Which download do I use to install ubuntu on a MacBook Pro Laptop?

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Which download do I use to install ubuntu on a MacBook Pro Laptop?

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Tyrone Tucker (blk007t) said :
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Which download do I use to install ubuntu on a MacBook Pro Laptop?

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said :
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The same one everyone else uses for installing on a PC. Either the Desktop "Live" one or the Alternate CD. Both should work.

There are a few gotches, but mostly they are documented on the wiki:-

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=macbook&titlesearch=Titles

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Widget Phreak (wijphreak) said :
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I don't know if I'm the 1st person to realize this but, I downloaded the Feisty Fawn liveCD installer today and tried it out on my macbook (booted the livecd... didn't do a hard drive installation).

It worked perfectly. Sound works, wifi works, screen rez isn't quite right but i'm sure i could fix that with some configuration.
the F Keys work (for volume brightness etc)

Pretty much everything I could think to try worked with Feisty Fawn on my Macbook... without doing anything other than booting off of the LiveCD.

This is the 1st linux livecd i've tried on my macbook that has worked pretty much 100%.

All other LiveCDs i've tried have either not had sound support... or not had wifi support. Feisty Fawn had both.

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Widget Phreak (wijphreak) said :
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Update, even the Apple remote and infrared port work.

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wZ (whof) said :
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mmm,

Strange when I boot, and do ifconfig, I have a eth0/eth-av/lo, runnig iwconfig tells me no wifi adapters where found ? Trying feisty fawn on macbook

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