xubuntu-rpi3-desktop-only Files

xubuntu-18.04.2
as of 5-29-2019

Why I did it this way is because uploading large files to sourceforge
if at any time you lose the connection you must start over
the entire upload but if you upload lets say in 100MB parts
you only need to up load the remaining parts this saves hours of waiting 
for the upload to be complete this is all you need to do after you
have downloaded each part to join them together again 

to join all the parts in the original compressed image 

cat xubuntu-18.04.2-alpha2-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img.xz.part* > xubuntu-18.04.2-alpha2-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img.xz


you can use md5sum command to confirm the compressed image is correct

md5sum xubuntu-18.04.2-alpha2-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img.xz

--------------------------------------
MD5SUM of the original file 
ebc179c9e15b2e3e1d5cb87da2eb9131
--------------------------------------
approx 721.5MB


you should have a total of 8 parts
ending with aa-ah


#decompress the xz image file 
unxz xubuntu-18.04.2-alpha2-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img.xz


#sudo apt-get install gddrescue
#sudo ddrescue -D --force xubuntu-18.04.2-alpha2-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img.xz /dev/sdX



================working from official raspbian =====================
#sudo apt-get install gddrescue

#this is nice to see the progress of the flashing to the sdcard
#for years I just used the old school dd command

# if you want to do this from raspbian note the differences below
#debian renamed ddrescue to dd_rescue  and --force was renamed also -f 
#sudo dd_rescue -D -f xubuntu-18.04.2-alpha2-desktop-armhf+raspi-ext4.img.xz /dev/sdX
===================================================================





this is as minimal you can get and have a desktop with xfce
and full use of xubuntu debs

This is xubuntu for the raspberry pi3
which only has the full xfce desktop
with no other apps installed 
no browser but the ubuntu GUI will guide you to set up 
your keyboard language and wifi to keep it easy

from there you need use apt-get to install what you want


this was done built by source by modifying 
scripts then built xubuntu 18.04
which at the time of posting this was not available 
for the raspberry pi3 as an img

I modified this code link below and got it to build xubuntu
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker/
so a very big thanks to --->Martin Wimpress
for his ubuntu-mate I just couldnt wait for xubuntu 18.04
to come out because I needed it now for some code I wanted to test
with webit and the raspberry pi3 if you read this thank you again
for all your quality well written work  


(the reason for even doing this was to have the latest webkit
for the raspberry pi3   I didnt set out to build a port of xubuntu it 
it just happened  because I needed it  for its later versions of packages)


*please use official full versions this was done for my own personal use
but decided to share it there may be others with the same special need

all code was compiled and built on a raspberry pi3

big-bass