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Learning Raspbian

By : William Harrington
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Learning Raspbian

By: William Harrington

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Learning Raspbian
William Harrington
Feb, 2015 | 154 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Raspbian
Learning Raspbian
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian
The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian
The Raspberry Pi
History of the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi hardware
Raspbian
Raspbian components
Summary
2
Getting Started with Raspbian
Getting Started with Raspbian
SD card specifications
Downloading Raspbian
Imaging Raspbian onto your SD card
Summary
3
Starting Raspbian
Starting Raspbian
Raspberry Pi Model A and Raspberry Pi Model B
Raspberry Pi A+
Raspberry Pi B+
Plugging in your Raspberry Pi
Booting your Raspberry Pi for the first time
The Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool
Finishing up
Common problems
Summary
4
An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop
An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop
The Raspbian desktop
The Raspbian filesystem
A tour of the Raspbian desktop
Virtual desktops
Network management with Raspbian
Customizing your Raspbian desktop
Preinstalled software
File management in Xfce
Summary
5
Installing Software on Raspbian
Installing Software on Raspbian
Package management in Linux
Methods of installing software
Using the console
Synaptic GUI Package Manager
The Pi Store
Installing software from source
Installing updates
Other software that you can install
Summary
6
The Console
The Console
Bash
Launching the bash command interpreter
Basic bash commands
The autocompletion of commands
Running commands as root
Moving around the filesystem using bash
Manipulating files
Redirection in bash
Environmental variables
Basic scripting
Text editors
Summary
7
Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian
Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian
Raspbmc
Volumio
ThinBox
PiPlay
Torberry
Kali
Summary
References
References
Chapter 1, The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian
Chapter 2, Getting Started with Raspbian
Chapter 4, An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop
Chapter 5, Installing Software on Raspbian
Chapter 6, The Console
Chapter 7, Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian
Index
Index

Raspberry Pi Model A and Raspberry Pi Model B

The Raspberry Pi A and Raspberry Pi B models are the original versions of Raspberry Pi:

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