Arch on a Pi

Things related to Arch Linux ARM.

Compiling Blender

If it's still not in the repositories, here's a way to compile latest stable Blender for RPi2 Download these two files. And change these two lines from PKGBUILD:

arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
…
make -j4 # -j5 needs 48 GB of RAM while -j9 needs 64 GB

into

arch=('armv7h')
…
make -j2

This will get it compiled on the Raspberry Pi 2 itself. It will take a while ( couple hours ).

Installing server

As root

pacman -Syu nginx php-fpm

Start and enable nginx and php-fpm

systemctl start nginx systemctl start php-fpm systemctl enable nginx systemctl enable php-fpm

Check if it is serving the default pages, but it should be.

Change /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user http;
server {
listen 80;
# watch out for the root location here, must be accessible from the user http
root /srv/http;
location / {
# add index.php to this line
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on php-fpm.sock
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
}

Installing ikiwiki

Install Git

Install Make

<code=bash>$: cpan</code>

Use Pacman with this Aur package