Category: How To’s

Before one can access Ubuntu desktops remotely, one must enable remote access on the Ubuntu desktops… to do that, the steps below should be a great place to start… Remote access allows anyone with account and access to connect and manage devices remotely from across the room or locations around the world. This is true…

1 Put the Raspbian SD card into your computer If you don’t have Raspbian installed, go ahead and install it. Make sure the SD card with Raspbian is in your computer. Mentioned here: How to install Raspbian Stretch on the Raspberry Pi 2 Navigate to the boot directory You’ll have to locate the boot directory,…

pimoroni-dashboard On Raspbian, you can download the pimoroni-dashboard and install your product by browsing to the relevant entry: sudo apt-get install pimoroni (you will find the Dashboard under ‘Accessories’ too, in the Pi menu – or just run pimoroni-dashboard at the command line) If you choose to download examples you’ll find them in /home/pi/Pimoroni/phatbeat/. Pirate…

The easiest way to manage installing, upgrading, and removing software is using APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) from Debian. If a piece of software is packaged in Debian and it works on the Raspberry Pi’s ARM architecture, it should also be available in Raspbian. To install or remove packages you need root user permissions, so your…

Adding A New Desktop Shortcut Create a new text file called yourname.desktop in the /home/pi/Desktop/ directory, e.g. /home/pi/Desktop/yourname.desktop It should contain the following: [Desktop Entry] Name=My Name Comment=My application which does this Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.xpm Exec=/usr/bin/leafpad Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Terminal=false Categories=None;   Name – The name you want displayed Comment – Your comment Icon – A file to…

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ Install NTFS RPi Support   $ rsync $ sudo apt install rsync Gadmintools – GADMIN-RSYNC GAdminRsync is a C/GTK+ graphical user interface for the rsync Client and Server. https://mange.dynalias.org/linux/gadmin-rsync $ sudo apt-get install gadmin-rsync Run Gadmin-Rsync $ sudo gadmin-rsync Desktop Shortcuts [Desktop Entry] Name=Gadmin-Rsync Comment=Rsync GUI Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.xpm Exec=sudo gadmin-rsync Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Terminal=false Categories=None; Adding…