raspi:raspi_prepare_raspbian
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Raspberry Pi: Prepare Raspbian
Note: This assumes the previous how-to on preparing the SD card has been covered and Raspbian is already 'installed' on the SD card.
Booting Raspbian
- Simply insert the SD card and power up
- It will take some time, but a Linux Desktop will appear on screen.
- Initial Configuration:
- locale set to US
- timezone changed to Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
- keyboard layout set to US (English)
- Run update
sudo apt update
and upgradesudo apt upgrade
if necessary- if error occurs, most probably problem with the mirror (change to another mirror)
Getting the tools
- Get kernel headers (compiling loadable kernel module)
sudo apt install raspberrypi-kernel-headers
- To be able to compile codes that require sqlite
sudo apt install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
- To have web server with php
sudo apt install apache2 php php-cgi libapache2-mod-php php-sqlite3
- edit
php.ini
to enable pdo support - enable mod_rewrite (create link in mods-enabled from mods_available)
- look for
rewrite
- default path for web is
/var/www/html
- I also want
screen
andntfs-3g
(ntfs with r/w)sudo apt install screen ntfs-3g
Prepare for GUI Development
This is about doing GUI development while running Raspbian on Pi itself.
- install glade (will also get gtk library)
sudo apt install glade
Using Camera & Image Processing
- to access camera, load the Video4Linux kernel module
sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2
- not needed if you enabled camera using Configuration Page
- install ffmpeg stuffs
sudo apt install libavcodec-dev libavdevice-dev
- if going for GTK
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev
- if going for SDL
sudo apt install libsdl1.2-dev
Get some codes
- Get my source codes (e.g. download everything @/home/pi/Work)
mkdir -pv /home/pi/Work && cd /home/pi/Work git clone git://github.com/azman/my1codelib.git git clone git://github.com/azman/my1webapp.git git clone git://github.com/azman/my1apisrv.git git clone git://github.com/azman/my1linuxpi.git git clone git://github.com/azman/my1termu.git git clone git://github.com/my1matrix/my1goose.git
- Obviously, we need
git
for thissudo apt install git
Upgrading Installed Packages
To upgrade locally installed sofware:
- Update apt database
$ sudo apt update
- Upgrade local packages
$ sudo apt upgrade
If packages got held/kept back, simply reinstall those packages:
- Reinstall
$ sudo apt install --reinstall
Upgrading Raspbian Version
To do an upgrade (e.g. I did this to upgrade stretch to buster):
- Modify
/etc/apt/sources.list
and replace the release codenames (e.g. change stretch to buster)- do the same for
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
- Update package list
$ sudo apt update
- Upgrade distribution
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
- Do house cleaning
$ sudo apt autoremove $ sudo apt clean
That should do it!
Making Pi Visible on Local Network
Note: This is already in the default install.
To make Pi hostname visible on local network, get avahi-daemon (default install)
sudo apt install avahi-daemon
- this is part of Bonjour/Rendezvous/ZeroConf multicast DNS (aka mDNS) services
- change hostname as desired
- use raspi-configuration tool
- clients need to support mDNS as well:
- windows need this
- linux require avahi (for slackers, slackbuilds.org got this)
raspi/raspi_prepare_raspbian.txt · Last modified: 2023/08/29 10:43 by 127.0.0.1