Thanks Andy and Alan, for the clarification. This is an experimental system, so I felt there was no long-term harm (it being a short-term installation, anyway) in installing rapsi-config from the raspian archives just to see what it looked like and explore what it could do. Having verified that it really doesn't do anything I can't do just as easily manually (all the things Andy listed and a few more) I will probably take the manual approach in the future.
Enjoy! Rick On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 3:49 AM, Alan Corey wrote: > Right, I wasn't exactly recommending running raspi-config on a non-raspian > system but looking at how it does things and doing them manually. One of the > things I dislike about Debian (I haven't looked at others) is that there's an > ever-increasing hodgepodge of specialized little scripts. If you've been > using it awhile you're probably not in the habit of re-reading documentation > to see if somebody changed how you're officially supposed to do something. > > But raspi-config is a place to look up things like how to boot to a command > line, or how to configure locales or change your keyboard layout. And it's > maintained, unlike some ancient documentation that should be banished but is > still out there. > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 6:17 AM Andrew M.A. Cater <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, at 10:10 PM, Alan Corey wrote: >> > > There are scripts for those, keyboard and language too. Also WiFi >> > > country, I forget what else. Locales is in there. >> > > >> > > Take a look at a recent raspi-config. I think Odroid, maybe the Pine64 >> > > bunch has a generic-ized version of that. Armbian probably does too. >> > > Raspi-config is just a Bash script that uses Whiptail for its menus. >> > > Parts of it are useful on other things. It's on Github somewhere. >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> > Thanks! Alan... >> > >> > So, here's what I found... >> > >> > Immediately after the first boot of the SD card, as root, do the following: >> > >> > #Get the raspi-config utility: >> > wget >> > https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/raspi-config/raspi-config_20200601_all.deb >> > -P /tmp >> > #Install packages it needs: >> > apt-get install libnewt0.52 whiptail parted triggerhappy lua5.1 >> > alsa-utils -y >> > sudo apt-get install -fy >> > #Install the utility itself: >> > dpkg -i /tmp/raspi-config_20200601_all.deb >> > #And run it >> > raspi-config >> > >> > It will give you a bunch of customizations you might want to do. I can >> > personally vouch that you'll need to at least do options (1) change the >> > root password and set up a non-root user, (2) Configure the network, and >> > (4) set localizations (timezone, keyboard, locale, and a few others). >> > >> > The 20200601 version happens to be the latest as of this writing. But >> > just to be sure, you can use the tool itself (option 8) to check for and >> > install any updated version. >> > Easy! >> > >> > Rick >> >> And whoosh - you've created a FrankenDebian and dependencies on a Raspberry >> Pi OS that you don't run.. Raspi-config is a collection of >> shell scripts. Gunnar's Raspberry Pi images are deliberately small. >> >> If you want to reconfigure locale - >> >> apt-get install locales ; dpkg-reconfigure locales >> >> (this last as root / root equivalent using sudo) >> >> Timezone: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata >> >> There are good Debian commands that will work on every Debian system you >> come across :-) >> >> All the very best, as ever, >> >> Andy C. >>
