When trying to install Budgie 25.04 with manual option no partition can be selected and formatted
Hi @agingskier!
Strange…
I’ve never encountered this problem, even though I systematically use “Manual partitioning” to keep control of what I’m doing.
It has to be said that I prefer to prepare my partitions with GParted from the live session, its interface and graphical representation being more user-friendly all the same.
Give it a try.
Thanks, I originally created all partitions with GParted. After that I try to do fresh installs with new versions to get rid of all the acumulated clutter. With version 24.04 the install with “Manual partitioning” worked like a charm. This time the installer does not accept to select any partition. I have one for /boot/efi, /boot, /, and /home. Neither /boot, /, or /home can be selected and formatted.
This really sounds like a new issue that Canonical needs to be made aware of.
Can I suggest in the live session run the following in a terminal to report it:
ubuntu-bug ubuntu-desktop-bootstrap
Started Budgie 25.04 in try mode, opened terminal and entered your suggested command.
It collected information and maybe sent the error report. But I got a message “no package found matching ubuntu-desktop-bootstrap”.
In the meantime I tried to “apt upgrade” to 25.04 and messed up the system. It seems very complicated to report a problem, so I give up and go back to 24.04 which perfectly.
@fossfreedom Same result for me the other day with ubuntu-bug language-selector-gnome:
Package language-selector not installed and no hook available, ignoring.
@agingskier Maybe your ISO is simply corrupt or the key has been flashed incorrectly: I’ve installed 25.04 several times without a problem, and again this morning — I’m using Etcher.
grrr … bug with ubuntu-bug …!
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Always possible to have a corrupt ISO. I always used good old “dd” command like so: “sudo dd if=/home/bernhard/Downloads/ubuntu-budgie-25.04-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdf status=progress”
Never had a problem with this, but I will download the ISO file again and use Etcher instead to create the USB stick.
My understanding is that this one will be better: 
sudo dd if=/home/bernhard/Downloads/ubuntu-budgie-25.04-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdf bs=4M conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress && sudo sync
I went through combinations. New ISO download,
create USB with dd command = no luck
create USB with dd command and additional options (bs and conv) = no luck
create USB with Etcher = no luck
Well, I had enough! Waiting for next Release.
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Thanks for all your tests, @agingskier!
I don’t understand why you didn’t succeed, but it doesn’t matter: 25.04 is only a transitional release.