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Differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite
If I understand this and that right, the lite distribution is just a Minimal image based on Debian Jessie without the X-server and its components installed. Meaning it uses less space on the SD-card ...
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How do I set my Raspberry Pi to automatically update/upgrade?
Instead of a manual cron, you can install unattended-upgrades, which is useful to ensure the latest kernels are installed. It's mostly designed for security.
apt-get install unattended-upgrades
There ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspbian Jessie - How to run fsck at boot?
I have run sudo touch /forcefsck but what else I have to do?
That's stuff that applies more to wheezy; jessie may (or may not) be backward compatible with it, but you might as well do it the new way:
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How do I set my Raspberry Pi to automatically update/upgrade?
In its default configuration, unattended-upgrades is broken in Raspbian Buster. It won't install crucial updates for the kernel and other software. Your options are:
Recommended Option:
Install and ...
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Adjusting the Brightness of the Official Touchscreen Display
The driver for the screen provides an interface through /sys/. To turn the screen on you can use the command:
echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/bl_power
and to turn it off:
echo 1 > ...
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Setup Raspberry Pi 3 as bluetooth speaker
I have been on this project after while (to help my friend doing their paper for graduating) and find the online project doing just fine (although the pi processing the audio is quite lagging the pi, ...
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Auto-start chromium on raspbian jessie - 11/2015
For Raspbian (Jessie), this solution worked for me:
Create a new .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/, e.g.
sudo nano ~/.config/autostart/autoChromium.desktop
Then add the following:
[Desktop ...
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How do I configure my sound for Jasper on Raspbian Jessie?
According to the ALSA Wiki, under the title that reads "How to choose a particular order for multiple installed cards", it states the following:
Which card is card number 0, 1 and so is by default ...
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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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Time and timezone issues on Raspberry Pi
Here are some suggestions.
Use the raspi-config utility to reset the timezone even if already you used a different tool to set it.
sudo raspi-config
Manually set the time to be somewhat accurate. ...
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Setup Raspberry Pi 3 as bluetooth speaker
Here is an alternate solution that doesn't rely on PulseAudio:
https://github.com/lukasjapan/bt-speaker
Install on raspbian as root with:
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukasjapan/bt-...
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Auto login in Jessie. How?
Enter the command sudo raspi-config.
Scroll down to Boot Options and select Console Autologin. Then exit the configuration menu and reboot.
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Trying to turn off X11 in Jessie
Systemd users "service bunlde" named target, to achieve different system states while booting the system. You need to change the desired state of the system, from graphical to multi-user.
Run
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Turning off LEDs on Raspberry Pi 3
For the Raspberry Pi 2 you can add the following lines to /etc/rc.local:
sudo sh -c 'echo none > /sys/class/leds/led0/trigger'
sudo sh -c 'echo none > /sys/class/leds/led1/trigger'
sudo sh -c '...
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What is the difference between Raspbian Wheezy and Raspbian Jessie?
I'm sure there are lots of differences but none which would make you choose wheezy over jessie.
jessie is the more up to date and will be better supported. You should be using jessie.
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How to remove thermometer in Raspbian 8 jessie PIXEL
I don't think that should be happening. There is an explanation of the thermometer icon here updated last month, and it says it comes on halfway at 80°C, when the CPU should begin throttling due to ...
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How to use Stretch/testing packages?
I've adapted the instructions here to our case.
First, create the following files in /etc/apt/preferences.d:
jessie.pref:
Package: *
Pin: release a=jessie
Pin-Priority: 900
stretch.pref:
Package: ...
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Failed to create MMAL component b'vc.ril.camera': Out of memory
This error was resolved when I disconnected and reconnected my camera module.
Somehow my camera module must have been wiggled loose when I was working with it and the Pi was not able to detect the ...
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alsa-base conf file missing
Turns out the file is now called alsa.conf and is found in /usr/share/alsa.
Changed the lines
defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.card 0
to card 1 and that's me up and running. Looks like others have ...
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Remove SSH warning about default password
Method 1 (still recommended, even if you don't like it):
Change the password for the user pi
Method 2:
Remove the file /etc/profile.d/sshpasswd.sh (sshpwd.sh for stretch)
It contains the code ...
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Pi using a random MAC address after every reboot. How do I stop this behavior?
Seems like it's a feature of network-manager...
I installed networkmanager and random mac shows up, so I uninstalled it and problems solved:
sudo apt-get remove network-manager
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Make permanent change in the routing table
Is there a way to automatize this process so I won't have to manually do it every time I turn on the Raspberry?
That's not needed if question #2 can be solved - and it can...
Is there a way to ...
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How to prevent autologin of GUI?
This can easily be done with raspi-config.
Run the command sudo raspi-config
Select Boot Options
Choose Desktop
Exit the prompt and restart the RPi
Edit:
To address you wanting to do this from the ...
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"Failed to connect to non-global ctrl_ifname" when running wpa_cli reconfigure
This worked for me
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
and add the following lines
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/...
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Force IPv4 address
Raspbian Jessie no longer has a file called /etc/sysctl.d -- it's now a folder of the same name.
According to the read-me file in the same folder, README.sysctl, it basically says that any .conf file ...
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Pi using a random MAC address after every reboot. How do I stop this behavior?
Open a Terminal window and run:
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
If in the file you see any mention of a MAC address remove it from the file. Then exit the file with saving.
To set a fixed MAC address ...
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Raspberry Pi out of disk space
Here's what works for me. You can try this set of commands to purge unneeded package files:
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
It won't work a miracle, but sometimes gets me a couple hundred ...
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