layout: post title: "Raspberry Pi Getting Started Guide" date: 2015-06-27 22:31:00
To create a disk image of the Raspbian OS on a micro SD card from a mac, follow instructions here.
The username and password for Raspbian “squeeze” are:
$ Username: Pi
$ Password: raspberry
To start the Raspbian GUI, run the command:
$ startx
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sudo apt-get update
This will update the repository on the raspberry pi with locations of software and general software updates.
To search for software by name type the following command
sudo apt-cache search
Example: sudo apt-cache search chromium
To install software by name
sudo apt-get install
Example: sudo apt-get install chromium
To uninstall software
sudo apt-get remove
Example: sudo apt-get remove chromium
To find out the ip address of the raspberry pi, run hostname -I
.
apt-get install x11vnc
x11vnc -display :0 -noxdamage -ncache 10 -ncache_cr
To start a video, use the command the following command. The vvv
is for verbose mode.
More information on VLC command line interface here and more advanced commands here.
vlc -vvv my_file.mpg
To play a video with VLC thru a ssh session, use the command:
cvlc --quiet --fullscreen --no-osd --loop playlist.xspf --x11-display :0
sudo shutdown -h now
or sudo halt
(more info)sudo shutdown -r now
or sudo reboot
(more info)scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination
.scp username@b:/path/to/file /path/to/destination