Linux

The Raspberry Pi 4 has now been released offering up to 4GB of RAM! All of the horsepower required for an excellent lower power, docker host. However, there are currently issues undergoing work which prevent docker from running on the only Rasbian image currently available for the Pi 4 – ‘Rasbian Buster‘. Details of these issues can been found here on the GitHub thread – https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/709 Current Working Solution Fear not, for there is a simple way to fool your docker installation and successfully getting it to run on the Pi 4....

There are a number of ways that you can run a python or bash script at system start but I am about to show you possibly the easiest way, using crontab. First you need to make that your script is executable and can run unattended. Then you need to login as the user your wish to execute the script as and edit the crontab file: crontab -e If this is your first time editing the crontab file, you might be asked which editor you wish to use – I chose nano....

I recently spent 30 minutes figuring out how to upgrade to python 3.7 and subsequently pip version on a fresh install of Debian 9. I ran into a number of issues doing this so I though that I would put this quick post together to make this a little bit less complicated for anyone else trying to this. This post relates specifically to python version 3.7.3. Although the generic commands should also apply to earlier versions, but your milage may vary....