Posts tagged raspberry-pi

Network shares are weird

Posted | nas nfs raspberry-pi

I've been messing around with NAS solutions for a couple weeks now, because why not? After a while of initially fucking around with various solutions, I settled on samba, because it's a major standard. It's easily supported, and supports integration with Linux Mint's integrated file explorer. That was actually a major factor when deciding on the protocol; if I can avoid messing with fstab and avoid manual mounting, I'd be really happy.

Specific package updates on Raspberry Pi/Raspbian

Posted | raspberry-pi raspbian

The Raspbian package repos are, in my experience, extremely slow with updates. Ninja pre-dates version one, Python3 is still stuck on 3.5.2, and a lot of other packages are outdated. Installing from source isn't always easy, because they get new dependencies, and suddenly you have accidentally missing packages and compiling fails. So here's a list of some install guides for various tools. Note This is currently targeting a version of Raspbian that doesn't support 64 bit.