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-amd64.template 07-Aug-2014 15:27 6.0M Alternate install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo template)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.iso 07-Aug-2014 15:31 747M Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.iso.torrent 07-Aug-2014 22:45 30K Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.iso.zsync 07-Aug-2014 22:45 1.5M Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.jigdo 07-Aug-2014 22:45 153K Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.list 07-Aug-2014 15:31 110K Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.metalink 07-Aug-2014 22:49 47K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-alternate-i386.template 07-Aug-2014 15:31 4.5M Alternate install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo template)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso 07-Aug-2014 21:07 758M Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent 07-Aug-2014 22:43 30K Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync 07-Aug-2014 22:43 1.5M Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.list 07-Aug-2014 21:08 4.5K Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.manifest 07-Aug-2014 16:16 43K Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (contents of live filesystem)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-amd64.metalink 07-Aug-2014 22:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.iso 07-Aug-2014 21:12 756M Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.iso.torrent 07-Aug-2014 22:44 30K Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.iso.zsync 07-Aug-2014 22:44 1.5M Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.list 07-Aug-2014 21:12 3.8K Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.manifest 07-Aug-2014 16:25 43K Desktop CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (contents of live filesystem)
ubuntu-12.04.5-desktop-i386.metalink 07-Aug-2014 22:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso 06-Aug-2014 20:05 689M Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso.torrent 07-Aug-2014 22:48 27K Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso.zsync 07-Aug-2014 22:48 1.3M Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.jigdo 07-Aug-2014 22:48 123K Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.list 06-Aug-2014 20:05 89K Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.metalink 07-Aug-2014 22:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.template 06-Aug-2014 20:05 5.9M Server install CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (jigdo template)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.iso 06-Aug-2014 20:07 670M Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (standard download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.iso.torrent 07-Aug-2014 22:49 27K Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (BitTorrent download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.iso.zsync 07-Aug-2014 22:49 1.3M Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (zsync metafile)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.jigdo 07-Aug-2014 22:49 121K Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo download)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.list 06-Aug-2014 20:07 87K Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (file listing)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.metalink 07-Aug-2014 22:49 46K Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
ubuntu-12.04.5-server-i386.template 06-Aug-2014 20:07 4.3M Server install CD for 32-bit PC (i386) computers (jigdo template)
wubi.exe 07-Aug-2014 20:55 2.4M