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arch:arch_on_the_pi [2016/10/07 17:49] – [Arch on a Pi] Julien Deswaefarch:arch_on_the_pi [2020/08/06 21:11] (current) Julien Deswaef
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 Some random notes related to [[http://archlinuxarm.org|Arch Linux ARM]] on a Raspberry Pi. Some of these notes might be turned into their own page one day. Some random notes related to [[http://archlinuxarm.org|Arch Linux ARM]] on a Raspberry Pi. Some of these notes might be turned into their own page one day.
  
-===== Compiling Blender =====+===== Blender ===== 
 +==== Installing from packages on RPi3 ==== 
 +[[https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/blender|Blender is compiled for ARMv8 architecture only for AArch64]]. 
 + 
 +See bottom of this page for the right archive to use at installation: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-pi-3#installation 
 + 
 +Rendering a default file seems to require ''xvfb'': 
 +<code> 
 +xvfb-run blender -b -noaudio untitled_e.blend -o // -f 1 
 +</code> 
 + 
 + 
 +==== Compiling on RPi2 ====
 If it's still not in the repositories, here's a way to compile latest stable Blender for RPi2 If it's still not in the repositories, here's a way to compile latest stable Blender for RPi2
 [[https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/blender|Download these two files]]. And change these two lines from PKGBUILD: [[https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/blender|Download these two files]]. And change these two lines from PKGBUILD:
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 ===== Installing ikiwiki ===== ===== Installing ikiwiki =====
-  * Install Git +Install git and dev tools. 
-  * Install Make +<code> 
-  * <del><code=bash>$: cpan</code></del+$: sudo pacman -Syu git base-devel 
-  * Use Pacman with this[[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ikiwiki/| Aur package]]+</code> 
 + 
 +Install [[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ikiwiki/ikiwiki from Aur package]].  
 + 
 +You'll need 2 extra dependencies from Aur:  
 +  * [[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cgi-formbuilder/ | perl-cgi-formbuilder]] 
 +  * [[https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-rpc-xml/ | perl-rpc-xml]].  
 +Install those first. Compiling ikiwiki takes a while on a Raspberry Pi. Be patient. 
 + 
 +If you want to have images handle by the wiki, you will need also Imagemagick  
 + 
 +Although ikiwiki could be running from any server, I found it easier to run it behind Apache. So be sure to have that installed. 
 + 
 +Create an unprivileged user (here called wiki) who will be editing the wiki: 
 +<code> 
 +sudo useradd -m wiki 
 +sudo passwd wiki 
 +</code>
  
 +Following https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/wikis/ikiwiki-on-arch-linux/
  
 ===== Resizing a partition ===== ===== Resizing a partition =====
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 By resizing (which is safe to run on a mounted disk), we tell the file system to use all the space in the new partition. By resizing (which is safe to run on a mounted disk), we tell the file system to use all the space in the new partition.
 +
 +
 +===== Python UnicodeEncodeError horror =====
 +So your Python script works on your machine. But when you port it to a freshly installed Arch Linux Arm on a Pi, all hell breaks loose as soon as a weird character pops up. Something like this shows up: 
 +<code>UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe9' in position 227: ordinal not in range(128)</code>
 +Well, don't start modifying your Python code (as you said, it does not have that problem on your machine).  It's because the default locale of Arch Linux is ''LANG-C'' and what you want is UTF-8 support. There is many ways to solve this, including forcing Python to use a locale different from the system. But I like to have my systems with similar settings. So just follow tutorials [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale|here]].
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arch/arch_on_the_pi.1475855370.txt.gz · Last modified: 2016/10/07 17:49 by Julien Deswaef