Questions tagged [debian]
Debian is an operating system that is based on GNU/Linux. It was previously recommended by the Raspberry Pi Foundation as the standard distribution, but Raspbian is now being recommended.
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No audio output Raspberry Pi3 (Raspbian-stretch)
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The below is for Raspbian Jessie and does not work for Stretch
Any help on how to go about getting bluetooth to work with Stretch would be appreciated...
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fswebcam - every other attempt results in device busy
I am using fswebcam on a debian image on a rpi3 with a logitech webcam. Fswebcam works great... when it works. I've plugged in a powered USB to make sure it was not a power issue of some sort, but ...
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SNES emulator for Raspberry Pi 3b / Debian 9 (stretch)
Is there any SNES emulator that will work on a Debian 9 (stretch) based Raspbian system?
SNES9X is missing the libjpeg8 libraries which don't seem to exist in the latest Debian release.
ZSNES doesn'...
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libjpeg8 on Debian 9 (Stretch)
I have huge problems getting the snes9x emulator to run on a Raspberry Pi 3b with the Debian 9 (Stretch) + Pixel desktop.
It all boils down to libjpeg8 (libjpeg.so.8 library) missing. This library ...
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Entrusted Certificates installation
I have a very noob problem with my Raspberry Pi 3b (all updated to latest stable version available). I want to use it to automate some scripts I've written in R that run smoothly on my Win10 machine ...
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Which capabilities do I need to give my binary (or user) to use GPIO?
Which capabilities(7) do I need to give my binary or user to work with GPIO? Is it CAP_SYS_RAWIO?
I would like to avoid sudo for giving admin rights to a whole process. Capabilities seem like the ...
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Error when installing Gdebi core
I have tried to install the gdebi core in the termial but this comes up: T
he following packages have unmet dependencies:
gdebi-core : Depends: python3-debian but it is not going to be installed
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How do I make a desktop shortcut for rdesktop?
I want know how to make a shortcut for rdesktop, the remote desktop client?
I installed it with this command:
sudo apt-get install rdesktop
I searched in the path /usr/share/applications/ but I see ...
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Edimax EW-7811Un WiFi not working with RPi2 on cold-boot
I use a freshly installed Volumio (based on Debian) instance on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1 equipped with an Edimax EW-7811Un USB device to get WiFi. Power is supplied from a HifiBerry AMP+ sound ...
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How do I prevent the screen from going blank only during certain hours of the day?
I am running Debian on my Pi and I'm using it for a magic mirror. I originally wanted to just prevent the screen from being blank after 10 minutes and keep it on 24/7.
So I opened /etc/lightdm/lightdm....
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Unaccounted for 16MB RAM. vcgencmd and free showing different RAM available
I'm running Debian Wheezy on a Model B+ which has 512MB of RAM. I've set start_x=0 and gpu_mem=16 in /boot/config.txt and the command vcgencmd get_mem arm && vcgencmd get_mem gpu is showing an ...
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Retrieve default sshd_config file
I updated Raspbian from Jessie to Stretch. During this update process I kept my existing sshd_config file and didn't update to the new one.
I'd now like to see the changes which come with the new ...
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HTTP 500 Error - Debugging??
I've been troubleshooting my RPi and I keep getting an internal 500 error in my errors.log for a script written in python. I actually get 2 errors in the logs, wondering how I would go about fixing ...
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Error on Raspberry Pi says 'Read-only file system'?
For reference, this is the project I'm talking about here https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror
bash command being referenced:
bash -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/...
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Cannot Load Library "./pxcore.so" to autorun a python script on boot using systemd
I want to run a code at startup but I am getting this error below. The script works when running in python, but I am unsure how to allocate permissions or where to make a path to the pxcore.so file so ...
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Unable to install mongodb 3.4 on Pi 3
I have been trying to install the latest version of mongodb on my Pi 3. I currently am running the latest version of node (8.0.0) and am running Raspbian lite - Jessie (8).
I have been following this ...
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Debian Jessie (Raspberry Pi) Install Postgres 9.6
I'm having difficulty installing Postgres 9.6 on my Raspberry Pi running Debian 8 (Jessie). I've tried two paths:
According to these instructions:
Add a pgdg.list file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d ...
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Creating Alexa Start Up File
I've installed AlexaPi onto my Pi 3 running Debian. I currently have to open 3 terminal tabs and run 3 commands to start Alexa. I'm trying to create a start up file so these load on boot.
I've tried ...
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"Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname" when running wpa_cli reconfigure
I am using a Raspberry Pi 2, running Debian Jessie, and I have a problem with my Wi-Fi connection, after setting my /etc/network/interfaces:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
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Segmentation Fault on mplayer and mpv
I'm trying to run mplayer or mpv on my Raspberry Pi, but even after multiple apt-get removes and even apt-get install --reinstalls, I'm still getting the annoyingly undetailed Segmentation fault error ...
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www-data (NGINX user) cannot access file
I am running Debian Jessie with pixel. I have a file located at /home/pi/robotAI/static/sqlite/robotAI.sqlite which I need NGINX to access. NGINX runs as www-data and normally when I run the following ...
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deepstreamio - Unable to locate package deepstream.io
I am trying to install deepstreamio in my raspberrypi by following the tutorial here but cannot get it to work. Basically I do:
sudo apt-get install -y deepstream.io
and this is what I got:
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Configure a device with spi ( Pi Zero )
I am looking for how I can configure a kernel devices ports,
I have a MAX3421 usb host shield and I found and compiled the kernel driver for it ( http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/usb/host/...
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Connected to RPI3 via SSH, no internet access
I am running Debian on my laptop, and Raspbian on my Raspberry Pi 3.
I am connected (via an ethernet cable, no router in between) via ssh to the raspberry, but when I try to access the internet via ...
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How do I know if I'm on Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora?
I'm following this guide to set up Home Assistant on HASSbian on a Raspberry Pi 3. Then it throws this at me:
If you’re on Debian or Ubuntu, you might have to install the packages
for arp and ...
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Weird behaviour of ALSA with both paplay and vlc
Jack sound works well on my headless Debian Raspberry with omxplayer and pretty much any file.
However, alsa-based programs output a buggish sound and regularly fail. Here is a (maybe) interesting ...
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issue with upgrading Debian Jessie (MINIBIAN distro)
I'm trying to use the MINIBIAN distro as a minimal OS for my raspberry pi 3. Which as far as I know is based on Debian Jessie.
I tried to use
apt-get upgrade
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IPtables 'nat' filter problems
I'm trying to do some wireless stuff on my raspberry pi which is running Raspian (Debian 8).
However, I get this error:
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:557 kmod_search_moddep() could not ...
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How to configure Raspberry pi 3 for RTC PCF8563
I am using RTC PCF8563 module with my raspberry pi 3.I tried to configure RTC clock by using command sudo hwclock -w,but every time restart i am getting old clock time of shutdown.
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Impossible to update and upgrade Raspberry Pi 3
I am working with a Raspberry Pi 3 and I got a problem with these commands :
sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get upgrade
I got this output for the error :
W: Failed to fetch
http://...
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tiny RPi image for updating rootfs
I have an RPi raspbian-based project that I need to be able to provide full updates of the rootfs for the user to install. I'm considering a second "recovery" partition which would run a highly cut-...
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install opencv on raspberry Pi 3 and create Mat vector in opencv in linux
I am writing a code for object detection and coordination finding in OpenCV. In windows, everything is done and the program is working wit no problem, but I need to move it to Linux and run OpenCV in ...
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Connect laptop Ethernet with fixed IP directly to Pi, keep Internet up and and running through Wifi?
The laptop runs Debian Jessie. I have set up Ethernet with manual IP to talk to the Pi. Wifi connects via DHCP to my local router and Internet. When Ethernet is unplugged, all is fine, I can browse ...
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Cannot install programs
I noticed today that several packages were missing from the Raspbian repositories (I'm on Raspbian Jessie, and I used sudo apt-get update&&sudo apt-get upgrade before everything).
What is ...
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cannot ping link-local address from other subnet when defaut gateway route is seted
i have a problem with my route table i dont know why it doesnt work.
I have two test cases, i did draw a network map for each case.
currently i cant resolv the goal.
testcase-1 network map
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What libraries do I need to write a desktop application for Raspbian with Visual Studio "C++ for Linux" and remote GDB Debugging?
So I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B ("Pi") that I run Raspbian on. I found this tutorial and I've managed to connect to my Pi from Visual Studio and run the example program that was included in the ...
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How to allow a program with a high utilization of the processor to run for a long time
I'm running a python script which uses OpenCV an ffmpeg for video streaming on RPI 2 (os is raspbian Jessie). The script is
camera = cv2.VideoCapture(self.camera_id)
command = "ffmpeg -re -f ...
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Using standard Debian repositories/pagackes with Raspbian
Is it safe to use standard Debian repositories with an Raspbian installation?
The reasons are the following:
I'd like to use some software which is only available in backports and there is no ...
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How to add raspberry pi / raspbian distro specific build-deps to a Debian package
I'm one of the developers on the Motion project.
We are trying to merge the popular motion-mmal fork used by a lot of Raspberry Pi users back into the main project's github repository.
To build with ...
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How Can I Emulate An x86 CPU on a Raspberry Pi with Qemu?
NOTE: I am aware that this question has been asked before HERE, but after having followed that question step by step, troubleshooted on my own and having done plenty of research on the internet to try ...
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Is there a way to install "true" debian on a Raspberry pi 3? [duplicate]
I've read that in contrast to older Raspberry Pis, the Raspberry Pi 3 is a true armhf system, and one can use "regular" debian.
How would on do so practically (setting up bootloader etc.)
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Unable to install systemd on debian 7
I am following the link [ packages.elastic.co/beats/apt stable main ] to install systemd on my raspberry pi b+.
When I try the command
$ sudo apt-get -t wheezy-backports install systemd
It gives ...
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Partition Format
I am new to Linux and RaspberryPi, but i hope someone will help me.
I have installed Raspbian on raspberryPi. But i have some specific requirements on partition file system. Unluckly i did not get any ...
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Command to find source files for apt-get install locations - specifically libasound2-dev
Just downloaded and installed the libasound2-dev package using apt-get install
My gcc compile command now references alsa/asound.h correctly
But I just want to have a look at all the source files ...
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u-Blox SARA and ModemManager
I have a u-Blox SARA-U270 device connected to a Raspberry Pi 3 via UART GPIO pins, that I am trying to use for a 3G connection as a backup. I would like to manage this via NetworkManager/ModemManager ...
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RaspberryPi.Net Libary LCD Display
So my problem is, that we want to control a LCD (HD44780) Display with our Raspberry Pi Model B V1.1. The Libary seems to have a support for it. But there only seems to be one example in the whole web....
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Minimal Navigation for Chromium Kiosk
I am running a lightweight Raspberry Pi web kiosk intended to provide public access only to our library website. However, I need a way for users to navigate back, forward and home without having full ...
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raspbian + libavcodec + which source repository
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 which is running Raspbian (Noobs 1.9.2).
I'm able to install the libavcodev-dev package with the following command:
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev
It seems libavcodec ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 On-Board WiFi Antenna on Debian Jessie
I have Debian Jessie 8.4 running on my Raspberry Pi 3 (download the latest Raspbian image, flash that onto an SD, boot the Pi off it, resize the filesystem with raspi-config, put the SD back in my ...
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Running Debian (Debian, not Raspbian) on a Raspberry Pi 3
The original Raspberry Pis had an ARM11 core which used the ARMv6 architecture, and most distribution's ARM hardfloat ports require at least ARMv7-A, the reason for Raspberry Pi-specific distributions ...
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