I'm having difficulty understanding Raspberry Pi operating systems. I'm fairly familiar with desktop Linux and the terminal, but operating systems on SD cards are new to me.
I'm going to use the Pi as an audio player only. I'm planning to use something like Squeezeplug on the Pi, and LMS on my desktop PC so I can stream music from my PC to the Pi (the Pi is located in another room).
My question is this: Is Squeezeplug all I need to install for what I want to do? Or am I required to install an operating system first (like Raspian)? Or said another way, is Sqeezeplug the desktop equivalent of a complete operating system with useful programs included (like Linux Mint on the desktop), or is it more like the desktop equivalent of a suite of programs that is installed after installing the OS (like Libre Office on the desktop PC)? Thanks.
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Re: Question about operating systems...
You will need to install an OS first - the other programs use them as a 'base' to run the device.
Raspbian should be fine.
Raspbian should be fine.
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Re: Question about operating systems...
From the Squeezeplug site:
Take a look at the video on their site which tells you exactly what's needed and what you need to do.
Its a system tailored for a specific usage i.e. Squeezeplug, the kernel (OS) is in the img file which you are required to copy to an SD card.The installation is based on the Raspbian Installer as a minimal installation from scratch. The kernel and all packages are up to date. There is no X-Server or other graphic things installed. The intention of SqueezePlug is to run a headless Media-Server and Player. So SSH is installed and activated. All you have to do is this:
1. Download, unzip and burn the sd-card
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Take a look at the video on their site which tells you exactly what's needed and what you need to do.
Re: Question about operating systems...
All software that comes as a disk-image will completely replace what is already on the SD-card. And according to the youtube-install-tutorial for squeezeplug this is how you install it.
Squeezeplug is meant to run as a headless server so it will probably not come with any desktop environment.
But it seems that it is based on the official rasbian (or wheezy soft-float) images so its very probably that you can install whatever you want later.
Squeezeplug is meant to run as a headless server so it will probably not come with any desktop environment.
But it seems that it is based on the official rasbian (or wheezy soft-float) images so its very probably that you can install whatever you want later.