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How to setup Network Manager on Raspbian
I have found how to get NetworkManager (and systemd-resolved) working on Raspbian 9 (Stretch). NetworkManager is very useful when you need to manage multiple VPN connections with split DNS, wifi ...
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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 setup Network Manager on Raspbian
This page ranks quite highly in search results for people looking for networking help on Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, the steps detailed here are out-of-date as of Feb 2020.
At that point in time, to ...
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How to install Real Time Clock (RTC) on Raspbian?
Here is how I made it work.
Almost everything here needs to be done as super-user, so use 'sudo bash' or put sudo in front of everything (if not already shown).
The following basic steps are needed:
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How to disable Wi-Fi Dongle sleep mode
Clarifications first
Did you try to keep a ping command running on the Raspberry (ping your router IP for example)? Does it stop after awhile? Or does it work but you can't connect to SSH somehow?
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How to send audio to BOTH headphone jack and HDMI simultaneously?
Not comming up with a complete answer but some thoughts on that matter.
Let's have a look at the hardware side: schematics unfortunately not helpful for the Pi B+ and not even available for the Pi2, ...
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Copy multiple partitions to one .img file
There is no magic in the image file. It's simply a bit-for-bit copy of a chunk of the sd card. What you want to do is figure out exactly where the second partition ends, and copy from the device file ...
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Automatically uninstall all non-essential packages
While I fully agree with @goldilocks that being obsessive about the number of installed packages is pointless, there's one useful trick I want to share.
All packages in the system basically fall in ...
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Debian Jessie or Raspbian Wheezy for Raspberry Pi 2
Since Pi 2 has a ARM Cortex-A7 CPU it does not depend on the hard float modification anymore.
It never depended on it. The SoC has hardware floating point registers; not all ARM processors do, and ...
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SSH to Pi through putty Connection Refused (Raspbian Wheezy)
Raspbian jessie does have ssh enabled by default, I don't know if wheezy have ssh enabled by default. What I recommend doing is:
Go to the terminal
And type: sudo raspi-config
(source: raspberrypi....
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Is there some kinda serial number available from OS level?
In C# Mono I'm doing this:
private string GetRpiSerial()
{
CommandSync("cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Serial | cut -d ':' -f 2 > /home/pi/serial.txt");
using (var sr = new StreamReader("/home/...
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How do I change the Desktop wallpaper from the cli
None of the above worked for me. So here is the solution for Raspbian Stretch
pcmanfm --set-wallpaper yourfile.jpg
The file can be on any path that is available to read by the user. Here I have ...
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Why there is a collabora.list on my raspbian wheezy source repo?
Collabora has improved software for the foundation under contract. They implemented Hardware acceleration inside Webkit (for Ephiphany) and did work on a Wayland desktop called Maynard.
It makes ...
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Until when does Raspbian Wheezy receive *security* updates?
Wheezy in general has been handed over to the Debian LTS team as of 25 April of this year (2016). The official answer for LTS support is May 31, 2018 (https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160425.en.html)...
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How to complete upgrade from wheezy to Stretch?
I do not recommended to upgrade Raspbian from Wheezy (Debian 7) to Raspbian Stretch (Debian 9) and skip Raspbian Jessie (Debian 8).
Fyi: table of Debian releases
Option 1: upgrade from 7 to 8 to 9
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What is the difference between Raspbian Wheezy and Raspbian Jessie?
A default of systemd is the biggest change under the hood but, as someone who views this hydra with suspicion, I can reassure you that it is uninstallable from Jessie so that you can go back to (the ...
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How to setup Network Manager on Raspbian
Chien's answer will create a non persistent change and dhcpcd will restart after after reboot. The clash will give the device two IPs per interface.
A persistent solution would be:
sudo apt install ...
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Automatically uninstall all non-essential packages
In his answer, goldilocks wrote “‘non-essential’ is hugely
subjective”, and this is essentially correct. However, the package
maintainers have their own idea of how important a package is, and this
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Cannot mkdir unless sudo is used
For those with similar problem, make sure to run raspberry pi config tool. In there you will find a menu that allows you to expand your partition to fill 100℅ of the available space. Otherwise, you ...
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How to send audio to BOTH headphone jack and HDMI simultaneously?
I would love to be able to do same thing as well. At least I try to contribute to this trend with some ideas hoping in eventual cooperative development.
What comes over my mind is, that there maybe ...
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Is Raspbian Wheezy Compatible with the Pi Zero?
The last official Raspbian Wheezy image was 2015-05-07 and official images moved to Jessie afterwards. This was 5 months before the Zero was released, so didn't contain the firmware for the Zero or ...
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Why there is a collabora.list on my raspbian wheezy source repo?
As the directory would suggest, those are the list of "sources" from which apt-get will pull applications from. etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list lists the official repos, and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/...
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Raspberry Pi B+ can't install node-red
The website for this notes on the installation page specifically for the Raspberry Pi that the project was included in the "Jessie" release distribution around November 2015. Did your sudo apt-get ...
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Auto run program on boot as root
As you are using Raspbian Wheezy I am assuming you are using the default init system provided by systen V init rather than the systemd that is used in Jessie and most other GNU/Linux distributions ...
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Problems in upgrading pip packages
Three Suggestions
Use Virtualenv for development and custom applications, System python is for installed programs
System python is better suited for system utilities which are built against the ...
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Disabling USB ports
Each USB host controller in Linux exposes a setting called authorized_default, which controls the state of any new connected devices. Setting it to 0 makes all new devices disabled by default:
for ...
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Disabling USB ports
sudo sh -c "echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/buspower"
Will disable the USB ports but also the LAN port.
sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/buspower"
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How do I change the Desktop wallpaper from the cli
I've been trying to find a solution to this for ages - with all other attempts failing - and finally came up with a solution what works!
Caveat: This is using Buster on a RasPi4, and I've not ...
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2.8" TFT Touchscreen with pygame script from console
If calibration shows the right coordinates, but pygame does not, then the most common cause is the SDL library version needs to be updated to 1.2. This is what bit me for a while as well with the same ...
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soft-float debian wheezy and debian wheezy
For earlier raspberry pi models (not ARMv7+), you will want soft float.
Otherwise known as armel
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-armel/current/images/versatile/netboot/
This ...
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