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the bun to touch Developer Preview was released to the public earlier today and you might be wondering how you can get it on your own devices I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is how you install the Ubuntu touch Developer Preview on a nexus 7 the first thing you need to do is to back up your device you're gonna lose your pictures and everything in this so make sure you have a backup of everything also you will need a TB setup on your computer and your device's bootloader will have to be unlocked once you have those two things ready you will need to boot to the bootloader plug the device in type an ADB reboot bootloader and the device will reboot from there we will flash twrp a custom recovery which will allow us to flash Ubuntu from the terminal type in fastboot flash recovery and the name of the recovery image this will take just a second and then you will need to boot into the recovery mode once the recovery comes up it's time to back up the device hit the backup option swipe and wait this will take a few minutes and once it completes you will need to offload the backup to an external drive the next step is to wipe the device from the main screen of TWRP select wipe factory reset and swipe your finger this will take just a few seconds or maybe a little longer if you haven't reset your device in a while then it's on to the real stuff from Canonical's page you will need to download two files you will need to download one specifically for the group or the Nexus 7 and the main Ubuntu image he's a big file so this could take some time if I should still be in the recovery mode so once those are downloaded select Advanced ADB sideload and then swipe your finger in the terminal and your computer type ADB sideload and the name of the first recovery image the one specific to the group or the Nexus 7 and wait this one should not take too terribly long once it finishes you will be met with the option to reboot the system hit back select ADB sideload once again and swipe back on your computer in the terminal type in ADB sideload and the name of the second image the general phablet image hit enter and wait this one is the large image it's almost 500 megabytes and it will take some time to transfer over the device and into flash so wait this one out for a few minutes and once it does finish hit reboot system the device will take several minutes to reboot and once it does you will see the Ubuntu welcome screen swipe from right to left access the main screen and you now have Ubuntu for tablets installed on your Nexus 7 it may take some time for the install to finally complete it'll be a little laggy at first and then it should speed up and be pretty fun to use the great thing about this entire process is that it's just as easy to go back to Android as it is to flash Ubuntu simply download the stock image from Google boot back into the bootloader and flash the stock image back to the device and in no time it will be back to Android just how you were before if this video helped give us a thumbs up below and follow the channel for more videos like this also be sure to follow us on your social networks of choice I'm Taylor Martin and I will see you next time