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Raspbian-Stretch is a GNU/Linux operating system derived from Debian 9, initially released in August 2017. Raspbian is the most widely used Pi based distribution and the one recommended by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, who distribute their own images of it in 3 flavours, a full version with Desktop GUI and recommended software, Desktop GUI, and a "lite" version without any GUI pre-installed.

Raspbian-Stretch is a GNU/Linux operating system derived from Debian 9, initially released in August 2017. Raspbian is the most widely used Pi based distribution and the one recommended by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, who distribute their own images of it in 3 flavours, a full version with Desktop GUI and recommended software, Desktop GUI, and a "lite" version without any GUI pre-installed.

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Upgrade to Raspbian Jessie

How can I perform an upgrade from Raspbian Wheezy to Jessie?
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point - the easy way

I know how to do it the classic way as described for example by the official documentation at Wireless connectivity. But that needs many different components which must play together and each component must be configured its own way. These are…
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How can I use an external USB sound-card and set it as default?

I've got an external USB sound-card from C-Media running on my RPi3. I can play some recordings using aplay/arecord by specifying the card index and ALSA plugin. However, many other sound files does not play at all, or not as expected. Some other…
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How to permanently disable swap on Raspbian Stretch Lite

I'm at my wit's end; it seems there's no way to tell Raspbian Stretch Lite to permanently disable swap space. Now, it's a bit of an edge case, wanting to keep swap turned off (in this case it's for a Kubernetes cluster, so kubectl doesn't complain…
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Workaround for a wifi bridge on a Raspberry Pi with proxy arp

I want to bridge the wifi interface with the ethernet interface on a Raspberry Pi so any device on the ethernet port becomes a member of the wifi network. Usually this is done by a bridge (OSI layer 2) but on wifi you need WDS (wireless distribution…
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What is the latest sources.list for Raspbian?

Raspbian Repository suggests that Wheezy would be the "official" current suite of the Raspbian distribution. I cannot believe that, though, because I have been using "Jessie" as "stable" instead for the last years, which is the successor of…
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Enabling SSH by default on Raspbian Stretch

I have a Raspberry Pi 1 Model A running an image of Raspbian Stretch Lite. I've noticed that when I power on my pi and allow it to start up, I can't seem to SSH into it from my Mac laptop. First, I have to hook my RPi up to a keyboard and monitor,…
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Automatically Create Hotspot if no Network is Available

I want to automatically create an access point, if there is no network found, so that I can connect to my Raspberry Pi everywhere. If nobody is connected to the hotspot for a while it should search for the networks defined in wpa_supplicant.conf…
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How can I use an init ramdisk (initramfs) on boot up Raspberry Pi?

I need to load driver on early stage booting. For development I use LVM (logical volume manager) so I can easily revert test setups to the default image from a snapshot. For this I have to load the lvm driver before accessing the root partition.…
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How to get touchscreen right click on Raspbian Stretch

I am currently using Raspbian Stretch with a Waveshare 7 inch touchscreen, and I would like to get right click input (preferably with two finger or long touch). There appear to be no solutions for Raspbian Stretch, and I have tried to use solutions…
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ifup and ifdown do not work on raspbian stretch lite 2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite.img

I just installed a clean image of the latest Raspbian Stretch Lite. Specifically - 2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite.img ifconfig shows that my wifi interface wlan0 is detected and up. eth0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 ether…
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How to identify a Pi

I have a stack of five Pis, each of which have a separate hostname and are on the same network. I need to physically identify each Pi from another Pi, perhaps by flashing the onboard LEDs in a recognisable manner. Any idea how I might do this from…
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Configuring `unattended-upgrades` on Raspbian Stretch

I recently upgraded from Jessie to Stretch and received a new version of the configuration file for unattended-upgrades. Oddly, this new version references Debian instead of Raspbian. pi@kegerator:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d $ diff 50unattended-upgrades…
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How to INVERT SCROLLING DIRECTION on trackpad in Raspbian Stretch?

I would like to invert the scrolling direction so that when I scroll down (using two fingers in a downward direction) on my trackpad, the page also moves down (i.e. to content lower down). I did this in Raspbian Jessie previously like this by…
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Why does the SHA256 of Raspbian file image never correspond to the one indicated on the website?

Every time I download Raspbian (last time Raspbian Stretch with desktop) I try to verify SHA256. However, every time the result is different from the one on the website, although I am quite sure the download was successful and without…
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