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How to Easily Configure WiFi in Raspberry Pi

Any version of Raspberry Pi can be very easily configured with WiFi access. Coupled with ssh or vnc, it allows you to manage your Pi remotely. Here is the simplest way I could think of, illustrated by a screenshot and detailed below. Once your Raspberry Pi boots up, you will get to this shiny screen. […]

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Safest way to Update and Upgrade Raspbian Wheezy (Raspberry Pi OS)

There are plethora of instructions on the web to update and upgrade Raspbian and they work too, under normal conditions. However as Raspberry Pi is increasingly being used for Mission Critical tasks, it is important to adopt a procedure which won’t leave you with broken packages or worst, a un-bootable Operating System with your data […]

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How to remove Squeak and Scratch from Raspberry Pi: Raspbian Jessie and Wheezy Distro

Raspbian Jessie and Wheezy distribution includes Squeak and Scratch. While these can be helpful educational tools for students which provides a gentle introduction to programming, it doesn’t have much use for others. The following instructions will remove both Squeak and Scratch from your Raspberry Pi (Raspbian distribution). It saves 92.7 MB and 1.15 MB respectively […]

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How to remove Wolfram Language and Mathematica from Raspberry Pi: Raspbian Jessie and Wheezy distro

Raspbian Jessie and Wheezy distribution includes Wolfram Language and Mathematica. While this can be helpful for students, it doesn’t have much use for others. The following instructions will remove both Wolfram and Mathematica from your Raspberry Pi (Raspbian distribution). It saves 658MB in Jessie. sudo apt-get remove wolfram-engine Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree […]

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Single line command to install PHP5, MySQL, Apache2, XCache, PHP-Pear on Raspberry Pi

Installing LAMP on Raspberry Pi is very very simple. It takes a single line to execute on terminal / console.