Raspbian Jessie-Lite is similar to Raspbian Jessie, but has significantly less components pre-installed, e.g. without the X-server and its components. Jessie-Lite is best used for Raspberry Pi's that will be used with a headless setup.
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Differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite
What are the differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite?
What's better for a Owncloud server: Raspbian Jessie or Raspbian Jessie Lite?
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Cannot connect to raspbian jessie lite but to raspbian jessie
I've installed Raspbian Jessie with dd to my Pi1-B. Everything works fine and I can connect to it via ssh. I do not need any graphical system and want to keep the machine as simple as possible. Therefor I've downloaded and installed Raspbian Jessie…
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How do I upgrade Raspbian Lite to Raspbian PIXEL?
This question assumes a system has up-to-date package lists and packages via apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.
With the release of Raspbian PIXEL Raspbian no longer uses the standard LXDE desktop but the new PIXEL desktop. (This has somewhat…
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Automount various USB stick file systems on Jessie Lite
I want to be able to automount USB sticks fat32 and ntfs formatted on the fly, like hot-plugging without rebooting the my Raspberry Pi 2. I have ntfs-3g installed on jessie-lite.
Putting the UUID in fstab is not an option because I'd have to find…
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Should running VNC on Jessie Lite "just work"?
I'm attempting to connect to my Pi via VNC for the first time.
I performed the initial set up of the Pi in a headless fashion using a direct connection to my laptop (via an ethernet cable). I didn't use a monitor or keyboard, and had to fiddle…
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How to start Xorg while showing splashscreen?
I'm creating a simple device with a Raspberry Pi and a touchscreen display connected to it.
On boot, I want to show a loading image (a simple gif or jpg) while X is starting. Then a chromium-browser instance will be started in kiosk mode showing my…
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User and password
I just installed Raspian Jessie lite date 4-10-17. All articles state the username and password are "pi" and "rasberry". These do not work. What is the correct user and password?
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Jessie in Kiosk mode on the Pi Zero, the proper way
I have looked far and wide, and also read a lot of the (mostly marked duplicate) questions already posted here. But I can't seem to find a conclusive answer for my situation.
I want to run a browser window in kiosk mode on a Pi Zero, running…
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Raspbian Jessie Lite Boot Delay - Long Wait for DHCPCD
I just downloaded and installed Raspbian Jessie Lite v2016-02-09 on my Raspberry Pi Zero. The DHCPCD process slows boot time by ~40 seconds. I do not plan to connect to the internet using my Pi. How can I disable DHCPCD / networking?
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Autorun browser kiosk with Jessie Lite
I'm working on setting up a kiosk and I'm trying to decide with OS to install on the Pi. I know a full Raspbian install will work, but this site will be hosted locally and updated only a couple times per year. So, I don't want to use a full distro…
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How many cores does the Pi 2 model B use by default?
How many cores does the Pi 2 model B use by default when executing a command? The reason I am asking this is my friend told me to use the suffix -j4 when I ran the code sudo make. He told me that it would use all cores, so I assumed it didn't use…
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Setting Subnet Mask with DHCPD Conf
I'm using Raspberry PI 3 with Raspbian Jessie to make an industrial datalogger product.
For obvious reasons I need to tell the Rasp to use a static IP configuration, in order to make it work in other networks. After googling I found out that the…
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Transfer a file from Raspberry to Mac
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with Jessie Lite (terminal only) and I have to transfer a file which is on my Raspberry to a Mac.
How can I do it?
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Set static IP and stop DHCP on Jessie Lite
I've been trying for a few days now to set a static IP for my Pi but have so far been unsuccessful.
I have a Model B Revision 2.0 (revision code 000d).
I'm running Jessie Lite released 2016-05-27.
Previously I used to set an IP in…
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Raspbian Jessie does not boot after installing a kernel with exported symbols
I'm trying to set up a pair of Raspberry Pi 3 to work with the NRF905 transciever following this guide. I'm using the same raspbian version that was used in the guide (Raspbian Jessie Lite 2016-11-25) Everything works fine when I do the apt-get…
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