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Cannot connect to raspbian jessie lite but to raspbian jessie
From https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/
As of the November 2016 release, Raspbian has the SSH server disabled
by default. You will have to enable it manually. This is ...
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How do I upgrade Raspbian Lite to Raspbian PIXEL?
From a fresh install of Jessie Light, and after an apt-get update you can do:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg xinit
The PIXEL GUI:
sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods
...
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Automount various USB stick file systems on Jessie Lite
After alot of research I could fix my Problem with usbmount:
Adding ntfs to usbmount
Install usbmount with sudo apt-get install usbmount.
Install NTFS driver package ntfs-3g with sudo apt-get ...
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User and password
The username is "pi" and the password is "raspberry", you have misspelled the word "raspberry" by missing the p.
If you still have issues, I would try re-downloading, re-formatting, and doing it ...
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Should running VNC on Jessie Lite "just work"?
The error message is quite clear. You are missing a X enviroment , so install it :
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all \
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev libx11-6 x11-common \
x11-...
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Transfer a file from Raspberry to Mac
Run the command on your Mac:
scp [email protected]:/path/to/file .
And the file will be transferred to your current directory.
Assuming your Raspberry Pi is accessible through its default hostname ...
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Install git Raspbian Jessie lite
It sounds like your package manager is out of date. Before installing, it's usually wise to update it by running the command:
sudo apt-get update
Once that's done, you should be able to install it ...
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How many cores does the Pi 2 model B use by default?
This depends on the command (and note this applies to all multicore systems, not just the Pi 2). Not all tasks can be run in parallel. By analogy, consider a simple math problem
3 * 4 + 5 =
None of ...
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Set static IP and stop DHCP on Jessie Lite
Setting a fixed IP address on a recent Jessie is easy:
nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf
and add at the bottom (i.e. below nohook lookup-hostname):
interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.1.10/24
static ...
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Should running VNC on Jessie Lite "just work"?
Yes And No
Installing a vnc server will also get you an x server.
(Both the tightvncserver and vnc4server packages provide xserver).
This is enough for you to see and interact with graphical ...
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Differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite
Size-wise lite is 1GB smaller (300MB vs 1.32GB)
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Raspbian Jessie Lite Boot Delay - Long Wait for DHCPCD
sudo systemctl stop dhcpcd.service should stop dhcpcd.
It is also possible to set Raspbian to not wait for the network on boot (see raspi-config).
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Setting Subnet Mask with DHCPD Conf
I had a similar problem to set a Subnet Mask 255.255.254.0 for static IP 192.168.161.154 in /etc/dhcpcd.conf. How I address this is by adding /23 at the end of the static IP address,
interface wlan0
...
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Determine whether Jessie-Lite version is with GUI(Pixel) or not
One possible way would be to check if the raspberrypi-ui-mods package is installed, which should give a good clue on whether the Pi has Pixel installed. This is possible by running for example apt ...
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Automount various USB stick file systems on Jessie Lite
The answer by Untermoser is correct, but it will break some of usbmount functionality.
Because he is using Systemd units to spawn processes to mount (to enable NTFS), the environment variable $...
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Autorun browser kiosk with Jessie Lite
I finally managed to find a good guide to get Jessie Lite up and running without booting to desktop as default.
You still need to run Xserver to managed the windows, and you can use LightDM to manage ...
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How to kill LightDM?
Get to a terminal (SSH or local) then run sudo stop lightdm or sudo service lightdm stop.
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VNC problem on Mac and Pi 2. No .xsession file
The problem is you running Jessie-Lite. it similar to Jessie(full) but without a window manager, X-server and its components. Those are mandatory for VNC to run :)
Believe me, try same VNC setup on ...
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Make Pi connect to multiple Wifi Connections (roaming)
You can enter multiple stanzas to the file like this:
network={
ssid="Your_SSID"
psk="WPA_PASSKEY"
id_str="Home Wifi"
}
network={
ssid="Work_SSID"
psk="WPA_PASSKEY"
id_str="Wifi at work"
...
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Why is Jessie Lite headless but not running SSH by default?
Raspbian Lite release notes from 25th November 2016:
* SSH disabled by default; can be enabled by creating a file with name "ssh" in boot partition
That answers the question I think. :)
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Transfer a file from Raspberry to Mac
Techraf's answer is good, and what I would do myself. However it won't work if SSH is not enabled. Here are a couple of other alternatives. You could use a service like Dropbox. or what used to be ...
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How many cores does the Pi 2 model B use by default?
Separating a given task to be automatically processed by multiple CPUs, also called automatic parallelization, is generally a complex task. For some tasks (like compiling source-code) this is somewhat ...
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How do I upgrade Raspbian Lite to Raspbian PIXEL?
Remove the LXDE packages:
# apt-get purge lxde
If it still gives you LXDE or it fails to start, change the autologin section in the lightdm configuration file at /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. Remove ...
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User and password
just faced the same problem. everything written before is right, BUT : my installation had an english keyboard layout, which means, to input my "raspberry" pw i had to press "raspberrz"
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Raspbian Jessie does not boot after installing a kernel with exported symbols
There are a couple of problems.
The dtbs in the current raspberry pi foundation firmware package are incompatible with that kernel.
The cmdline.txt on the current foundation images uses root=PARTUUID=...
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Installing pivpn on RaspberryPi b3
curl -l http://install.pivpn.io | bash
Are you sure that is the command you used? It does not make sense since it gives 301 error (permanently moved). Using -L instead of -l works for me. It ...
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Cannot connect to raspbian jessie lite but to raspbian jessie
You can enable SSH by placing a file called "ssh" at the root of the boot partition. You would do this right after you flash the image to the SD card and before you place the SD card in the Pi.
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Raspbian Jessie (Debian 8) not displaying startup services and messages
I no longer see startup messages and the services notification ("[OK]", "[Failed]", etc.) when using service start/stop.
This is possibly because Debian/Raspbian changed the init system in version 8 ...
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