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Learning Raspbian

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392192
Pages 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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William Harrington William Harrington
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William Harrington lives and works at his family's cattle station, Olga Downs, in northwest Queensland, Australia. He attended university at James Cook University, Townsville. At the age of 20, he established his own company, Harrington Systems Electronics, which sells the NLIS RFID tag reader The Pipe Reader that he designed and manufactures. He also received the AgForce President's Innovation Award in 2005. In 2006, he graduated with honors as a computer systems engineer and received the Queensland Primary Industries Young Achiever Award. Since then, he has gone on to design the uSee remote monitoring system, a revolutionary and low-cost remote monitoring solution. Having a home-based company has become part of a unique diversification strategy for the family and has provided them the opportunity to stay on the land. Due to a never-ending passion for technology, William speaks regularly on many topics, so he will bring a futuristic version of the technology that is possible in the next decade. Since 2011, he has also been a director and programmer for Farm Apps Pty Ltd, developing smartphone and tablet apps that increase farming efficiency. He enjoys travelling and brewing beer at home. William works alongside his wife Hollie, having recently welcomed their young son, Jack, into the world.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Learning Raspbian
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian Getting Started with Raspbian Starting Raspbian An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop Installing Software on Raspbian The Console Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian References Index

Methods of installing software

There are several different ways to install software on your Raspberry Pi. These include:

  • apt-get

  • GUI Package Manager

  • Aptitude

  • Raspberry Pi Store

  • The source

All of these methods, with the exception of installing from source code, use APT and dpkg to install the software package.

dpkg

dpkg is a software application at the center of Raspbian's software package management system. It is a software tool that actually installs a software package from a .deb file.

A .deb file contains three different parts:

  • A Debian-binary file that contains the version of dpkg needed to install the package

  • A control archive that has all the information needed to install the package

  • A data archive that contains the actual software itself

dpkg reads the .deb file and determines whether all of the required software is installed. If the required software isn't installed, it will let you know what the required software is.

APT

The APT is a frontend tool that makes using dpkg a lot easier. It is preconfigured...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon William Harrington
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William Harrington lives and works at his family's cattle station, Olga Downs, in northwest Queensland, Australia. He attended university at James Cook University, Townsville. At the age of 20, he established his own company, Harrington Systems Electronics, which sells the NLIS RFID tag reader The Pipe Reader that he designed and manufactures. He also received the AgForce President's Innovation Award in 2005. In 2006, he graduated with honors as a computer systems engineer and received the Queensland Primary Industries Young Achiever Award. Since then, he has gone on to design the uSee remote monitoring system, a revolutionary and low-cost remote monitoring solution. Having a home-based company has become part of a unique diversification strategy for the family and has provided them the opportunity to stay on the land. Due to a never-ending passion for technology, William speaks regularly on many topics, so he will bring a futuristic version of the technology that is possible in the next decade. Since 2011, he has also been a director and programmer for Farm Apps Pty Ltd, developing smartphone and tablet apps that increase farming efficiency. He enjoys travelling and brewing beer at home. William works alongside his wife Hollie, having recently welcomed their young son, Jack, into the world.
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