Raspberry Pi - Installing the Essentials

To make use of Raspberry pi it is required to have certain tool arsenal installed in your pi. This post covers what i commonly use.

1. Updating Existing Packages
2. AMP Stack
3. Python 2.7 (Yes i have not updated to Python 3 yet. Because laziness)

I will make this quick and short. So lets get started.

Raspberry Pi - Setup Using Raspbian Image

Apart from doing setup using NOOBS. We have an option of writing the Raspbian directly on the SD Card. This post covers how to do the same on Windows.

Actually I find this quite simple and easy to use as compared to NOOBS. It is just a two step process.
1 - Get Official Raspbian Image
2 - Install and Use Win32 Disk Imager to write to the SD Card

Raspberry Pi - Setup using NOOBS

I never saw myself writing this post. But i have done this so many times that i now think i should just put it out there, just another setup post. 

NOOBS is short for New Out Of the Box Software. This is where all the beginners of Raspberry Pi should start with. The easy installer can be downloaded as a zip file or using a Torrents from the link.

It has two version offline installer and an online installer. If your raspberry pi is connected to the internet the online installer can be used that takes a very minimum space on the SD Card. The entire selected OS will be downloaded from the internet connection. If your raspberry pi is not connected to the internet than an offline installer should be used that comes pre-loaded with Raspbian and LibreELEC. 

Raspbian is one all the beginers should start their Raspberry Pi Experience with. It is the official support OS by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. More info can be read from here. It is extensively covered by the raspberry pi foundation website and makes no sense to reiterate the information here.

There is a way to load the raspbian image directly on the SD Card without using the NOOBS but i will get to that in a later post. (Hopefully)

The setup is a 3 step process.

1. Step - 1 Format the SD Card
2. Step - 2 Load the NOOBs
3. Step - 3 Installing Raspbian