Pinebook Software Releases

This page contains a list of all available releases and tools for the Pinebook.

Linux Image Releases

Special thanks to Sunxi community, ayufan, and longsleep for their contributions.

AOSC

AOSC OS is a general purpose Linux distribution that strives to simplify user experience and improve free and open source software for day-to-day productivity. To learn more about AOSC, please visit the official AOSC website.

Note: AOSC is using LZ4 compression algorithm for the downloads, please visit the LZ4 GitHub site for an utility for extracting the archives

Download:

Warning: Possible outdated or not available anymore.

• https://aosc.io/downloads/ (supports the microSD card and eMMC, 8GB or more)

Default credentials
Default user	aosc/anthon

Armbian

Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM boards. They are usually Debian or Ubuntu flavored. To find out more about Armbian and available download options please visit the Armbian ROCK64 site.

Download:

• https://www.armbian.com/pinebook-a64/

Kali

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Kali Linux is an Advanced Penetration Testing Linux distribution used for Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking and network security assessments.

Download:

• https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-arm

Default credentials
Default user	kali/kali

Debian

Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. The forum thread for release can be found here.

Download:

• Debian concatenateable installer images (netboot)

Installation:

• The Readme provides info about concatenating firmware.pinebook.img.gz + partition.img.gz to create a bootable installer image.

Notes:

• Installer offers automatic partitioning and full-disk encryption (LUKS), but only manual partitioning with a single ext4 partition has been confirmed to work.
• Bootloader must be installed separately after installation, before rebooting.
• WiFi driver kernel module must be provided during installation, or a USB network adapter used. (Android USB tethering works, with network driver rndis_host).
• See also: Debian Netboot installer on the 1080P Pinebook under 1080P Pinebook Software Release#Debian

DietPi

DietPi is a lightweight yet easy to setup and feature-rich Linux distribution, based on Debian. To find out more about DietPi, please visit the official documentation. Discuss the ROCK64 build on the PINE64 forum thread.

Download:

• Debian 11 Bullseye (supports the microSD card and eMMC, 4GB or more)
• Debian 12 Bookworm (supports the microSD card and eMMC, 4GB or more)

Default credentials
Root user	root/dietpi

KDE neon

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Warning: The images are unmaintained.

KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 5 desktop environment/framework, Qt 5 toolkit and other compatible KDE software.

Download:

• Direct download latest release build from KDE Neon Pinebook and 1080P Pinebook

Default credentials
Default user	live/live

Slackware

Slackware is a very old, interesting, convenient and easy distribution. Visit the project's website here (https://fail.pp.ua). You can follow the ongoing discussion about Slackware on the PINE64 forum (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9439)

Note: This Slackware build using the LRZ compression algorithm, please visit the lrunzip GitHub site for a decompression utility.

Slackware Aarch64 Miniroot Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

• DD image to microSD card and boot. Highly recommend using Etcher
  • Direct download from developer KRT site and look for slarm64-current-aarch64-base-rootfs-xxxxxxxx-x.x.xx-pinebook-build-xxxxxxxx.img.lrz

Default credentials
Root user	root/password

Slackware Aarch64 XFCE Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

• Only works on 1080P 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook.
• System with a graphical shell
• DD image to microSD card and boot. Highly recommend using Etcher
  • Direct download from developer KRT site and look for slarm64-current-aarch64-xfce-rootfs-xxxxxxxx-x.x.xx-pinebook-build-xxxxxxxx.img.lrz

Default credentials
Root user	root/password

BSD Image Releases

NetBSD

NetBSD Community Build Image [microSD Boot]

• To learn more about NetBSD please visit NetBSD main page
• DD image to microSD card or eMMC module. Highly recommend using Etcher
  • Direct download latest release build from NetBSD by select 64bit - Pinebook
• Instructions concerning enabling SSH can be found here

Default credentials
SSH and TTY user	root/[none]

OpenBSD

OpenBSD 6.6-snapshot, Community Build Image (FVWM2 WM)

• To learn more about OpenBSD please visit OpenBSD main page
• DD image to microSD card or eMMC module (at least 8GB). Highly recommend using Etcher
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/79hpdpehrbbk984/pinebook-2019-11-04.img.tgz.sha256?dl=0 (sha256)
  • https://www.dropbox.com/s/yas1glfvvucb9a0/pinebook-2019-11-04.img.tgz?dl=0 (image)
  • compressed size: 3.6GB
• If you need more information please ping: https://forum.pine64.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=12423

Default credentials
SSH and TTY user	pine64/pine64
Root password	pine64

Android Image Releases

Android 7.x

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Warning: Unmaintained.

Android 7.1 Community Build Image [microSD Boot] by ayufan. It only works on the 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6' Pinebook. Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors. Please use good random IO access performance microSD card such as the Samsung EVO when trying out Android 7.1.

Download:

Note: Please allows some time (around 5 minutes) for the initialization process on the first boot.

• ayufan's GitHub, look for android-7.1-pine-a64-pinebook-x.x.x-xx.img.gz (for microSD cards with 4GB or more)

Android 6.x eMMC

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Android 6.0.1 (microSD to eMMC)

Rootable build, online update (OTA) only works when the build is not rooted. The LCD resolution is 1366 x 768.

Note: The release is for the14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook.

Download:

• Rooted image (for microSD cards with 4GB or more) from pine64.org (776MB, MD5 of the Gzip file C99BF459C6724BA73F12C532E87A8BA5, build 20170605)

Android 6.0.1 (microSD to eMMC)

Rootable build. The LCD resolution is 1920 x 1080.

Note: The release is for the 1080P 11.6" Pinebook.

Download:

• Rooted image (for microSD cards with 4GB or more) from pine64.org (595MB, MD5 of the Gzip file E433A148CEBD743EADE6CAA765331A4B, build 20181001)

Android 6.0.1 (microSD boot)

Note: The release is for the 1080P 11.6" Pinebook.

Rootable build. The LCD resolution is 1920 x 1080. Please use an high performance microSD card for Android. Please ignore the warning message regarding an corrupted SD on the home screen in the upper left corner.

Download:

• For 8GB microSD cards from pine64.org (553MB, MD5 of the Gzip file CD27DF6083E6A4A5E7C8B986EB92FAA7, build 20181001)
• For 16GB microSD cards from pine64.org (703MB, MD5 of the Gzip file 1376AAE8382E96FD7B45B0998A5CD6E9, build 20181001)
• For 32GB microSD cards from pine64.org (867MB, MD5 of the Gzip file B54E7F323B316750654E385B078AEC58, build 20181001)
• For 64GB microSD cards from pine64.org (734MB, MD5 of the Gzip file C8DBC6293EB51E58F91E27364C8C587D, build 20181001)

/e/

Warning: Unmaintained.

/e/OS Community Build Image p [microSD and eMMC Boot] [20190926]

• Only works on 1080P 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook.
• To learn more about /e/OS, please visit the official website
• Please check out this article on the Pinebook /e/ build.
• For thread diiscussion please visit the PINE64 forum
• DD image (for 8GB microSD card and above)
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): 4DC46A4E3ED2B47F4830E96DFCBBC6D8
    • File Size: 685MB

Linux BSP SDK

Download:

• Linux BSP 4.0 from pine64.org (4.67GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 802D7C92D27177CBD17567359F9845A7)
• Linux BSP 3.0 from pine64.org (4.18GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 898ACF446851DF3BE7B643F62CE3CE84)
• Linux BSP 2.0, kernel v3.10 (including GPL compliance header) from pine64.org (6.41GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 2EE11C9AED246C17995493F213A6A6DA)

Android SDK

Android Marshmallow [v6.0]

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (Zip file): 12362D0B63EBF29FC363A50A942346D5
  • File Size: 15.92GB

Mali-400 64-bit Driver

The Mali-400 64-bit Driver, build 20160622

Download:

• Mali 64-bit Driver Download

Other Tools

• Allwinner PhoenixCard Bootable SD-Card Creator
• Allwinner DragonFace V2.2.5 software that will let you edit and modify A64 Android Build PhoenixCard image
  • Direct download at Mega